Painting a commission tiefling bard

The sequel to the barbarian. Happy customers always come back, so here's a very colorful bard next. This time we have a molded base, a death-drum, hand painted stripes... challenge accepted!

Lighthouse under attack: a D&D 5E one-shot

With Legorlas' gang unable to reconvene for a session, we went for a one-shot, with a first-time DM. Time to make a new character!

• Pussycat, female tiefling bard
• Obi von Kenobi, eldritch knight (me)
• Emanon, warforged arcana cleric 
• Himawari Ranbu, kensei monk

The adventurers were having breakfast in a port side tavern. I went ahead with presenting my background first, as I put way too much thought into this. The rest of the players joined in, leading to a well-established adventuring party. 

No, I won't spare you. Obi von Kenobi spent his youth at the jedi temple, a religious enclave worshipping the Weave of Magic permeating the universe as a single entity - the Force. His first quest was to offer a helping hand to the kingdom of Naboo, threatened by the warforged/golem army of the local Trade Consortium. Obi and his master, Qui von Jinn, turned the tide by convincing a local bullywug tribe, the Gungans, to distract the warforged army, while the two jedi took care of the army's leadership. Unfortunately, Qui von Jinn died, leading to Obi questioning the tenets of his order and starting on the path of the adventurer instead. Emanon was part of the warforged army, but got shocked by a Gungan weapon and his programming misfired. He deserted and joined Obi instead. Ranbu was a jedi reject, as he was unable to grasp the philosophy. Still, he joined up. Pussycat was simply attracted by my strength of arms and huge... sword. Yes, it went on like this all evening.

Painting a commission Griffin

A low-effort commission to make this Reaper Bones griffin look like its counterpart in Heroes 3.

Painting a commission marble golem

Initially, this commission stone golem was supposed to be a quick greyscale drybrushing job. We changed our minds and made him marble instead.

Painting a commission armed golem

A low-effort commission from Reaper Bones Kickstarter 5.

Astra Militarum vs Necrons, 07.11.2023

A small demo game of 360ish points. It was my opponent's first game since several editions, so we just pretended to play kill points and went through the basics of the game.

I forgot to take pictures of the setup. We each had two units that moved a bit forward in the first turn. 

Battle round 2 

Flayed Ones arrive from reserves! I did an Overwatch to no effect.

Painting a commission Halloween golem

A low effort random commission. I decided on faded browns, as for a scarecrow, with a big orange pumpkin head and some low effort rust effect on the scythe.

Painting a commission Terror Bird

Painting instructions: make him a scavenger from Gothic 1. Also make it a low-effort commission, to remind of the low poly graphics from the game.

Painting an armored angel

This 3d printed miniature was a surprise gift by Cahir's player (see MAGUS). Little did he know, he just handed me the BBEG for our current campaign!

Note: I love this miniature. It does have some 3d printing flaws, but it is just everything I personally think miniatures should be. Very detailed, but few kinds of details, enabling a high grade paintjob without taking a lifetime.

Blue cloth (Contrast)

 

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Hungry, hungry minotaurs (halloween edition)

It's Halloween! Or, it was the day we played. So the adventurers followed the sound of the Addams' family theme song into a large cavern where ghostly minotaurs dressed in sheets were doing an evil ritual. The minotaur chief smashed a jack-o-lantern, releasing smaller ghostly minotaurs. Roll for initiative!

Painting commission characters

White metal miniatures, a welcome change from all the Bones quick jobs.

Purple cloth

 

The adventures of Legorlas Green Leaf: BUUUURN

We awakened after the last combat with two less players. We barricaded the room for a long rest, with the elves taking turns standing watch. We had some strange occurrences, with the shadows moving wave-like into the direction we were heading, and Avil dreamt of being a human wizard consecrated to be the defender of this place in ancient times. With no follow-up, we went on our merry way.[1] More visions on the way of this guy who was supposed to guard the Spellforge. What an incompetent looser! 

Painting dark leather (Contrast)

 

Painting commission skeletons

I volunteered to paint up some 3d printed skeletons for the Guild Hall's Halloween adventures. I decided on a quick color scheme (coincidentally all warm colors, blanchitsu-like), due to the complexity of the models and the looming deadline.

October review and November goals

October was way better than September. 

D&D goes ever on. We are on to the next level, with a character level-up and two huge combat encounters behind us. We did a Halloween-lite session as well.

With the MAGUS campaign over, I jumped into another group as Legorlas GreenLeaf. We're also doing one-shots when we're missing a game, so really promising.

Warhammer limps along with a single narrative game for our ongoing campaign. I leaned heavily into the RPGs, so not surprising.

Finally, painting is also moving along nicely. I finished all my projects in progress, and as of today I am actually 5 days ahead of schedule. I took on some surprise commissions, and I'm leaning into reaching my goal by painting simpler miniatures.

As for November, I have no special gaming plans (except going forwards with all of the above). I do need to paint a lot more to keep up with my 1-miniature-per-day goal - for the first time, it looks really achievable. Expect a horde of simple fantasy miniatures to be painted for the remainder of the year, including some old metal Lord of the Rings stuff and Hasslefree miniatures.