Dark Souls

So I got snowed in recently and decided it was as good a time as any to speed paint through all of my Dark Souls minis.  These were kinda fun due to easy and limited color palettes on each mini and the sculpts really are quite good for the most part.

Apparently the art direction in Dark Souls includes a lot of drab grey colors so all the characters kind of look alike.

The armor sets were a bit more fun especially the adventurers set.

But the summons and Invader minis were simple spray paint shading with a dry brush.

The 3d props were a nice little inclusion to replace the cardboard markers.  The mimic is a really fun sculpts some of these I wish I could just get seperate for use in other games.

Plenty of basic enemies to play with!

Most of the bosses or mini bosses were easier to paint than anything else.  A lot of them only had 2 colors.

I wishes they had sculpted some fire on the smelter demon.

This was one of my favorite sculpts in the game.  They took some extra time on Sif and its easy to paint a little personality into him.

Old Smough doesn't event get a two color treatment per his original color scheme.

The dancer's veil was a weird one to do because its so thick on the model but thin in the actual game. 

Again they seme to dislike sculpting fire for some reason and the 'fire' on the blade wasn't really even there for the most part.  Not sure why they missed this opportunity.

The four kings really are as easy to paint as they look.

The Gaping Dragon was my favorite by far.  It doesn't really show up on pics very well but the oily skin turned out great after spraying the model with some purple, orange and teal in patches and just covering it in washes galore to darken it back down.

And thats it not a lot of challenge in painting this game but it was pretty fun.  The board game isn't amazing but it isn't terrible either.  As a fan of the video games though I just couldn't resist painting this one.

Dungeon Time Again!

It's time to head back to Warhammer Quest territory!  We've started up a new campaign and are happily chugging through Lustria in our quest for wealth and or fame (really infamy more than anything).

I never did get to painting all the Lustria monster encounters so its time to get to work!

First up is our new Elven Ranger.  The original ranger never really felt right as a character and felt like it needed to be either re-worked (into actually being a ranger!) or split up into a ranger/spell sword type of class.

The lizards were a fun evening of splashing colors all over.

Which inspired this bright and cheery set of spider riders!

These savage orc models are a lot more fun to paint than I thought they would be.  Lots of little detail but not over the top like newer GW models.

I was going for a more purple look to the saurus but they ended up a purple pink.  Either way at least they are bright!

Really really bright...

The mystik boss and forest goblin boss are both from the arachnorok spider kit.

Yellow skinks are fun, maybe I should have chosen a different color board to put them on though.

The old forest goblin models are really cute.

In fact most of the old goblin models are just a joy to paint and have a lot of character.

Finally a few dark elf executioners.  It really seems though that as soon as I paint up a set of monsters they inevitably don't show up in the next adventure and instead are replaced with monsters I haven't finished yet.  Very annoying!

The Lands of More-Dwarf!

Because painting beards is just a great hobby for anyone, I painted more! 

The bullwarkers are finished up and I have my own shiny horde of dwarfy spear people!

Mantic's steel behemoth was a must have and provides a nice centerpiece in an infantry heavy army.

The army has finally grown into a real army now and I'm really liking the progress.

Rats, Foiled Again!

I wanted to start running a horde army and since the Ratkin were halfway there I decided to get them finished up in only 2 weeks time for a meetup.  Jokes on me because I should have played forces of nature, then maybe it wouldn't have dumped winter apocalypse all over and canceled the meetup...

I quickly threw together a 2000 point list that I thought I could scrounge together in time.  Do note that most of these models were already painted from previous projects and just needed some bases build and a few extra models to flesh out the unit.  It wasn't all started from scratch in 2 weeks!

The brutes have been expanded to a horde and feel much more dangerous now.

I used plague censers and poison wind rats to fill in the Blight and make a horde of those!

Reaper kobolds and various things were quickly scavanged for a slave horde.

Two troops of clawshots because no matter how bad they perform for me they seem ok on paper...

My only death engine for now painted up several years ago.

These spear rats have been languishing unused for a long time, still need to add some moss around the movement tray though...

The only real reason I want to run this army of coarse is the demon rat of happy fun times!

I had about 12ish metal stormvermin before starting this horde so this took the most time by far.  

The warriors were already done and now just need some moss around the edges.

And of coarse a group shot of the whole army.  Most of it was going into 2k points but a few things were just left out for lack of room.  Nice to have a solid start to the army though now.