More Questing In Norsca

   Still going though a back log of photos.  Finally got a painting station up in the new house so I can get back to work too!  Just about have the rules for Norsca finished up as well just working on the adventures themselves now.

I really liked these Bestigor miniatures.  Just the right amount of details to distinguish them from the basic beastmen but not so much to become gaudy and overdone.

GW's chaos hounds though maybe could have used a few more mutations but I wasn't going to go through and add tentacles at this point.

Added a new chaos spawn this one from Reaper miniatures.  Love having some mythos in the dungeon now.

In Norsca generally everything gets worse for the party so now there are chaos warriors mounted on juggernauts.

Cultists are a fun addition to Norsca (and my Kings of War Abyssal army).  They are a group spellcasting enemy that has a chance to summon daemons often at the expense of their own lives.

I went a little crazy with colors on the Chaos Forsaken models.  I really wanted to have them stand out on the board as something horribly mutated.

Last but not least are the He-Man like Marauders.  Fune models for sure as painting goes lots of flesh tones to work with.

Ogres of Norsca

 Delving further into the Warhammer Quest painting I managed to get a start on my ogre army for Kings of War as well.  Nothing is fully based yet so there's plenty of work to do before fielding them but they are ready for WHQ for sure:

The butcher just called for fake blood, don't judge...

Purple fire for the firebelly was fun to do.

Picked up this D&D mini's giant years ago and now he serves as our frost giant.

The gnoblars were fished out of a bucket of parts from some used ogres I acquired

I decided to add an icey back to the gorger just to make it a little more themed with the rest of the ogres.

More purple!  The hunter model has a lot of fun little details too a very enjoyable model to paint.

Found this toy monster at a michaels and turned it into our Ice Wyrm

Big weapons for the Iron Guts.  A lot of the metal in these ogres has been given a slight purple shading as a theme.

The ogre iron gut hero with a giant shield, eventually he will be part of my siege breakers for KoW.

The leadbelchers turned out alright with the matches having a real contrast to the frozen skin.

Gotta have a mammoth for norsca and for an ogre army!  This was a reaper miniature recently'ish' released.

Mournfangs really are much bigger models than I thought they would be.  Still adding purple fur wherever I can for this theme!

Regular old Ogre bulls this time in a cold flavor.

For the ogre hero I used the executioner maneater which is a fantastic model but I had lost the original top of the weapon so I had to improvise.

a poor man's rhinox, those things just cost way too much for me to bother with anymore.

More Questing

 Its been a very long time but I have some photos banked that need editing and posting so here's the lastest batch of Warhammer Quest monsters finished up for Lustria, Norsca and Sewers.

With the baby stegadon already done here's the ancient stegadon

The Behemoth spider has been in a near complete stage for ages but now its finished.

I really didn't like the chaos dragon model when I originally put it together but I gained an appreciation for it while painting for sure.  Lots of little details and fun surprises.

The cygor was fun to paint just a spray gradient and pick out details.

Picked up another stegadon to have an engine of the gods without dealing with a magnet nightmare

For Norsca the Level 11 encounters can result in exalted greater daemons.  A very rare thing but I did have models for them so first up the Bloodthirster from ultraforge (think they are troll forge now).

From the same company the great unclean one.  Went for a very pale scheme on this one really like how it turned out.

The keeper of secrets complete with chrome pool beneath.

And from Mierce miniatures a lord of change, this guy is buff and massive!

Again to avoid magnet nightmares I got a seperate ghorgon even though being gargantuan monsters they can never appear alongside the cygor model.

I realized I had used the original mummies in my Empire of Dust army so I used these frankly awesome looking mantic mummies for quest

The sewers introduced a mythic troll just because we always need more trolls.

Plague Drones now show up in Norsca adding some variety to the daemon roster.

Rat swarms are fun not only pinning warriors down but making it difficult for others to aid them without accidently striking their own allies who are engulfed in rats.

I've got a surprising amount of Slaan for Lustria, still more to come...

And the Yheeti's finish off this batch of pics 

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.