Variety is the Spice!

I've had this one in various stages of competion for many a moon. Probably since last year honestly. It's just another one I kept wondering, "why don't I just finish him." He's from Dark Sword Miniatures and they have some fantastic sculpts.

This is a Griffin Templar I believe. It's from Rakcham when they used to do metal. It's one of three. The other two are essentially done, but I can't find their shields. The shields by the way, are terrible in that the contact point is minimal and prone to falling off. I'll probably blue tack it next time it comes off.

Looks like one of the Games Workshop ogres right? Color selection might have a little to do with that in terms of skin tone, but this fellow is from Heresy miniatures. The arms were a huge pia as even after throwing in the green stuff, there were still semi-visible wedges.

This is a goblin chief from Crocodille games for the Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. A ton of 'fiddy' bits on it and it's been in various stages of completion since it first game out. I just got tired of it and finished it off and gave it a quick seal. No point in prolonging the pain. It's a great fig but I'm realizing as I get older that my patience level for fiddy bits is wanning quick.
This skeleton warrior didn't want to be photo shot. I tried like six times before I gave up the ghost. So you get blurry skeleton warrior from Rafm. He's part of a three pack and I've got the other two in various stages of completion as well. Maybe they'll take.

This top row is a group of six 'bulls' from Games Workshop. They are part of an Ogre Kingdom army I've had in storeage for a long time and finally decided to paint. Expect to see many more of these puppies as all the 'block' painting of flesh, cloth and metal is done and the touch ups are happening now.

This is another chaos dwarf from Hasslefree Miniatures. I love the simplicity of it. It's a nice touch without being over complicated by thousands of pouches, bags, miselaneous weapons, etc...

#12: Sir Brannor

Finished one finally. I got this one started back in May, and he's finally done. Well, as done as I'm taking him to. I also have a comparison of him against another crusader I did. While it isn't great, I did do a very smooth blend on the cloak and armor. I think I need work on my highlighting skillz but this was so much smooth a blend than the first one.

October

Boo! Oh wait, it's a day too late for that. Well, it was a full moon last night, and with the autumn wind blowing the leaves it was a great and spooky night. It also means that the end of the year is fast approaching. And as we come into the last two months of the year, our painters are apparently returning to their craft. Well, some of them anyways. ;)

This month we put up:
joegkushner: 31
mike mearls: 16
gospog: 1

Which brings the totals to:
joegkushner: 164
mike mearls: 46
gospog: 43
crowtales: 17
joe: 11
Dom C: 3
Kuni: 2
microserf: 1

Yet More Varied Figures

I like what Mike did with the independent shots but they all came out super blury so they got grouped. This one still came out blury. The one on the left is Sister Angelique from the Anima Tactics miniature Game light starter set. The right is from Mega Miniatures and is a chaos warrior.






Okay, here's the next batch. The first one is Goran of Broadsword Adventurers. Next up is a Hasselfree Chaos Dwarf from an import line. It reminds me of the old Renegade Chaos Dwarves. Man, I'd love to have those again. Can't even tell you what I did with my originals. Next up is an 'able seamen' from Black Scorpion. Last up is a barbarian from Red Box that I reviewed for Kobold Quarterly online. Ullr the Red's tab was way too big so I snipped him and put him on a snow base.

And the last batch is three Iron Winds figures. We've got three figures from well before the start of the year that I finally finished. THe first is a dwarf barbarian that I've had in various stages of completion that I said F it and just finished it. The second is a litorian female for Arcana Evolved that I thought was one of the worst miniatures I've seen. The last is a female rogue who I guess is supposed to be the thief of hearts or something.

Fall Harvest

As it turns out, I painted a few minis over the summer but didn't have the chance to post them here. I couldn't find the camara! Anyway, here's what I've been up to:

This first piece is Tordek, the iconic dwarf fighter. I bought this mini at GenCon 2000, when 3e was first released. I had no idea that WotC planned a 3e minis line until I saw the figures for sale at their GenCon booth. It took 9 years, but I'm happy with how this guy came out.

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This fella is an orc from the WotC 25th Anniversary line. Not a bad fig, but I kind of hate the colors I used.

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I think this figure was originally a Heartbreaker mini from the mid-1990s, but I bought it when it was re-released by a company called ZN Miniatures back in 2003 or so.

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I have very few halfling minis painted, so I've decided to remedy that. This guy is a Reaper figure that I picked up at GenCon this year.

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Here's a figure from the vaults, a TSR figure from about 1983 or so. I've been on a little bit of a kick with old figures lately.

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This is a werebear from the Chainmail line.

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An ogre delver from the Chainmail line. One of the things I liked about Chainmail was that it had a lot of interesting takes on classic D&D monsters. An ogre ranger with two axes is pretty cool.

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A slaughterpit gnoll zombie from the Chainmail line, basically two zombified gnolls sewn together into a super zombie.

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Another product of my nostalgia kick. About 20 years ago, this figure was one of the first minis I ever painted. I picked up another copy and did a new paint job, using the same color scheme. When a big box of my old gaming stuff arrives from New England, I'll do a side-by-side comparison of my original work and this guy.

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A mob of Chainmail goblins, because you can never have enough of the little guys.

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A human barbarian from the WotC 3e minis line.

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Regdar, the iconic human fighter. Another mini from the 3e WotC minis line.

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Not the clearest photo, but this guy is the minotaur from the Silver Anniversary line.

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Another Miscellanea

OKay, the pig faced orcs and the goat headed beastmen are part of a mega miniature pack. The guy with the huge scimitar is a Warlord by Reaper figures that leads the mercenaries. The dark elf is from Ral Partha, I believe part of their Crucible line. The savage orc on the big pig is Games Workshop.

October: Crankin' them out!

Genie from Reaper. Love this sculpt!