Wednesday Night WIPs

Tonight I had only stolen minutes to put the finishing touches on the minion Nagas and start the basecoat on these ogres. Cheers!

Paint Club WIPs

Great Paint Club! We welcomed Marc, who's working through his Ashardalon set and off to a great start. Here's my Descent stuff.

Sunday Night WIPs

Considering the amount of time I spent stealing away to paint today I expected to have more done. Still, these three skeletons finish off my Descent archers, and I'll have this giant done tomorrow.. that ain't nothin'!

The Count with the Clout! The Imperator of Incisors! The Baron of Bleh!

I saved Strahd for last, both presentation and actual painting. The thing is, when you're playing Ravenloft, you'll never use this mini! I've never put him on the board, we always play with new people and go through one of the other scenarios instead of hunting Strahd. But he needs to look good, and this is a good high fantasy, Wayne Reynoldsy vampire that doesn't go too Lugosi or Gene Colan Dracula.

I put some deep red on him (following the Spike principle) and made sure he had a Mr. T level of gold because dude's a count. For the sword, I laid down silver and followed with a clear blue. I see this as a Frostblade, which used to absolutely wreck me in Warhammer Fantasy Battle. If I was stating this guy up for D&D, I would try to convey that he could use his sword to achieve a TPK, but wants to feed instead.

I don't think the head came together very well. First there's the mouth, which just isn't working for me... it really looks different from the right or the left sides. Second I should have gone blue-grey and really sold the Vampire in the skin tone. Strahd is a little too pink and I couldn't remove that with highlights.

Friday Night WIPs

I had a lot of WIPs this week! Here's my minion Giant and Sorcerers from Descent v1. I'm now well into that set, although my paternity leave is drawing to a close and I won't be near as productive next week. You know what rules, dudes? Painting and playing with your baby.

I like how all these guys turned out. Next are Manticores and Hellhounds!

Descent Complete!

This week I completed the last of my monsters from the Descent v2 box set, so I can now bring a totally painted set to Game Night! I've also done the contents of the Lair of the Wyrm expansion and two monster groups from the v1 set, with more on the way.

This was fun and taught me to work fast! I'd recommend the Descent game as a beginning painting project: it's the right mix of challenge and reward.

Wednesday Night WIPs

Tonight I did some touch-ups to finish off the boss monsters I did at Painting Club last night, then worked through my six minion skeleton archers from the Descent v1 box. But enough about that box... with this red Shadow Dragon done, I've completed all the miniatures in Descent v2! And Lair of the Wyrm, and Beastmen and Razorwings from v1... I've done a lot of Descent minis! Tomorrow I'll spend some time on bases, spray with matte sealer, and put this kid to bed.

Reaper updated us on their Bones Kickstarter last night, and it sounds like they're running about a month and a half behind. So I'll have June and early July to paint Descent v1, Wrath of Ashardalon, and maybe Legend of Drizzt. After all that, I'm going to be in great shape for all my new Bones stuff!