Some monsters for D&D

That's another pile of miniatures that have been sitting around my desk for months finished.  This time its some monsters.  All are Reaper Bones again.  Although I did manage to prime some Mythic Battles stuff when it wasn't raining, or blowing a gale... or both.

We'll start with the basilisks.

I bought two of these ages ago, because where's the challenge in just on murder lizard with a petrifying gaze.  I've gone for an unassuming brown, which is unintentionally shiny.  I decided to keep it that way because it makes it look a bit snake-like.




Kobolds

Everyone's favourite whipping boys.  I've only got 6 so I really need more.  What they lack in threat they make up for  in numbers.  I went quick and dirty with these because no one really stops to admire the paint job on fodder.


Fire Giant

I started painting this one at the same time as the last one.  But for some reason I never finished him.  He's done now though.  I've gone for the same look with dark skin and armour set against bright contrasting hair.  He looks like he's charging forwards ready to splat someone with his massive sword.  I say splat because that sword is wider than the torso of most human sized miniatures.



I've got quite an interesting mix of Mythic Battles Pantheon miniatures lined up next; including Helios and Echidna. 

More Fantasy Heroes

More fantasy miniatures painted, again with the tieflings.  Here we have a couple of tieflings and and a half orc.  Again these are from Reaper's Bones range.

 Let's look at the tiefling warrior first.

This is the same mini as in my last entry (I got sent a second by accident).  I've decided to make him the opposite of the other.  This one is cold, whereas the other one is hot.  I actually dig this sculpt, I'm left handed so I approve of seeing a left handed warrior every now and again.  This guy also has purple hair for reasons.

Female teifling spellcaster.

She strikes me as a warlock, probably due to the trident of bone she's holding.  I've gone for a bright red skin tone, and decided to contrast her hair and loincloth against this.  I think it works.

Female half orc spellcaster

Half orcs are hard to come by, so I try to pick them up whenever I can.  Like many bones miniatures she suffers from soft features, which is common among the Bones range.  It's annoying, but I persevered. I decided to put her in a bright yellow dress to contrast with her dark skin.  She could act as any spellcaster, there's nothing that makes her jump out as one type or another.

A Trio of Tieflings

So I've been quiet for the past couple of weeks.  That's because I've been working on a super secret sci-fi project, which you'll get to see after Christmas.  You'll just have to hold your excitement until then.  I'll promise you this it's completely different from the usual stuff I post on here.  After I finished it I really needed to paint something else to cleanse the palette so to speak.  I needed something with free reign of colours so that I could just wing it.  I needed more fantasy adventurers, luckily I had a bunch primed. 

All three are from Reaper Miniatures Dark Havens Legends range.  And all three of them are made from Bones plastic rather than metal.


Tiefling Rogue

Purple skin! You don't get much more off the wall than that.  I wanted to keep her clothes dark without using black, so I used a dark brown for the leather and canvas for the trousers.  It keeps her nice and earthy without  her standing out in a crowd.



Tiefling Mage a.k.a Mr Fabulous

Check out his medieval pimp coat.  I decided to be a bit different with this guy.  I've tried to keep him bright.  I've gone for regular flesh colour, but with a crimson wash to make him look slightly red.  I've also given him white hair and grey horns (I've seen a few cambions at Empire like that and stole the look).  I never rated this mini before I started painting him, but now I think he's one of my favourites.  We might be looking at my next D&D character.


Tiefling Paladin/Fighter

I've used chaos warriors as inspiration for this guy.  I wanted him to look fiendish, almost like he's embraced his dark lineage.  He's sporting black iron armour with gold trim.  All his garments are earthy to keep them muted.  I really wanted his skin to stand out, so I went with bright red.

I might have a crack at some more adventurers before starting some more Mythic Battle Pantheon stuff.
 

Painting Mythic Battles Pantheon 12

That's the next batch done.  This time it's Jason and his Argonauts and Campe (a scorpion lady).  Fun fact Jason and the Argonauts was one of my favourite films as a kid.  It's probably the reason I like undead so much (that skeleton scene is awesome).

Jason

He's even wearing the golden fleece, which is a nice touch.

Argonaut

There's 3 of these all in the same pose.


Campe

She didn't photograph well.  She's a bit brighter in the flesh.

Next on the painting block is the goat headed priest from the suicide squad box.  I'm also working on secret sci-fi project as a Christmas present.  There's also another mish-mash of mythic battles minis waiting to get primed.  I'm also rebasing some of my old undead for Age of Sigmar (yes I've been won over).

Deep Madness Core Set Unboxing

Since Halloween has just passed I though I should do something  scary.  And what's scarier than Lovecraftian horror?  Nothing that's what... well maybe the current political climate but aside from that it's maddening gribble monsters.  So here we have Deep Madness by Dimension Games.  If you like what you see they have a second printing on kickstarter at the time of writing (I'm in no way affiliated with Dimension Games I just think this shit is cool).  Let's look at the stuff...

It came in a huge box

 Today we will be looking at the core box, which is the biggest.

That's a super dungeon explore desktop, the box isn't on fire, honest.  It's big, meaty and has quite a bit of heft to it (ooh-er missus).

Inside the box you get a rule book, with a good whack of narrative scenarios.

There's three sheets of tokens.

A big tray of minis.

More minis and a good pile of double side board tiles.

Dice, cards bases.  There's a butt load of black monster bases that I forgot to photograph... oops.

More cards under the other cards.

From left to right; Roman Asimov (biochemist), Randi Carter (researcher), Felecia Armitage (doctor), Samuel Smith (captain), Athur Weyland (engineer) and Jared Drake (soldier).

Putrid, mind eater, husk and agony.

Hysteria, blind, delirium,  and two different sculpts of ravenous.

Twisted and substance.

Madness within and bathophobia.

As far as the components go I'm really impressed with them.  The sculpts are gorgeous or hideous depending on your point of view.  My only gripe is that the mind eaters aren't that well secured, every time i open the box they've all bloody moved.

So what's the story? Well in a nutshell a secret underwater research facility has gone dark.  A team of investigators have been sent in to find out what happened.  Their submarine gets attacked by some leviathan and they effectively crash into the facility.  Upon entering they find that the facility is overrun with horrible monsters and their quest for survival begins.  Basically it's heavily influenced by Lovecraft and Bioshock set in a very isolated environment.

I've not played it yet, but I hear it's brutal.