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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the last few weeks i've been working on some miniatures to make up the adventurers in my upcoming 5th Edition Game. I'll be running the game for seven of my friends next weekend, and it seemed like it would be a missed opportunity if I didn't use miniatures for the game! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll take some photos and share how it went, until then I can't share which monsters i'll be using (as those friends read this blog) but you can see here the Adventurers here. From right to left they are, (Back Row) Human Wizard (Sage), Human Barbarian (Outlander), Wood Elf Cleric (Soldier) and (Front Row) NPC Oswald the Overburdened (The Fighter's servant), Dwarf Rogue (Charlatan), Human Fighter (Noble) and Half Elf Bard (Spy).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used Citadels Technical paint, Nurgle Rot for the first time on this model and like all the other Technical paints I've tried this was excellent. In fact these technical paints are the best thing Games Workshop have done in the last ten years in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I tried a new technique of basing the armour with Kommando Khaki building up successive layers of white, unfortunately the photos don't really show this very well. My only available time to photograph my miniatures at the moment is during the hours of darkness (which sounds much more sinister than it is) and its messing with the lighting quite a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm waiting for a delivery of my next character, a Barbarian from Scibor you can see in the photo, i'm going to base him on a regular 30mm base for tabletop and i'll paint the giant head as a display base for when he's not being used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you ever had a real look at your Dungeons & Dragons character's equipment list? The spare sword, the two winter blankets, the cooking pot, half a dozen torches and a lantern, all those extras that every self respecting Adventurer (aka Mobile Murder Machine) needs to survive in style?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well if you have you might want your very own Hireling to follow along after you carrying your possessions, who knows he could do your laundry and cook your meals too if you needed him to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, painting wise he was fairly straightforward, individually each part of the model is simple but the sheer volume of different items to paint really put a strain on my pallette. I only have so many browns afterall and this fella has a ton of pouches, barrels, wooden handles etc. Overall i'm happy with him, I hope you like him too. </span></div>
Miniatures for Roleplayinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10574987799738849475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307624757097524345.post-86500954878051371732014-09-15T16:46:00.000-07:002014-09-15T16:46:21.925-07:00Bones Turanil, Male Elf Paladin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took to calling this one the Pretty Boy Peacock Elf while I was painting him, the shield design is so different to most that you see it was a bit intimidating to start with, but once I began it was really easy to paint the peacock and deceptively easy to just keep adding more and more highlights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With that in mind, the seven characters i'm making up will be fairly stereotypical and hopefully the players will breathe life into them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok first the Scibor Dwarf. This is the first Scibor miniature i've painted and one of the few resins i've ever bought. The sculpting is very clean although not as imaginative as I had thought, a few more details like a belt knife or some more detailed boots would have been nice but the pose is fun and I can't complain about the quality.</span></div>
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Gaming Show in Exeter called Legionary 2014 run by the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ExmouthImperials/?fref=ts" target="_blank"> Exmouth ImperialWargames Club</a> and to finish my latest Bones miniature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(thats a new word, you can all use it but i'm keeping the copyright). And the armour was good, although I did have to change gears a bit as there was going to be just too much iron with too little differentiation between them so I added in a little gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took quite a long time deciding what colour scheme to go for, at one point he was going to have a blue cloak and white robes, I flirted with the idea of painting him as a Drow (but i've seen someone else do that) and i'd fairly well settled on a green selection when I had a moment of inspiration. I would paint him like a Jedi from Tatooine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That gave me two problems, first the necessity of Olympic grade wrist contortionism to get to the underbelly and secondly the sheer weight of holding the dragon, a block of wood and a great big stone for the duration of the paint job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few weeks ago when I was thinking about how I was going to base Ebonwrath when he arrived I bought some glitter from Ebay. Its 0.4mm circular gold glitter which looks just about right for coins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't painted a large scale dragon for many years but included with my Vampire reward from the Reaper Kickstarter was Ebonwrath and I've decided that he deserved quite a lot of time and attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As usual I searched for inspiration on Google and on the covers of my book collection and finally decided to paint this wonderful miniature to represent Onyx (aka Khisanth<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">from the Dragonlance Chronicles</span>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The base is going to be rather time consuming. I didn't want to paint the dragon really well but have a less than impressive base so bought an old 2nd hand trophy from a junk shop and ripped the (very ugly) faux bronze statue off. A layer of milliput formed the base for my little scene and on top of that I added one of the chests from the Vampire set, some weapons and other scenic bits & pieces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So far so good, lots more to do still though before I even get started on the Dragon! Stay tuned for part 2 soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shamelessly followed the same colours as the Original Shadow that inspired this character. Like most roleplayers my character is quite important to me and i've put some thought into the details that surround him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His guns are twin long barrelled Chrome automatics and The Crow (his faithful, but mysterious sidekick) drives them around in a 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom, in my opinion one of the most beautiful cars ever made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With over 200 Bones Miniatures still to chose from, deciding which one to paint next is the biggest problem i'm facing at the moment. And with not having to prime them I suspect i'm not going to enjoy preparing metal miniatures when I have to go back to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well this one is an Ettin, and he (or is it they?) have quite a lot of skin to cover. I haven't been very happy with the skin colours i've got at the moment, i've been using Citadel Eldar Flesh but its a bit yellow. So I experimented with a mix of 1:1:3 Dwarf Flesh : Ushabti Bone : flow improver. It gave a rather nice pinkish tone which I like and i'll be using it some more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I deliberately restricted the colour palette on this one as the model has a lot going on and I didn't want to detract from its character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The base was one of the larger Tiny Worlds resin slate ones i've had for a while and the more I use them the harder it is to accept anything less. They're just so easy to work with, they complement the Bones figures (which i've mentioned are incredibly easy to drill & pin) really well and look wonderful. The monster sized 40mm bases work out at about 60p each with the normal 30mm bases cost 35p each but make any miniature look a whole lot better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted my Eye Beast to look like the Eye of Flame variant Beholder from Dungeons & Dragons so started with a mid brown base with a wash of Reikland Fleshshade to bring the red tone up. Over this I dry brushed a light khaki then washed with Agrax Earthshade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Eyes started with a creamy off white with radial spikes of red brown pointing towards the pupil which was pure black then a wash of gloss varnish finished them off. I wanted the teeth to look really rank so they got several washes of dirty brown grading up to pure white at the tips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One point I would make is that its much easier to paint the inside of the model if you take the two sections apart first. Once the dark red gums and tongue were painted I reassembled it and painted the rest. I wanted the tongue to look really human which I thought would make it look even more horrible and i'm pleased with how it worked out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think the Gold needs more sparkle though and the sword blade isn't as smooth as I wanted, thats mostly due to me not knowing when to stop. It looked great after the fourth wash but I thought it needed a brighter highlight and that led to a lot of reworking and now it looks a little rough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This time I started with a darker tan colour as my base for the gold which I think is the right choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starting with a Grey base gives a hard and slightly dirty white which wouldn't have complemented the gold armour very well. The other alternative would be to start with a blue white base but this gives a very artificial white which works well for Sci Fi but not for fantasy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The base is another Tiny Worlds Slate resin base with layers of different colour washes built up, it could do with a little more work to be honest so I might come back to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you like it, please comment if you would like any more information about colour choices or techniques and i'll be happy to share.</span></div>
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