i have been pumped to play malifaux for a while now i have painted up 90 of my team the only
model left was my leader coalette dubois i've been putting her off and putting her off because she's
the hero she ought to be painted the best but that's just been an excuse well it ends today
i grabbed her in my paintbrushes and just did it yolo i sat down and got to work and in just a few
short hours well more like many long hours she and the whole team was finally complete
this video is sponsored by cobalt keep more on them in a bit hey guys jay here welcome to
eons of battle and i did it i did a thing for the first time in my life i don't have a pile of shame
for one game i painted the show girls i painted colette dubois i painted the
mannequins i painted the coraphy i painted the mechanical doves i painted everything
feels good these models have been a turning point for me there are a lot of firsts here these are
certainly the best models i've ever painted they are some of the first 32 millimeter scale figures
i have worked on and they were my first foray into non-games workshop games you hear that games
workshop you've got competition so to celebrate this achievement i want to tackle another first
for me i want to build a display case now i love my models but i don't actually get to look at them
much i keep them in a paper sorter which is nice they're all together and organized but i want to
look at these i have seen a lot of display cases and boards on youtube and other places and i never
really like them don't get me wrong they're cool but they are always way too big they're open to
air and dust and they're not easily transported i don't just want to make something cool i want to
make something functional and cool a skirmish army like malapho is the perfect candidate for this
just a handful of very flavorful models my theory behind the space i want to make
is i want to make one big base for them all to stand on now i am something of the basing guy
and malapho has already given me the perfect inspiration a theater i have based my minis as
if they were on a stage and that is why i chose them in the first place they are performers
at the star theater i've worked on a lot of theater productions and am very familiar with
the spaces so i want to expand my basing to not just be 32 and 40 millimeter holes punched out
of a stage floor but i want to build the whole stage now malafoe's art style is that everything
is very pretty and a bit evil and i think that'll translate beautifully to a theater
they have an old world charm they're grand and elegant and when they start to fall apart
they disintegrate these beautiful buildings start to look very eerie once they're abandoned
i have my concept but i still need my stage and i have discovered the perfect solution it
checks all my boxes it'll display the minis it'll store and protect them and it'll make for easy
transportation allow me to introduce you to the cobalt keep army display case
not only does cobalt keep make the best quality magnet ready bases on all sides of the mississippi
but they also make the cleverest display cases around these come in two flavors their hero
display case which is perfectly sized for a single model whether it's a small model or large these
clear polycarbonate boxes are a wonderful way to display and view your gorgeous minis
these cases can stack giving you an attractive tower and have integrated metal plates so that
your magnetized minis are held securely if you want to hold an entire army then cobalt keeps
army display cases for you it has enough room to hold 23 models standing on 32mm sized bases
23 models that means it'll hold a kill team roster perfectly and it has a large metal plate covering
the whole bottom allowing you to freely stick down your magnetized minis wherever you like
it'll hold the model safely and securely you'll be the belle of the ball if you rock up to the
game store with your minis looking nice in one of these boxes and if you shop with the code
eob10 then you can get 10 off of your order of display boxes from cobalt keep this box will make
the perfect base for my sinister stage now it's time to get to work i'm going to need my tools
so the first step in building my star theater is going to be the flooring and unfortunately i could
not find more of the coffee stir sticks that i used in my original malifo team but i did find
these popsicle sticks which are pretty good match they're like half size popsicles and you know what
these might be better just because they're going to save me a butt load of time because
they're a lot bigger so i'm going to figure out exactly what size i need to cut these two
and then cut out about a million i figured out how much of the popsicle sticks i needed then
i prepared a batch carefully arranging them so i could draw on my cut lines
i've noticed with a couple of these popsicle sticks that they're a little bit warped and
the super glue will probably hold him down just fine but my worry is that down the road
i'm gonna have my display case and then one of these pieces of wood is just gonna go
so i think i have plenty i can just uh get rid of these warp sticks i used the grid
