In the real world I have a job that can be best described by the word 'boring'. It's stress free but monotonous in the extreme which means that I can pretty much do it on auto-pilot...which means most of my brilliant ideas generally occur when I'm doing the same seven welds in the same seven places for about the hundredth time that day (or more often 'night' as I work quite odd shifts).
However having ideas is by no means the same as actually getting around to implementing them and I'm sure that many potentially amazing potential projects have never seen the light of day due to inattention. I am therefore going to start documenting these ideas and who knows maybe I'll actually end up doing them...eventually...
Of course this will tie in nicely with my intention to create some alternate 'counts-as' Malifaux crews in my admittedly currently quite intermittent 'Crew a Week' project. Given that most of these will be extensive conversion projects they're unlikely to be done in a week even with the best of intentions.
One of my favourite graphic novels of recent years has been Neil Gaimans 'Sandman/The Dreaming' series and the concept of the 'Endless' was of particular interest. Containing a wide variety of character types and appearances from both sexes (one of which literally is both sexes, lol) I think they would make a very interesting look for a Malifaux crew and like my Hellraiser one they can fit in with the overall theme due to the fact that pretty much all genres are covered in the Malifaux concept.
Models used to accomplish this is going to take some thought but I do have a bit off leeway as though the basic concepts are the same for them in all their aspects they have been interpreted somewhat differently but various artists. Some pictures of these interpretations will show you what I mean...
Some of the interpretations are due to the graphic novel itself being set in a wide variety of times and even dimensions but from a Malifaux perspective I'll be going with some of the more Gothic interpretations. This particular piece of artwork most closely illustrates the appearance that most appeals to me currently...
As a concept it also gives me access to a wide variety of supporting cast to fill in any gaps. Dream himself has a wide variety of servants ranging from ravens, talking scarecrows, gargoyles, creepy librarians and lets not forget about...
...serial killing nightmares with teeth for eyes...This one might be interesting...plus I'm a big fan of The Corinthian...don't draw any conclusions about me because of that though...
Maybe it's because we're both Visionary's.....
Thoughts and comments are (as usual) most welcome.
Love it
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to think that a 'Dream' crew might be better as a workable concept...I suppose I could try both if it comes down to it...
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