M.A.G.U.S. - Through the dungeon

The adventurers gathered themselves in the round chamber. Biznard and Shamil threw up on each other[1] as Cahir broke in with fresh chowder made of undead whale. It was also at this point that the new party member, the rogue Dalibor made his appearance.

Painting a dryad

Introduction

I bought the miniature pack for the nymph but the dryad proved to be a fun project as well.

Painting a nymph

Introduction

I bought her and the dryad on a whim. I like these transparent miniatures, as they are quite fun to mess around using Contrast paints.

Painting a fairy

Introduction

I bought her just in case of more forest adventures. I decided on a woodland fairy/nymph/dryad type greenish color scheme.

Trail of Cthulhu demo game: Ritual Pursuits

I had previously played an intro adventure for Call of Cthulhu, although I haven't blogged about it. This was something else - as far as I gathered, a simplified, or rather more streamlined version of the system more focused on the mystery and investigation part. Not that I had any idea of what I was getting into... all I heard was "Who wants to play something something Cthulhu?"!

Painting a snake lady

A quick Contrast-based paintjob on a metallic undercoat.

Painting a light green ghost/banshee

Introduction 

This ghost is another cheap eBay find, so I have no real idea what it is. Looks Warhammer though. I have yet another ghost painting tutorial to try out, this time with greenish opaque colors.

Painting a brush holder dragon

Introduction

A gift from a friend and a good way to 'rest' in between all the NMM done on Be'lakor. Also: I did not really care about the color scheme, so I let my daughter choose the dominant color (she chose green).

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Meeting Stoned Giants

We descended into the next level, prepared for any manner of horrors we might encounter. All we met were umber hulk remains and large caves. Right up until we walked into a giant throne sculpted into the rock. Upon inspection, it was surrounded by precious stones, which we immediately decided to mine. 

There were two exits from the room, one marked with an X and one with noise coming from that direction. With no help from Augury, we decided to investigate the noise. But first, let's stand on the X! Or rather, let's push one another unto the X, to see what happens! Well, nothing.

As we advanced into the noisy room, the noise stopped, so I sent my zombie forward, only for it to be squashed by a stone giant. Sigh.

Painting spell effects (disk and hand)

Introduction 

A couple of fun miniatures depicting spell effects. The disk is obviously Tenser's Floating Disk, as for the hand... well, I'm sure I'll get some use out of it.

Painting a Night Hag and Dusk Hag

Introduction

The last batch from my latest purchase of Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures.

Painting a Frost Salamander

Introduction

Another giant mini from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures.

Word Bearers vs Emperor's Children, 05.08.2022

One last game before the summer holidays hit. One thing's for sure: Chaos Space Marines will win this game!

Note: We completely forgot about the warp lightning storms.

Note 2. We just set up a symmetrical battlefield, but the deployment zones were unusual, and we barely had any cover. I just placed a lot of stuff in front and hoped to go first. I did.

Battle round 1

Full steam ahead, everything does its job. For the Land Raider and Cultists, that is: draw fire.

Painting golems (slapchop method)

Part of a Frostgrave lot I bought off eBay some time ago. More experiments!

Painting genies (slapchop method)

Part of a Frostgrave lot I bought off eBay some time ago. With two identical genies, I decided on painting one red - perhaps an efreeti or demon. This allowed me some further experimentation with the colors as well.

Painting giant rats (slapchop method)

Part of a Frostgrave lot I bought off eBay some time ago. I decided to try them out with the slapchop method, see how the fur fairs. Spoiler: they look great. I also tried to use Stonewall Grey instead of Cold Grey, but it looked about the same for lightness, but with bluish hints. Back to Cold Grey it is.

July review and August goals

Let's copy paste the last post's first paragraph, for another successful month, ending in an awful cold.

RPGs scaled back this month, with only a single session of D&D and nothing else, due to holidays and COVID. Nevertheless, we are preparing for something new next month... fingers crossed.

On the other hand, I got in 3 games of Warhammer 40k with my brand new Word Bearers army. And speaking of Word Bearers, that's all I'm painting nowadays. Feeling a bit fatigued by red metallic armor, but still going strong. I can finally play with a new codex! Even if not very well. Expect more of these guys to come out in August, as well as some more games. Sorry Sigmar, this month we're crushing the False Emperor.

Word Bearers vs Novokh Necrons, 25.07.2022

The second 2000 points outing of the Word Bearers, a bit adapted from last time to test how does 180 points of Obliterators compare to a 170 points Predator Destructor. We played the Conversion scenario from Warzone Nephilim.