Plague Rat (54 of 400)

Another month, and another miniature done.  At this rate I'll be painting them for another thirty years!  I definitely need to get on the stick here.  But at least this little fellow turned out okay, although I was thinking maybe I ought to have made him all one color, like a naked mole rat.  But this looks appropriately gross enough, and I'm pretty sure there's another one running around in there if I want to do something different next time.

P.S. Merry Christmas!

Hellhound (53 of 400)

It has been months since I posted to this blog, not because I haven't been painting miniatures, but I haven't been painting Reaper Bones miniatures from my various Kickstarters.  Well, that ends today with this Hellhound.

He turned out pretty well, although I think the bone spikes in the middle of the flames are a weird sculpting decision (I noticed some people just painted them as flames instead). Hellhounds are such good brutes to back up a major villain that this figure will likely see plenty of action.

Happy Thanksgiving, by the way, and thanks for looking!

Halbarand (52 of 400)

Another very useful "PC" miniature, this time a cleric wielding a hammer and some sort of holy tome chained to his neck.  Not the most complex paint job--I didn't bother doing up the armor really fancy aside from adding some jewels to the designs on the shoulders and thighs.

Comments welcome!

Trista, the White Wolf (51 of 400)

I'm continuing with my painting up figures that could serve players for their characters.  Here's a fighter or paladin or something similar.  It's a good looking suit of armor and shield with the wolf motif used throughout.

Definitely need to add some guys to the roster...

Alistrilee, elf archer (50 of 400)

I've done other "ranger" figures, even female ranger figures, but they are handy (and easy to paint).  This one, Alistrilee, is a nice figure except that she has a really weird face.  That is, unless elves have pronounced Saturnine features.  But all that aside, I think the paint job turned out okay, and for a change I actually painted in the eyes, which are not my strong suit.

I'm going to try to pad out the number of "PC" miniatures I have just so they can be available to players down the line.

Spiders (45-49 of 400)

I got a little time this holiday weekend to paint so I banged out these spiders. I used the color scheme of the brown recluse spider with a high contrast base color. 

It is always good to stock up on standard dungeon vermin I think!

Skeleton Guardsman and Swordsmen (42-44 of 400)

I'm getting more of these skeletons finished, specifically three more. Now that these guys are finished, I'm feeling like something different. But first, a group shot:

Gauntfield (41 of 400)

With all these skeletons I'm painting, I thought I needed a "boss monster" of some kind.  "Gauntfield" is some kind of undead scarecrow.  I have to say, I'm truly pleased with how this paint job turned out.  For these bones it has great detail, and a good ink wash really helps a lot.

I'm almost done with the skellies with just a few more to go.  Then maybe some kind of graveyard adventure?

Skeleton Axeman and Archers (38-40 of 400)

Three pretty straightforward paint jobs on these guys. I like the extra sculpting detail on the guy on the right. 

I have done quite a few skeletons now. I think they need to start battling adventurers!

Goldar, Male Barbarian (37 of 400)

So I've got from running a D&D game to being a player in the same campaign under a different GM.  I am playing a barbarian, so of course I needed a good PC miniature.  This is Goldar (what's with that name), an easy-to-paint mini that looks good without too much trouble.

Almost at the 10% mark, perhaps by the next post.

Barnabus Frost, Pirate Captain (36 of 400)

Cruising right along with some new paint jobs.  This is Barnabus Frost, the pirate captain from their Pirates collection in the Bones I Kickstarter.

This was the first Bones miniature I painted that wasn't primed.  A lot of people have been saying it is unnecessary and maybe even a bad idea.  I'm not sure--it's hard to get the paint to coat evenly.  Thoughts appreciated.

Bronzeheart, Minotaur Hero (35 of 400)

Wow, another one.  It's like I've gone crazy painting or something. This is Bronzeheart, a Minotaur hero.  He's a solid figure, and not too complicated.  I had a player with a Minotaur barbarian PC and this guy would have been a perfect miniature for him.

Lizardman Warrior (34 of 400)

A quick glance says I haven't updated this blog since September.  Yikes!

Not my greatest work, but some times you have to just get a win easy ones in before you can get back up to steam.  Not a bad figure, but I'm impressed at how much detail some painters can get out of these things.

Anyways, we are back underway on this task, at least for now.