Wandering River Style

Part Two can be found  here One of my goals with this project was to improve my basing technique and the time I spent on bases in general. Before now, the time spent would be as little as possible, and the bases to be as generic as possible which was no bad thing in Malifaux as you play the faction in the game, so bases matching meant you had a less odd looking force when you deployed your crew of Showgirls, Ice Golem's, and a mechanical spider building mastermind (who am I kidding; no one ever deployed an Ice Golem!) I wanted to complete the basing before moving onto painting.. I felt that a flat surface (on which people would be walking along the sewer tunnels) should not be devoid of features. So out came some sand to create the following effect: The weird empty looking base belongs to Nix, or Schrodinger's Cat who will have a cool looking cardboard box to go with an otherwise featureless base. This doesn't look like much, but let me tell you - putting sand on ...

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...

So here marks the start of my long-time project; to build and create my own themed Hamelin crew based on the Nightmare box released at Gen Con 2017 I have always liked Hamelin (the Pied Piper) and the story surrounding it, possibly because we performed it as a school play one year (sadly I was not the Pied Piper) and while Malifaux's version doesn't overtly play into this theme, Wyrd Miniatures did release a model that suited my vision of Hamelin perfectly - the Vintage/Avatar Hamelin. After acquiring this model via some hard-won guilders, the Gen Con box was announced and my fate sealed; the Hamelin crew I'd long thought about would be created! I'm not looking to make a competitive crew (I have my Ten Thunders to play competitively) so this crew will be a labour of love (and dark imagination!). I will be adding 'Lost' models to it, representing the lost children (Lost is a keyword characteristic in Malifaux that allows Hamelin to hire them in-game) as ...

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...