Malifaux Title Masters

Next i’m going to tackle Shenlong, Sandeep, and their shared model the four winds golem. They look like really fun models to paint, so im excited.

For their bases, I did Sandeep and his crew on these premade temple bases from micro art studio. At some point I ran out of ideas for custom bases, and I thought these looked pretty cool.

For Shenlong I made up some bases with bamboo mats. And I hate them. I plan to redo the whole crews bases, but thats a project for another day, so I will crack on for now.

The golem will need a micro arts base, but im going to add on a little big of bamboo mat to make it match both crews.

Sandeep has this special effect that is going to cover most of the base, but some will peek through, so I am still going to use one of the base inserts. I have to cut off some of the textures on the top in order to make him sit flat.

For the Golem, I will also have to shave off some of the bits in order for it to have a nice place to sit.

For the bamboo mats, I started by cutting the ends off of a few tooth picks, and then sizing them into smaller pieces. I then glued them together side by side. Its kind of a paint to work with them at this size, I think next time I will make them bigger before gluing and then trim them after.

Then I just trimmed them down, and for Shenlongs base, I glued it inside a normal 30mm base, and for the Golem, I tripped it down to fit inside this little recessed area.

I put some sand in around the mat for Shenlongs base, and I also went in with a knife and cut some little slashes across the bamboo to make it look more like real bamboo which has little sections to it. After that I primed them all black.

I gave the temple parts a base coat of a sandy brown to make them match the ones I already have. For the bamboo, I use a more neutral brown. It all got a quick dark brown wash, which looked good on the bamboo but it kind of left pool marks on the stones. I fixed it with a quick overbrush of the original color. I drubrushed both with a paler version of the original color, and they were all done.