Elf Druid Player Character

Elven Druid

This new blogger is taking some getting use to. Hard to find where all the buttons are that I used before.

Anyway, here's the latest in the painting up of player character miniatures for my role playing group. This one is an elven druid. The actual miniature is a Reaper Miniatures Elven King if I remember correctly.

The lighting isn't the best because its been pretty overcast today. But with the flash, you should be able to make out most of the painting detail.

On to the next model!

A Barrow Wight

I needed a Barrow Wight armed with an axe for our next role playing session. I had a bunch of Army of the Dead, Lord of the Rings from GW lying around waiting to be painted so fortunately I had the perfect model to represent the Barrow Wight.

A fairly simple paint job later and it was done.

Apologies for the bad photos, but its been raining here pretty much most of the week, so its been hard to get good lighting.

Ready for the gaming table!

Scibor 28mm Dwarf Lord

Roooooooorrrrrrrrrgggggggg!

Meet Rorg, Dwarven barbarian and the latest painted edition to the player characters for our role playing group.

A little too much tanning mix there buddy!

Stuffed if I can remember who the manufacturer is of this excellent dude, but I'm pretty certain that it was Scibor miniatures. Yeap, he is! Found him here.

I left him standing on a stone block as an in-joke among the group. Everyone else is either human or elf, so shorty here feels a little inadequate. As such, I joke that he carries around a lump of stone or a box to stand on so that he doesn't feel so small. This has translated to the miniature the player uses in game.

It gets cold in them there mountains

This is a damn fine piece of work. Scibor do make some nice miniatures and this dude does come with his own rock to stand on. And yes, that is a bear skin (or is it a lion?) that he has made into a rug. PETA be damned! Dwarves don't care. If it comes a knocking looking for a dwarf for lunch, well it should expect that it will wind up being a shoulder rug in the not too distant future.

On to the next miniature!

Sybil from Massive Darkness/Zombicide boardgame

Here's an interesting observation. You would think that with the lock downs due to the pandemic, we all would have more spare time on our hands. Strangely I haven't found that that was the case. Why mention this? Well it just seems like I should have been cranking through my pile of pewter whilst in lock down and yet I have hardly achieved much in the way of painting.

One mini I have recently finished is 'Sybil' from Massive Darkness / Zombicide. This is a miniature being used by one of the players in our role playing group. Given the easing of lock down restrictions, we were finally able to get together to play after five months of isolation.

Anyway, Sybil is painted based on the character in the board game, but with one exception. She is painted as a Dark Elf from Skyrim in keeping with the player character from our D20 game.

Anyway, on with the painting. There's a few more player character's miniatures to get through so here's hoping I can knock some more out to show off. The blog has been a little bare of late.

Skeletal Rat Swarm

Been another busy month despite the forced locked down :( Despite being kept indoors, I haven't had much time to paint. Most of my spare time has been spent on working on the D&Dlite (D20) roleplaying system our gaming group is using. All inspired by Professor Dungeon Master.

On that note. For an upcoming role playing adventure, there is a combat event where the player characters get swamped by skeletal rats. So I looked around the interwebs to see who made this kind of miniature in 28-32mm scale. And there's nothing!

Reaper Miniatures however do make a very cheap rat swarm in their Bones line. So putting my thinking cap on I got to wondering, "What would happen if I painted the rat swarm in black and then painted the skeleton over the top of each rat model?"

Well, it works pretty good. It won't be gracing the pages of any biological text book (and I'm a Biologist!). But its good enough to do the job on the tabletop. And they are cheap too. So you can create a whole swarm of them. Something I will be working on. Cheap AND nasty. Sweet!

WWI Convoy for Victory at Sea

Davco 1:3000 A/B type Merchantmen

Here's the latest addition to the growing Victory at Sea (Age of Dreadnoughts) fleet. These are Davco 1:3000 scale A/B type Merchant freighters. These ones will also be used as colliers. You can get them as part of the Davco coastal convoy here.

Looking at the photos now and I missed just how bad the lighting was. Its dulled the image so that you can hardly tell the different paint on the decks or the green-grey sea colour of the base. Note to self, next time use a flash!

Lets get this convoy moving!

Randalph's Thugs, the Snowmen

Miniatures by Reaper Miniatures

Randalph the Red Nosed Reindeer, who was previously featured in this post, has more than just his Christmas Gremlins (featured in this post) as members of his gang.

Jonas (left), Fredric (center) and Carl (right), the Frosty Brothers

There are also the Frosty Brothers, Jonas, Fredric and Carl who head up a troop of gangster snowman.

They were originally based for another game. Given that they will now be used for role playing, I need to re-base the brothers before the next game.

Group shot. Randalph, the Frosty Brothers, and the Christmas Gremlins

I think these miniatures are by Ral Partha Europe

And here's the rest of the Frosty Gang, just finished. These lads animated by their magical hats. Loose the hat and they become just a normal snowman.

To provide variety of pose, I bent the arms and affixed them at different angles. That simple method made each model more unique, threatening and in motion.

Yes, they are wearing the latest in neck tie fashion