HIYA!

Spring is here and with it comes the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the trees. And loads of ass kicking rail road workers! This week I did some work on my Mei Feng crew for Malifaux. Stay tuned for an Easter egg at the end. 😉

Mei Feng is a Master with an affinity towards heat, steam and metal. She’s known for making all kinds of hardcore constructs out of rail road and train parts. On top of her magical prowess she’s pretty sick in melee. With moves like Jack Hammer Kick, and Tiger’s Claws she’s a lot of fun to play with.

Emberlings are spirits that occur naturally in Malifaux. They’re made of fire, coal, and gum drops. This was a great model to practice my fire painting skills. I chose to go with an orange flame to tie him back to the orange accents on the rest of the crew.

Rail work is a dangerous job in Malifaux and sometimes accidents happen. When a laborer looses a limb, Mei Feng has been known to patch them up with all new “parts”. I especially liked painting the sore areas of flesh around the bionic parts. That’s gonna need some ointment!

Boy, these Archanists sure do like their gamin. I really like the design of these models. They’re so different from other gamin and even more so from each other. Painting them was super easy. A little dry-brush, and a couple washes and they were done.

Now up to bat, the Rail Golem. When I first saw this model unpainted I thought “meh”. Now that it’s all painted and sexified I’m really diggin’ it. Again I used a very simple technique for the metals (mostly Washes and dry-brushing) but the results are very eye-catching. Once all the metals were done I took some extra time with the blues and oranges to add visual interest.

So me and my family painted Easter eggs this Sunday.  Your guess is as good as mine as to what comic book character inspired this. I told you there’d be an Easter egg at the end of this post. 😀 Peace out!