Malifaux Title Masters

The wind golem is a big chunky model, and its got a lot of texture to it. I decided to base boat it with a greyish blue to make it look like wind. After that I did 2 layers of drybrushing, up to a pretty bright blue. That gave the model a bit of a dusty look, so I just went in and added some edge highlighting with white. I was pretty pleased with the result.

The rest of the model is a few sections of metal, so I based coated them with a darkish metallic, and then added some nuln oil. I was going to add some highlights, but the art show it all being pretty dull, and I wanted the body to be the part that stood out, so I stopped there.

For Shenlong, I started by doing the flames. The art has them being very orange, so I started by base coating them a pale gray. Then I did 2 coats of yellow so that it had some good coverage. Then I added a few layers of orange highlights.

For the outfit, the art has most of them being orange, but some of them are more of a cream color. I couldn’t make sense of where the orange should stop and the cream should begin, so I decided to just make them all orange. I started with an orange-brown base coat, and then worked up to a brighter orange. The orange paint I have does not cover well, so this took kind of a long time, but I think it came out okay.

It was also tough to do his moustache cuz its super tiny. I had to touch up his face a few times after, but it came out okay I think.

And finally we have Sandeep. He is the one that I am most likely to actually put on the table, so I spent a bit of extra time on him. I started with a medium blue base for all of the magical effect. I then drybrushed it up to almost white. I added some white highlights to it, but I was a little more deliberate about it than what I did on the Golem.

I have always had a hard time painting medium toned skin. It always either comes out looking too black or too white. I decided to try to push the shadows a bit darker on this one, and then bring them up to a brighter highlight, and I think it worked out pretty well.

In the art, his shirt is purple and has a white design across the whole thing. I’m for sure not doing freehand, so I decided to just highlight the shirt normally and try to give it a bit of a shiny look. Im still not great at doing textures, but I think I got it most of the way there.

I also have videos explaining the lore of all of these characters and I keep forgetting to add them! Here is the episode on Shenlong and Sandeep, and you can find all of the other masters in the same playlist on the channel.