Malifaux Title Masters

Toni Ironsides is my favorite character in Malifaux. Queen T can do no wrong, and if you say anything bad about her, I will fight you.

All that said, he crew is on these kind of plain cobblestone bases, cuz I put her together a long time ago. Anya, the other master in her box, is so new that I haven’t based up her crew yet. Id like to put her on railroad bases since shes a rich rail magnate. The three drudges that they share will, as always, go on 2 tone bases.

For the rail bases, I used some coffee stirrers and cut them into shape so they would fit in the lipped bases. I have these styrene I beams that Im going to use for the rails, since railroad rails are closer to capital I shaped than just a flat rail. I positioned some of them so that the model would be standing in the middle of the tracks, and some where the tracks are off center.

For the cobbles, I stuck some greenstuff on the bases, and then used a sculpting took to make some irregular shapes. I then rounded out the meeting points so that all of the “cobbles” dont seem too perfectly shaped, and ran a rock over the top to give a bit of texture.

For the hybrid bases I one did part cobblestones, and the other side I added railroad ties.

I primed everything black. For the cobbles, I based them in a dark gray, and then drybrushed up to a light gray. Its probably better to add more interesting colors to cobbles, but I need them to match the plain old ones, for now.

I did the rails in metallic, and the ties in a wood color, and hit them with a dark brown and a drybrush.

In my head, the rocks inside the rail tracks should be black. I did some research to figure out if this is a real thing, and I couldn’t find an explanation. I couldn’t even find many pictures where the rocks were black unless all of the rocks in the area were black. But thats how they look in my head, so thats how im gonna paint them. Sometimes, you have to paint to be representative, not realistic.

The paint scheme was pretty straightforward. The drudges have work clothes on, so I did some pretty heavy washes and light drybrushing to get a dark and worn look.
Im still bad at painting black skin in spite of the fact that ive gotten a lot of practice at this point. Its hard to capture the shininess of skin without making dark skin look pale. I try adding red into the mix to make it look more natural, but I still haven’t gotten it down.

Anya is looking all fancy and professional. Watch out, she will cut you.

I had to get these models done quick because I was getting ready for a tournament. Fun fact, I ended up only playing Toni’s original version, so I never touched any of these models.

Also fun fact, Anya has never really showed up in the Malifaux story, so I have not made a video on her yet. Hopefully one day soon. But Toni’s story is one of the best, so check it out.