on my cutting mat to help me square off the ends these popsicles then i measured three and a half
inches down and made my second mark to save myself time i just used my nippers to clip every stick
this was a very different project than i typically get to do and it was really fun
i have all my slats cut out and they're looking pretty good but unfortunately
despite my best efforts the edges are pretty ragged but i think i can fix it i am going to
tape them all together and then see if i can sand the edges and get them a little closer
i got some tape and stuck down my popsicles then once they were all together i sanded the edges
this still didn't make them perfect but it got me a lot closer with my slats all done i decided
i wanted a bit of variety so i made a mark two inches up and drew a line across all my sticks
i also put a tee on the top of every stick so that i could rearrange them properly
then i pulled out every third slat and cut it in half i did some quick and dirty weathering with a
hobby knife and nail file and then put them back in the stage i have all of my slats cut and that
was quite the little project i'm really glad i didn't have the incredibly small coffee serves
this would have taken a lot longer but now i hope i have enough super glue to get the job done
i put a lot of super glue on each slat as i wanted to sand and distress the heck out of these things
and i want to make sure that they are locked down i'm on to the very last slats and because
i've stretched them out just a little bit to give a little room in between each slat because i like
to think that these are really really old and so the wood has started to shrink over time maybe the
evil of malifo has actually like warped the wood a little bit but on the last slats i'm probably
going to have to chop it in half but that is very doable and on project like this it's always a good
idea to give yourself plenty of wiggle room i've definitely worked on a lot of projects
where everything is very exact and i planned everything and then as soon as anything goes wrong
like the whole project is thrown out of whack but i can very easily chop one of these in half
so no big deal i carefully split the wood then after a little bit of sanding it fit like a glove
then i stuck on some electrical tape to all the exposed plastic of the display case i have my
display all taped up it wouldn't do me much good to have a lovely display case like this and then
just scratch the heck out of it with sanding so it is nice and protected and you know this is really
going to help out with painting it's already taped up so i don't have to do any more work but now
on to the sanding i was happy with my sanding but it made everything a little bit too smooth
so i scraped my board up with a steel brush this will make the wood look a lot more like real
wood sanding is done and it is now time to start painting but first i gotta clean up a little bit
boom perfectly clean timed paint i gave my stage a blasting of good old-fashioned black primer
through the airbrush but i could have used a rattle can as well then i gave it a xenothal
not because it needed it but because that's what i did for my malefo team and i wanted this floor
to be consistent with those bases i loaded up my palette with all the colors i used on my malefo
bases and got ready to paint this stage will be 100 glazed i mixed up my browns with about 25
paint 75 water and then went to town then i picked out individual slats with either gray
green magenta or brown to add a little subtle variety it was looking pretty garish but that
was on purpose because i went over everything with brown and black again this made everything
look uniform while allowing the fun colors underneath to show through a little bit
then the most fun part of any project d masking i pulled off the tape and got a nice clean edge all
around my stage i have just finished my stage and i am loving it but i think the next step in this
project is going to be moving away from physical modeling and into digital modeling i grabbed a
tape measure and figured out my dimensions then i got my computer ready and booted up photoshop
i grabbed some assets off the internet to do a collage it was really fun figuring out what
i wanted my star theater look like and i used a photo of my model to give myself something to look
at for scale i was doing this in a document that was 8 inches by 10 inches a standard photo paper
size that'll fit in the cobalt keep display i just stacked my assets like this brick wall i found and
some photos of drapes i liked i didn't do much editing or painting because i plan to do all of
my fixes later practically so i have the design for my case all figured out but my printer sucks
luckily i live near a walgreens and so i'm going to have them printed for me this is
the photo i sent to my local walgreens i wonder what the employee who printed it out thought in
between family reunions and pet photos this weird collage alright let's see how this sucker turned
out
all right as you can see you might be thinking j doesn't really look good and it doesn't but this
is just gonna be the basis i'm gonna be adding a lot of paint to this let's see how it works out
