Wednesday 9 September 2015

Good McMorning

Back again, now with some lovely picture updates.

After many sessions of 'suggesting' that Emma puts a post up, she is still hesitant (shocking I know!) so in the mean time I shall pop up some of her current WiPs.

First up we have old mate McMorning him self. The good old unscrupulousness Scotsman who is the head of the Guilds morgue:

Sunday 6 September 2015

Malifaux Mumblings


Hello all.

New to Malifaux here, thus, as per most of my whims I've opted to create a blog.

A few months ago my girlfriend (Emma) opted to pick up some Malifaux nurses (due to her being a nurse) to model and paint up. I thought the models quite nice, but very fine (coming from the GW world, anything actually in scale looks needle thin...) but didn't look into the game.

Flash forward a few months. Myself and Emma opted to go have a squiz at a newly opened hobby store in our area-ish. It is called The House of War and if you are in the Melbourne (Australia) area I would suggest to go have a look. An amazing set up and very helpful fella (Allan) running it, there was also a friendly pooch wandering around hankering for pats, which in my book, is always a bonus.

Anyway, there was a somewhat large lot of Malifaux stuff in stock, thus grabbing Emma's attention. I also had a look and a few of the more steam-punky/clock work looking fellows which got my hobbiest itch going full steam. We managed to talk Allan (well he talked us into it) having a trial game. I simply watched while he ran Emma through the basics. She was rocking some of those baller Death Marshalls, while Allan was lurching onto the streets with some Undead Belles and the loathsome Madam Sybelle.

After watching a few rounds, I found the card mechanic amazing, coming from a world of D6's and to a lesser extent D20's, the ability to mitigate a crap draw with a card from your hand is beyond awesome!

So, 30 minutes later, my self and Emma walked out of the store with a Malifaux Rulebook, 2 starter sets and the 2 RPG sets in hand.

I opted to pick up Hoffman and his wonderful quintet of clockwork contraptions:

All the robots.
I've currently started work on converting the Guardian.

Emma opted to keep going with the morbid hospital theme (also heavily attributed to the zombie chihuahua) and picked up McMorning and his posse:
Much Nurse, all Chihuahua

That is really all for now as we madly model away. I will endeavour to get some WiP's up of my stuff and some completed pictures of the Emma's models (she works oh so very fast) if she lets me.