Gillian & Dog

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Grey

After years of not playing pen and paper RPGs I was asked some time ago to master a new group. I managed to convince the group that an Iron Kingdoms setting was a good choice and two days ago we had our first session.

Have been prepping for weeks and I’m in the process of painting multiple minis for the campaign. The first two minis I finished were the player character Gillian Ashburn, a noblewoman who chose her passion of mechanikal engineering over the demands of her family and standing, and her ‘Jack “Dog”

Thundervale Huntress

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Grey

I’m currently prepping for a new RPG group and do not get around to paint as much as I would like. Did manage to finish the final SDE hero from the Forgotten King box, though – the Thundervale Huntress.

Really loved the idea that they have rune-like markings and had a lot of fun researching runes and coming up with my own designs.

Fae Alchemist

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Grey

The third hero from the Forgotten King box, the Fae Alchemist, was quite a challenge. The last time I painted glass was long ago so I did quite some research to get her potion bottles to look good. Think they turned out quite ok.

Princess Emerald

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Grey

Continuing with the heroes from the Forgotten King box, I chose Princess Emerald as my next painting project. I did not like the mini very much and just wanted to get her done.

Surprisingly I really started to like the mini while painting. She has a strong steampunk vibe which really comes together very well when painted. Like how the hair turned out.

Questing Knight

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Grey

After spending some time painting other chibis I’ve returned to Super Dungeon Explore and finally started painting the Forgotten King heroes. There are sixteen of them and as I want to get them finished before SDE Legends arrives it was about time to start.

First off there is the Questing Knight, one of the four heroes directly from the Forgotten King box. I really liked his original red / green color scheme and tried to get the colors as close to the artwork as possible.

Olaf

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Grey

There was one final Velvet Mark mini I just had to finish before starting with the Forgotten King heroes – Olaf the snowman from Disneys Frozen.

Queen Elsa of Arendelle

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Grey

My plan was to finally start with the Super Dungeon Explore Forgotten King heroes, after finishing Lunara and her Wisp, but there were some extra minis in Marks last package which desperately needed some paint.

Today I present Disneys Snow Queen Elsa.

I wanted to do something special with her cloak and add a glitter effect. Tried some approaches and finally found tiny deco crystals which replicated the effect I was looking for.

Again created SDE Cards for the model, this time based on the stats of the Ember Mage.

: Elsa SDE Card (front)

: Elsa SDE Card (back)

Wisp

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Grey

Another model sculped for me by Velvet Mark – Lunaras wisp companion.

Lunara, First Daughter of Cenarius

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Grey

I’ve invested countless hours in Blizzards Heroes of the Storm. There are more popular MOBAs out there, but after playing Blizzard games for more than a decade a game where all the greatest Blizzard heroes are united is rather special to me.

Among all those great heroes Lunara is my favorite one (although she just got serious competition by Tracer) and Velvet Mark was nice enough to sculpt a chibi version of her for me.

Spend the majority of the last month getting her and her base just right and finally finished her shortly ago. I went with her original colors, though it was very tempting to paint her in her frost dryad scheme.

Also created SDE Cards for her, based on the stats of the Thundervale Huntress.

: Lunara SDE Card (front)

: Lunara SDE Card (back)

Jack Scarecrow

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Grey

Jack Scarecrow, the second Halloween themed mini released late last year by Soda Pop.

Went with the same nmm metal colors for his weapon I used for Scarlet. Again I am happy with the results and I think I will use this approach for all nmm metal weapons from now on.

The scarf was a real challenge. I wanted it to look as close to the original artwork as possible and I think for my first try at a checkered pattern this small it turned out ok.