Painting undead horsemen (Contrast)

Introduction

... ghost rider? I wonder when these will be thrown at our MAGUS party.

Painting pirates (Contrast)

Introduction

Our ship in MAGUS needs a crew, and they're better off painted.

Painting knights & soldiers (Contrast)

Introduction

Any GM knows that a couple of town guards and assorted armored fighters always come in handy. These Reaper Bones miniatures will do just fine. They started me on the January commission trip!

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Taxi!

Having defeated the drow the last time, we took a short rest (mostly for me to replenish my health) and fast tracked the exploration of the rest of the underground city.[1] Then we assumed marching formation, and I sent my invisible owl ahead to scout.

Painting The Triumph of Saint Katherine

My first ever Warhammer commission: The Triumph of Saint Katherine. Yes, we have a local Sororitas player. No, I'm still not doing commissions for money. I got paid in cold, hard plastic for this one... more on that, later.

I painted 3 subassemblies:

• the base 
• the sisters 
• the reliquary 

The photos here are without the reliquary, as I asked for the reliquary to be delivered not fully assembled, and the client wants to magnetize it for ease of transportation. Good luck!

Painting The Triumph of Saint Katherine (reliquary)

This part was the hardest to prepare, as the client wishes to magnetize this - somehow.

Pale flesh

 

Dark metal

D&D 5E one shot collection - Danger at Blire Manor, part 1

Upon wandering the lands closer to Neverwinter[1], the adventurers were hired by a local lord to explore his uncle's manor house. The old man had gone missing 20 years before, without leaving a will. The manor and estate were abandoned without a clear heir, ransacked  and forgotten. The chances of still finding something are slim, but a 100 gold reward was good enough to spur the party into action.

Painting Ogres (Warhammer Ogors)

Introduction

I bought these 3 as a random eBay bargain. They've already seen action in D&D. As they're mostly flesh, I decided to apply my time saving techniques and also to experiment with Contrast and metals.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Always kill the drow on the latrine

Due to popular demand[1], as we had Selene participate in this session, we quietly retconned the latrine encounter to do it again. This time, the girls insisted on not attacking the drow inside, who ran away. This will later prove a mistake.

Painting The Triumph of Saint Katherine (sisters)

Definitely the most complex and time consuming part of the commission. These sisters are loaded with minuscule details.

Painting shiny black

 

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Latrine encounter

We recovered from the fight with the chimaeras, I remade my undead minions, and we pushed into what looked like an underground settlement overgrown with spider webs. We were just 3 brave adventurers, plus 4 undead. And the invisible owl, which I remembered to send forth scouting. That chimaera encounter hurt.

Painting a Blighted Reaver

Introduction

It's been a while since I painted something from the  Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers board game. I only have 1 of this guy instead of the 3, as I traded them for elves.

Painting The Triumph of Saint Katherine (base)

This is a large uniform piece, and thus the easiest subassembly to paint. The detail in the middle could have been painted in other colors, but it is mostly covered over by the hover coffin, so I decided against it. In truth, I was much too curious about how the marble effect would look across the very small details this thing is filled with.

March review & April goals

Slooooowly grinding through the year. 2021 = 2020-won.

Anyway. 

Nothing changed gaming wise. I skipped a few D&D posts due to technical difficulties, but fear not: it is still ongoing. Both campaigns, actually. And they're both on roll20 now! Neat. Although it is so very strange to be blocked by Fog of War (as a player) :D

Of the things I started painting last month, I managed to finish some. As in, ALL commission backlog is now done. This includes some new Contrast minis and some stuff I had from last year, for which inspiration finally struck. And that's it for now. I don't want to do commissions for a while - I have my own stuff to paint.

This left little time for other painting projects, so I still have Bones to paint. I expect to be done with my dinos and dark elves this month, and then maybe I'll wander into Warhammer territory again...