Spring Cleaning Challenge: Malifaux Neverborn

It’s funny, my goals for the Spring Cleaning Challenge were simple at the start. Finish your core box… well! It seems the deeper I get into Malifaux, the more miniatures I want. As I am building a crew that I feel suits me… and plus… they all look so darn cool.

I have been putting off assembling a little bit because Malifaux miniatures had me dropping bits every two seconds as each individual piece was so small.

Well you wouldn’t believe it! I think these miniatures were the easiest thing I have assembled. Had a look over the pieces beforehand and they all fit together perfectly. Slot in quite nicely. And I didn’t even need the assembly instructions! I still looked though cause I was sure I was going to do something wrong. As much common sense as there was there.

The Bear-ly Together miniatures are variants of the Stitched Together miniatures. The original contains three different Oogie-Boogie looking miniatures and I always wanted to incorporate them into my crew, but I wasn’t convinced by the way they look. Yes – I know, all about those aesthetics.

I based them on the usual Scale 75 Light Grey Primer, and had a think to how I want to paint them. As much as they look great on the box, I wanted to do something completely different, to make them look both adorable and psychotic at the same time.

Spraying them was a little hard outside as they are spherical. They liked to have a little roll around. So my hand is a fantastic colour of light grey to stop their pesky movements.

Y’all know me. I love myself a pastel colour. And you all had me in absolute intrigue last week considering a lot of you do not mix your paints. I took all my different purples. and I plan on mixing them in different variations to get the correct shading and shadowing. The little guy on the right-hand side will be a pastel purple. I will attempt to do the other bears in a pastel yellow, blue, green, orange, pink and lilac.

I will show you how I mix my colours to achieve different variations. But I do warn you, I certainly will not be telling you how much part white vs part base colour it will be. I work out my colours by eye, and compare.

I am looking forward to inviting ya’ll to the chaos.