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.

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!