Oh so close. You can almost taste the brandy butter.
That is indeed a Mantic Dungeon Saga door up there, and it is indeed hand-tooled. I haven't done much furniture this month. It always feels like it's piling up behind whatever else I'm painting, so I try to keep chopping away at it.
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Bookshelf! I put a bit of extra texture paint along the bottom, to make it look abandoned and mouldering. And then did nice bright, polished bottles along the top, which rather spoils the effect. |
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Well! Water effects included. There's more than I planned, it dried badly with all the gel creeping up the sides in a massive miniscus. So I put some more in and then roughed it up to look splashy before it dried. It's a hot water well, clearly, captured in mid-boil. |
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Chair! Throne really, I suppose. Moss added with Green Ink once I'd painted it. |
Now, I'm clearly aware that Stylus has out-painted me thoroughly this month, but I'm not going to go down without a fight. Taking a week's holiday in Tenerife didn't help me catch up, I have to admit, and as much as I could draw out the warband, it was never going to out-do huge packs of goblins. But I have managed a last burst of productivity before the Julbord starts up and I lose all cardiac function.
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Reaper mini Thief! In a very non-stealth-friendly cloak. The gewgaw she's nicked is some kind of urn, you can't really see it very well in this pic. |
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Official Pathfinder Reaper mini Lini the Druid! Tiny model, this, with a hell of a lot going on. Not sure I quite managed to pick out her voodoo doll set, for example, although I was pleased with her hair. Dunno why she's got arrows, she doesn't have a bow. |
General Kas was over last month, we played a couple of evening of randomly generated Dungeon Saga with our own created heroes. Fun, although we didn't win a single mission of the ten or so we played against the AI deck. This was because I had the rules all wrong, it turned out, so well done me. Fun all the same!
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Reaper Mini Paladin! Probably Antipaladin, with this angsty hairdo. |
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Reaper Mini Bard! The hair came out nicely. |
These four models are the all-girl heroes we used. I felt bad that they weren't painted, so got to it. Of course, that meant I was also honour bound to do some of the bad guys.
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Mantic Goblins! Fun trying out the rules for these vicious sneaks. Much better than the Abyssals as villains, I felt, and much better models too. Looking forward to the rest of these. |
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Warriors in centurion helms. Bit fancy for gobbos, no? |
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That's more like it. String belt and a bent spear. |
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Troll! We only fought one, on a level we nearly beat. And we would have made it, if it wasn't for the half-dozen rounds this bugger took to kill. |
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Zombie Troll! It's been a while. A whole year, in fact, I was doing Kas's copy of the Undead models last Advent. He made the jump to the paint box at the last minute, really as a nod to last year's effort. Also because it makes a nice 'before and after' shot. |
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Much better shot of the Paladin, this. |
There is a reason behind today's title, of course, but we're not quite there yet.
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Reaper mini Snake Demon! All six bendy arms of her, bless her reptilian boobs. Quite a large model, and as such, the Reaper plastic makes her appropriately flexible for a serpent lady. |
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I have no idea why I suddenly felt inspired to paint this, one of the Orcs from the 80s Fantasy Armies box set. I have nearly forty of them and no desire to finish them off. Yet here he is. Dead easy to paint, too, very blocky model. |
Having got that out of my system, I can finally get on to the main event for today.
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Almost, anyway. There were some leftovers to get through first. |
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Another six original hybrids, plus one with a Tyranid Warrior arm. That's how Boneswords used to look in the 90s, kids, look them up. |
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So now I have a unit of twelve that I'll field in my never going to happen, relegated to perpetual box shelf. |
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General Leofa's hybrids as well, the final three early generation guys. |
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And these little freaks, a pair of genestealer familiars. Creepy little bastards. |
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Who of course enjoy skull bowling, like their elders. I painted them much more red, as though they're still in some infant stage. Instar. Whatever the correct genestealer term is. |
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And here we go! At last, the Magus himself. |
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I really like this model, it's a great design nod to the original artwork from the Space Hulk game. Jes Goodwin, was it? Corking stuff either way. I had to dial the facial glow back a bit, he was a bit Juggalo to start with. |
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This one, who had some equally stumpy old-school lead back in the day. |
And that's me done for Advent! Tune in tomorrow for the final door, courtesy of Stylus and his dazzling parade of Christmas Allsorts.
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Get them, my minions! For I can barely walk in all these flouncy robes. |
Yow - that is one impressive selection box. Hope I can rise to the challenge...
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