The Sheriff

Well, I survived the over-eating over the holidays and I'm back posting.


This time a master-level character from the City expansion. Anyone can become the Sheriff by demonstrating their strength at the royal castle. After that you get the bonuses and abilities of the master-level character added to your old abilities. Very nice.

My officer of the law is a English civil war sergeant from Warlord Games. Not sure about the sculptor, tho'.


A happy New Year to everyone!

The Werewolf

The Werewolf of the inner region of the Basic gaming board.

Another plastic from Reaper by Ben Siens.

The Dragonet

The Dragonet followers from the Dragons expansion provides useful tips about those fiery beasts. With the Dragonet you can combine strength and craft for combat against dragons.

Metal from Reaper by Kevin Williams.

Arachnophobia, Or A Giant Spider

An 8-legged monstrosity from the Dungeon.

I finally RTFM, and I learned to stop worrying and love the Reaper "Bones" plastic. I had a lot of problems earlier with getting the paint to stick to the plastic. The problem was water. I usually use a rather wet brush, which makes the paint flow better. But with this material even a little water in the paint caused the recesses to repel the paint leaving a very uneven coat. Simply by using a dry brush for the first layer of paint solved the problem. The following layers can be thinned down with water with no problems. The paint sticks very hard, you don't need a coat of primer and you don't need any varnish.

I also like the way the the torchlight came out. I highlighted with a light shade of the colour where the light would fall further away from the light source and then used yellow / orange highlighting close to the torch.

Quite Elemental

More elementals from the City, Water and Air.

Like the Fire Elemental, I left these guys as I painted them, at the tender age of maybe 13-14 years. Enamel paints on unprimed metal. I know, it's lazy of me not to redo them, but remember being so proud of how they turned out, that I don't want to change them.  The minis are oldies from Ral Partha (see 11-427). I also have the Earth Elemental (11-426), but his paint job is too crappy to keep, so he'll be getting a new coat of paint one of these days.

A Ghoul

An enemy from the City expansion. There is also the Ghoul player character in the game, but this mini just isn't cool enough to get that important a role.

A Reaper plastic by James van Schaik.

Mephistopheles

This faustian fiend is an event from the basic game. He grants craft to evil character and for the others, lures them to change their alignment to evil.

A metal mini from Reaper by Julie Guthrie. I tried to make the lava glow, I "reverse drybrushed" the base with an undercoat of white, washed with yellow and then drybrushed with red, grey and finally black. I also added some yellow highlights to the demons feet and the sword as an attempt at reflections of the smouldering magma. Stuff like this is a fun challenge!

The Golem

This unholy mockery of life, stiched together is the Golem, enemy from the expansion set.

Plastic Reaper by James van Schaik. It's hard to see, but he does have bolts in his neck!