GLOOMHAVEN TINKERER HOW TO
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Remember to take full advantage of not needing to survive scenarios: It's often better to go out in a blaze of glory with the Tinkerer than to wait around 2 extra turns, really stretching those okay actions.

GLOOMHAVEN TINKERER HOW TO

So, you can think of it like a class guide, or like a guide to how to play the class in a new way. So, this might not match with your experience or play style, but the below is based on my playing the Tinkerer as one of my party's more valuable offensive characters. One final caveat before getting started: Looking around the internet, I believe I play the Tinkerer far more aggressively than most do. But, I find them immensely rewarding to play once I understand them, so I thought I'd share some thoughts on Gloomhaven's least-loved class.*Īlso, there will be class-related spoilers, because, well, what did you expect? It's a strategy guide. In short, they're tricky and don't tend to be very spectacular, and are often even moderately flawed in their design, since even the designers need to go in without such an obvious direction and that can mean a class doesn't run well, or doesn't run well within the intended role. These classes and characters tend to be devalued, specifically because they're not very straightforward: They're not tough enough to be the tank they're not strong enough to be a glass cannon in this case, the Tinkerer doesn't even have enough support to be dedicated support. I've learned, over the years, that I very often gravitate towards generalists that neither excel at one thing nor do they ever really lack a tool.

Last of all, I based the two miniatures the same way that I do for all my Gloomhaven miniatures by putting some Stirland Mud texture paint on the base, washing it with Strong Tone and drybrushing it with Tyrant Skull.Note: the Tinkerer's summons are based on some of Wyrd's old Arcanist models. It’s not perfect but I’m rather proud of the effect. As a final step I drybrushed the exhaust cloud with Mechanicus Standard Grey. I then repeated this step with Evil Sunz Scarlet except I didn't go as far up the flames as I did with the orange. For the warmer tones I thinned down some Jokaero Orange so that it was transparent and glazed it in over the exhaust cloud and a little way up the flames under the boots. I used this as a midtone for the flames and with that in mind the next step was very thin coats of Yriel Yellow to where I wanted the flames to be hottest, that is to say right under the boots. To start with I basecoated both parts with several coats of Averland Sunset. The last thing I needed to do was the plume and exhaust cloud of his rocket boots. Will I ever shine a UV light on this guy? Probably not, fun anyway though. The very last that I needed to do was to paint the lens of his goggles and his totally-not-arc-reactor on his chest with a bit of Greenstuff World Fluorescent Blue paint. I then added a couple of quick highlights to the black areas with Mechanicus Standard Grey before giving the whole flask a coat of gloss varnish to give it that glassy feel. I then added some small yellow dots to look like bubbles in the liquid. I started by basecoating it with Corvus Black then painted the lower half with Warpstone Glow to represent the liquid. The very last bit of detail that I needed to do was the flask in his hand. I then washed the entire model with Army Painter Strong Tone. For the crossbow, bolts, goggles and dagger on his thigh I used Leadbelcher. For the Quatryl skin/fur I was Khaki and as you might imagine I used Mournfang Brown for the leather pack and boots, and Scale75 Old Copper for the armour plates. In the end I decided on some Vallejo Model Colour English Uniform, which I figured is a nice utilitarian colour. The artwork has the Tinkerer in mainly brown tones, so given I had planned to paint him with brown leather and bronze armour I wasn’t too sure what colour to use for his clothes. I started with the Tinkerer as they continue the trend of a relatively simple paint scheme.

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Although to be honest, neither have much skin showing aside from their faces. The Demolitionist and the Tinkerer both being the same race, a Quatryl, it made sense to paint them at similar times.

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