first i needed to build some support for my back wall so i cut out what i needed
from some foam core then i painted it black all right moment of truth
give those a couple of seconds to get all tacky
there we go i love this part always a good time fitted absolutely come on now there all right
boom flawless so i now have my back wall and it is time to throw
a little paint on this get it looking good first things first it's printed on ultra glossy paper
so i had to knock that down and i took some matte medium and a sponge and i dabbed this on
wow a little bit of matte medium stippled on really did a good job of turning this
glossy photo into a matte photo now it's time to see how rusty my real art skills have gotten
i loaded up my palette with every color i thought i might need then i began painting
all over the curtains and bricks in the collage i used it as a guide i ended up keeping most of the
bricks just giving them some highlights but on the curtains i basically painted over everything this
was really fun i had a lot of freedom to take things as far as i wanted and i could add in
details and colors that were not there previously using the same colors i used in my malibu team
in the backdrop makes it feel like they belong together in the same world and last brush stroke
yeah i can be happy with that there you go it's like a million times better i shoved this into
the cobalt keep display case and luckily it stuck in with friction i had planned on
using a bit of double stick tape but it didn't need any and just like that my display case was
complete
so
my performers are ready to take to the stage the curtains rise and my actors are ready to take on
the wild world of malipo while i was planning this project i was thinking about cutting holes
in the stage for the base to slot into and i think that would be cool for some project but i decided
against it for this one i wanted to make sure that i had the ability to change the layout if i wanted
to maybe one week i'm going to want to bring the mannequins to the forefront and i also wanted to
make sure that there was plenty of floor space available because this is not going to be the
end of my malefo arcanists there is one more box and it comes with angelica duran carlos vasquez
and two big titty ice dancers i'm gonna need that extra floor space for those models pretty soon
a lot of these models were painted live on youtube by the way i live stream every night from 9 to 10
pm central come check it out this project was super cool and you could use it as a template
figure out a floor in a backdrop and then build your own it would be super cool to have an eerie
swamp a high fantasy village or a grim dark manufactorium cobalt keep has some examples
of what you could pull off on their website ah it is nice to have nice things this display case was
super fun to make and it's another way to enjoy my minis minis are expensive but you can get a
lot of mileage out of your hobby dollars i got the fun of painting the satisfaction of finishing them
the joy of gaming and now i get to stretch those hobby bucks even further by building this case
and now they can rest on the shelf displayed proudly for the rest of time
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thanks again to cobalt keep for supporting our videos their cases are lovely go check them out
but now it's time for the real star of the show this week's eob complete submissions we put out a
challenge to our community to send us before and after photos of their recently finished models
to be immortalized in our videos if you want to join in the fun you can submit a before and after
photo of your painted mini to our discord server which you can find in the description below or
you can post it to instagram with the hashtag eobcomplete without further ado let's look at
and get inspired by what the folks have finished this week an orc weird boy by v a catacomb command
barge by civilian waffles an assault intercessor by disco a human nobility team in blood bowl by
peter martin a hobgrot by the happy heretic a primary chaplain by huntron a dark angel's captain
by caliban lost a squad of plague marines by mick gz65 a space marine aggressor by chew toy 9696
a caradron overlord's boat by newtown goodness some dark elder incubi by save or die a slaanesh
demonette by elia fyi a primary space wolves by pirate mage t jalf a spacewolf captain by monta
kia ogie an officer of the fleet by sexicaya a primerous redemptor dreadnought by loomers
a primarist atv by enter hometown a salamander's tech marine by duplicorn a deathwatch redemptor
dreadnought by grim grimbitta studios a skeleton captain by visc some blood angel sanguinary guard
by unity a necromunda witch by biggest dickus this qatari engine seer by rot the greats a
primary space marine by zuwapi and a classic space marine captain by guy man hype congratulations to
everyone for a job well done it's no small feat to get paint on minis and you all should feel really
proud nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like finishing a project and we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing