Malifaux Title Masters

Next up we are tackling Basse and Parker, along with Parkers sister Pearl who has infiltrated Basses posse.

My Basse crew is done up with grassy and overgrown bases. The models int he crew focus on being able to move through difficult terrain, so it made some sense to base him this way.

Parker is on a reddish desert based with rocks. The big story Parker is featured in sees the crew moving through the badlands and the dirt is described as reddish, so I thought it would make an interesting basing scheme.

For the Basse base (lol) I used some of these extra bits from a sylvaneth army to make some little shrubs and bushes. I just cut little pieces off and glued them to the base, before applying dirt.

The red desert I made with some Vallejo texture paste. I base coated them with a dark red and then drybrushed a pale red over top. The rocks are made of cork, and I painted them up with a medium gray, drybrushed up to a light gray.

For the mixed keyword base for Pearl, I just did the texture paste, but at the end I will toss some bushes on top to make it a mixture of both schemes.

Parker is wearing a ton of leather, so I started off by basecoating him in an orangey brown. I then drybrushed it heavily to give it a worn look. I went in and added some color in the few places that arent leather, and painted his gun. The last step was to drybrush and stipple some dark gray and black on the ends of his clothes, since hes a firey boy.

Last I just added some fire effect into the cuts in his arm and chest. Undercoated it with a light gray, then added yellow and orange.

Pearl was a pretty simple paint job. I base coated everything as needed, and then drybrushed to give her clothing a worn effect, similar to Parker. Her chaps are red so I went in an manually highlighted them up to get them to stand out a big more.

Ive always had a hard time painting capes, so when I got to Basse I spend a bit of extra time on it. I just did a ton of layers, adding in highlights where my painting light seemed to indicate. I then added a few shadows, being careful not to make them too big, which is something that often happens.

After I picked out all of the other colors, I went in and added the gold trim that goes around his clothing. I think this added a really nice touch to the model, and makes it stand out quite a bit.

These were some of the most fun models ive painted in a while. Im not really sure why, they don’t look like they stand out very much. I think it was the combination of painting techniques, and some really well sculpted and characterful models. Im always impressed how Wyrd can manage to make normal-ish looking people look so unique and different, even though there are hundreds of models in their range.