At Adepticon this year Wyrd had a small number prerelease third edition kits for Malifaux. Some were repackages of old kits with new cards, but a few were all new models. I couldn’t help myself, and even though I don’t (until now) play Resurrectionists I picked up the von Schtook box.
Albus von Schtook
I went with purples and green as the primary colors. I also decided that since von Schtook seems like a slash-and-stitch kind of guy, his crew should be speckled with blood of grime.
Research Assistant
His (now free to hire, in M3E) totem is the unnamed Research Assistant. He seems appropriately scrawny.
Anne Lovelace
Anna Lovelace already existed, but has been reimagined as the von Schtook henchman. The new pose is fairly static, and doesn’t really fill the 40mm base. Model-wise, she’s the weak link in this box.
Undergraduate (hammer)
Undergraduate (spikes)
Undergraduate (stovepipe)
The minions are Undergraduates. I like the three distinct poses, but I’m not quite sure about the widely varying weapon appearance. I wish all three had the cylinders on their backs, so there would be a common theme between them.
The Flame Bearer is next in line from the new Relicblade Kickstarter. He’s got a fun beard and eyebrows.
Flame Bearer
I’m not sure how he keeps his pants so clean while adventuring in the Volgelands. Maybe laundry is easy when you can magic yourself a basin of hot water.
Relicblade’s latest Kickstarter is starting fulfillment. One of the new factions is the Lostwood Enclave. Half of the Lostwood models were previously part of the two-player starter, but half of the models are new.
Arboleth Sentinel
The Arboleth Sentinel is Relicblade’s take on the treeman. I decided on a highly weathered gray look, using Secret Weapon’s acrylics. I had a hard time getting my highlights to look right, so I cheated and just drybrushed. The textures really lend themselves to it.
Wild Elf Pathfinder
I’m generally not a huge fan of sculpted smoke like on the Pathfinder, but it’s used to good effect to allow a dynamic pose while maintaining a solid connection to the base.
From time to time I’ll reach into the hobby vault to feature models painted before I started this blog.
Over the years I built a couple of objectives for 40k. They’d probably work for any scifi setting in a pinch.
Barrel on side objective
This and the next are pretty simple applications of a Tamiya WWII oil drum kit with a few 40k flourishes. Nothing too exciting, but it gets the job done.
Standing barrel objective
The last one is the exciting one of the bunch. I did this one for a campaign involving my Dark Eldar, on a planet with some latent Necron action. I had purchases a bag of random bits, from which I found some Necron parts to assemble into this vaguely interesting shape. The orange and black matches my Dark Eldar. My thought is that it’s a Dark Eldar power pack activating some Necorn artifact found on the planet surface.
