Malifaux Title Masters

Next up I decided to tackle the Pandora and Colette box since I was working on a video on Colette’s backstory. My Pandora crew has a cobblestone base with some tentacles coming up out of them, and I added a green glow underneath the models to represent the fact that they are not what they appear to be. Colette is a stage performer, so I did wood floors with a fancy carpet over the top. I will need to replicate these bases for the new models, and find a way to combine them for Dorian Crowe who belongs to both crews.

To make the wood floors, the first problem I have to tackle is the fact that Malifaux bases have a lip. For some basing techniques, this makes the process much easier, but for some it is kind of a nightmare.
Depending on what im making, I will sometimes use a bit of polystyrene or card to fill the lip and bring the base flush with the edge. Here, I am actually just using I piece of an old unit card to serve as a guide for the proper size I need the base to be.
I used a compass to cut out the right size circle, and then used stirrer sticks, cut in an offset pattern, to make a floor pattern.
I later realizes that I made my Colette bases so long ago that I actually didnt use this method, I actually scored lines into some material to make the wood pattern. But it kinda looked terrible so im going to stick to the new way.

When I had decided to try to make carpet, I considered a bunch of different techniques. The Star Theater is one of the more popular and fancy establishments in Malifaux, so I wanted the carpet to be fittingly gaudy looking. I found some decorative paper in a craft store, but it had gold design which I though was too gaudy. So I just painted over it.
I cut the paper into semi circles, and then glued them to pieces of card with a little overhand to act as edging for the carpet. I them painted over the gold with some red paint, and painted the trim black. Then I just slapped it on the bases and it was good to go.

For the Pandora bases, I used a green stuff world roller to make the pattern out of air drying clay. I 3d printed a little cookie cutter to cut the clay into the correct size, but I must have used the wrong ones cuz they ended up a little small. I put in some green stuff around the edges to fill the gaps. I know Gerry will be sad, but Milliput is hard to come by in the US so I treat it like the precious substance that it is.
I then primed based with a medium to dark gray, and drybrushed with a blueish gray.

For the hybrid base, I just did the same processes as above, but on a bigger base. I decided to make it look like a sidewalk with a step that leads into the theater. Once I had that all assembled, I used the airbrush to make some green glowy patched, and I had all of the bases done.

I forgot to take WIP pics of the painting process, but it was a pretty simple paint job. I mostly used dry brushing to highlight, except on Colette who I used layering cuz I wanted to have a bit more control over the shadows and highlights on her dress.