Flame Atronach from Reaper Miniatures

Our D20 role playing game has magic based on Skyrim. As such, I needed a Flame Atronach for one of the player characters who has the spell Conjure Flame Atronach. The spell creates a flame atronach that lasts for five rounds and orbits the caster. It throws flame bolts and if its killed before the five rounds expires, it explodes doing 3D6 damage. Fun stuff!

Reaper miniatures makes an excellent flame elemental both in plastic and also in metal. It comes with wings that attach to the back. If you don't glue on the wings, you get a pretty good miniature to represent a Flame Atronach.

By way of proof, just have a look at the Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion version of the Flame Atronach and then compare it to the Reaper Miniature and you will see that its a good proxy model.

Painting was pretty simple too. I just followed this process:

* base coat in white spray

* paint in bright yellow

* wet brush in orange

* heavily dry brush in red

* light dry brush in black over certain areas of the model and paint in black the "clothes" and "face mask" on the model.

Simple!

RuneMage from HeroForge in 28mm

Well, I did it again! Chalk up another dead player character!

This brings the total now to seven killed player characters in our role playing group over the last two years, including one total party kill (TPK). Pretty impressive, and I'm not really even trying!

Peridun was a RuneMage for our D20 role playing game. We play a hybrid D20 that brings together elements of Old School D&D, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and D&D 5e and sets it in a Warhammer sort of world. Basically its a home brew Grim Dark D20 and its living up to its reputation for killing off characters.

So, funny story. I had just about finished painting this miniature for the player when the character up and got himself killed by a Barrow Wight. I mean, the never of it all! It takes me ages to paint these things and then he gets killed next gaming session :). I was going to finish off the base before I posted photos of the painted mini but seeing he's dead and all, kind of no point now.

Anyway, the original mini is plastic and made by HeroForge 1.0. I backed the HeroForge 2.0 kickstarter but am still awaiting the arrival of my free mini. Hopefully it hasn't disappeared down the pandemic black hole. Anyway, the point being that I could have just "painted" it using HeroForge 2.0 but seeing that this one had been sitting around from prior to the Kickstarter I decided to try to finish it off. Then he snuffed it!

You just can't trust player's, can you? I mean all that effort and now its back to the drawing board. Its not like I had anything to do with the character's death being the Game Master and all. Honestly, I swear!

Ok, back to painting up another mini. Hopefully I will finish that one before another of my players kills another one of their characters.

Elf Mage

Another player character's miniature is finished for our role playing game.

This one is another Reaper Miniatures model.

On to the next one!

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.