Monday, September 28, 2020

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: The altar of "we don't know"

 Having just slain the many-faced horror, the adventurers took their time to look around the cavernous hall. Unfortunately, we found nothing but broken mining equipment. Oh, and an altar.

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Painting dark skinned Bloodreavers

Introduction


I assembled 20 of these guys ages ago but lost the drive to paint them. Well they are the last in the line of the "in progress" projects for Khorne, so here we are. Now I couldn't stand 20 near identical models, thus I give you the first give of the bunch.


Blood on weapons


Dark skin

Monday, September 21, 2020

Graveyard Shift: Travel montage

 The agents started off towards their goal, expecting half a day of leisurely travel. Hah! In the 42nd millenium? Not a chance. Not to mention heavy rains in monsoon season.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Toy repairs using milliput

Painting zombies (Contrast)

Introduction


More Contrast undead! This is where I started experimenting again, by doing pre-shading. As I don't have an airbrush, this was unavailable for me, but transparent glazes such as Contrast might make it happen.



Monday, September 14, 2020

Graveyard Shift: Investigation

The agents decided not to commit high-grade heresy by stealing a holy relic, instead visiting the Jolly Undertaker to meet Diomedes.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Painting a bell

We found an old bell and decided to fix it up for our daughter to use. My wife cleaned it and polished it (no before pictures, sadly I forgot to take any), and I got down to painting.

Painting skeletons (Contrast)

Introduction


The second batch of commission minis, where I got to play around more with Contrast colors. I have to say, they are crazy fun.



Monday, September 7, 2020

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: A shocking surprise

We started where we left off - I was recreating the summoning circle, with the rest of the party waiting in the now inanimate kitchen. The moment I drew the last rune, a man appeared in the circle - he was levitating, black cloak billowing.[1]

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Painting 3d printed stone walls

In case we ever get to cast 5th level spells in D&D, I had these stone wall fragments to be created for... you guessed it, Wall of Stone.

Painting skeleton archers (Contrast)

Introduction


In my June/July review I mentioned a huge commission work for MAGUS. It contains a large number of basic undead miniatures, to be painted at the lowest possible level, with no basing. Enter... Citadel Contrast paints. First up, a trio of skeleton archers.

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

August review & September goals

At this point I'm just repeating myself. August was a bust as far as the hobbies are concerned. 2 RPG sessions for gaming, and that's it. Some painting, at a crawling pace. Blog posts are still regular for the time being, although gaming articles are now catching up with the current date (so if I miss anymore sessions there will be a hiatus). For painting, I have a few Contrast-type articles lined up, as well as some very small other projects. Perhaps September will see the end of 3 long running painting projects (zombies, skeletons, Bloodreavers). Most likely not.