Year of the Rat - January Part 2

Part One can be found here

It was a Friday night after a hellish week of work that I found myself sharing the flat with my girlfriend and 3 of her friends. Not wanting to intrude (and to get some space) I took over the study area and decided to make up for all the hobby I had missed over the week.


I think the doubling up on cats help define them, as individually the cats are smaller than the rats which didn't look right to me. Gluing them to their bases was the only option I was comfortable with, as I couldn't find a suitable point to put drill a hole to pin the model.


All the models here are pinned to their base, with the exception of the 3 Stolen who had teeny tiny legs and I didn't trust myself to not drill through a leg or ankle!


I'm particularly pleased with how my vision for Catelin Abernathy came through! The head was a pretty good fit for the gap in the Rat King's cowl so all that was required was some filijng round the top of the head to better fit the shape of the cowl as well as flattening out the back of the head. The rats inside the cowl were willing to be filed away to nothingness. Then I took a roll of greenstuff and draped it round the existing lip of the cowl, smoothing the join and ensuring the lip was wide enough to create some natural shadow. I think it gives this Rat Queen a more sinister appearance and will make it easier to differentiate her from the other rat king (and Princess, once she arrives!)

The current crew as I have it:


See you in part 3 where I finish the basing and get some paint on these!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome to the Wandering River

This blog is intended for me to document my thoughts on various aspects of my life and hobby, in a bid to try and add some structure to my days and the time spent on things that are important to me. The reason for the blog's title is two-fold: Its the name of an upgrade in the game Malifaux, the game I spend the most (too much?) time on It represents the lack of focus the Blog will have (as you read further you'll hopefully appreciate that!) What am I doing currently? Playing a lot of Malifaux  60 games to date this year with a 60% win rate (36 wins, 3 Draws, 21 Losses) Currently ranked 57th in UK Malifaux Rankings:  Adam's Rank Winning a 24 man tournament is a real highlight! One of the problems I'm experiencing is that perhaps I'm playing too much Malifaux, and the character of the game is getting lost on me as I come to see it more as a game and less of an experience to be had with a fellow player. More and more I look back to my days of playin
Read more

2018 and the Year of the hobby!

So after a brief exchange on Whatsapp with my friend, I realised that despite firmly believing in never setting resolutions I do have a list of Hobby Goals that I'd like to hit this year. Work on the themed Hamelin crew with a view to finish by Dec'18 Paint all the Wave 5 TT models as they become available I think that will be the extent of my Malifaux painting this year, as you can gather from the Introduction post ( here)  I have a lot of projects on the go (most are at the not starting phase!) and I want to give them a go this year. These include: Paint my Burrows and Badgers crew ready for the Tournament in June Complete my Kingdom Death Monster starter set Build, and paint my Kingdom Death expansion sets  Build and paint the Shadespire crews Build terrain! Paint my remaining Guildball models for Farmers and Engineers Paint the Darklands stuff that I have squirreled away I have tried to list these in order of priority but it will no doubt change as new sh
Read more

My Malifaux Journey

In this post I weave and wander through my history with Malifaux and how and where I am today! In the beginning.... Seamus was one of the characters (along with Lady J and Pandora) which drew me to Malifaux, as well as the card mechanic which now causes me to sneer at most dice-based games! Through them I got to experience some of the great game design that went into Malifaux and the incredible depth that comes from each model's abilities interacting with each other (admittedly some go off in Wonky directions but no game is perfect) and I just wanted to play more and more. As my friends and I settled on our factions, we each settled mainly on one character that we preferred to others. Andres was Som'er Tooth Jones (with a feck ton of Skeeters!), Jack was Hamelin (with a beautifully painted crew!), James with Lynch and me with Seamus. Our games felt like we were adding to the history of Malifaux (not unlike WFB where our own heroes would battle with and against legends of lo
Read more