Tuesday, 23 February 2016

From: PaulS : Painting did occur after all... (104 points)

Given the lack of updates over the last few weeks, I was worried I wouldn't get anything done this week either (you can blame Lego Dimensions for that!), but it turns out I did manage to get a few bits completed after all!

To kick start things this week we have 4 new heroes from Dungeon Saga. Left to Right we have the enhanced version of the wizard, the enhanced version of the halfling thief, Valendor (a spirit of magic... or some such thing) and finally the standard version of the halfling thief.


From the group shot you can clearly see the size differences between the halflings. The standard version is almost a quarterling instead she's so small!

Next up we have a selection of cultists made using the Frostgrave cultists pack. I absolutely adore these plastics... cultists are always useful in many different settings. These guys have been painted up in the same colours as my pulp cultists (which I'll put into a group shot on my blog later in the week)


After the cultists, we have two creatures from Shadows of Brimstone. Handily, if you paint them white, they work nicely as some of the snow creatures in Frostgrave too. Here you can see them in scale with poor Helga, who is penned in by the giant spiders too (see further down!)


They have strange crystal growths coming out of their backs. No wonder they are cranky!

The spiders are from Mantic's dungeon critters set. Along with the rats and bats from last time, these are the nicest Mantic kit I've seen. Ever. Each spider is slightly different. some are black with red markings; others are furry brown



For a week that I thought was going to be pretty quiet, that turned into 10 28mm heroes/villains, two giant monsters and 8 giant spiders.  


It's posts like these that make me appreciate Curt's adjudication over the last few Challenges - deciding how to score "off-size" critters fairly is not an easy job. I think I'll score the two snow monsters as 40mm and count the spiders as 28mm. That comes to 104 points for this submission.

Nice painting on all of these Paul - especially the death's head on that spider :)

19 comments:

  1. Really great submission, and some great photos

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  2. Love the death head spider and the characters

    Ian

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  3. Everything you paint turns out beautifully and our photography is excellent. I like all of these figures but especially the spiders and the big white guys with the crystals on their backs.

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    1. Thanks! The spiders have had to be hidden now they are finished as my wife kept seeing them out of the corner of her eye and jumping for a glass to catch them ;)

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  4. Very nice indeed Paul! The cultists are cool but the skull motif on the spider is awesome.

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    1. Thanks! The skull almost never happened... I'm glad it did now!

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  5. The colours on the cultists are excellent I would not have thought of them yet they work so well.

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    1. Thanks! I'm not sure where the idea for the blue came from originally. I think last year when I was painting some pulp cultists blue was the only other paint on the palette at the time and I couldn't be bothered to find another... Thankfully the combination worked :D

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  6. Great work Paul. I really like those Halflings.

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  7. Love those snow Creatures, great work all around.

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    1. Thanks. They go to join the one from last year, hunting vikings

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  8. Great work, cool figures. That Valendor is really something.

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    1. Yep. It is *something* alright... Oh you meant that in a good way! Thanks! ;)

      It isn't a nice model at all when you get up close. The detail is nearly non existent and the proportions are all over the place. If you are tempted by one I know where you can get one already painted ;)

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  9. Well done on all that stuff! Those spiders are ace.

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  10. Very well done on them all, Paul! The spiders are really cool- doesn't a death head indicate a spider who likes hugs?
    I like the cultists very much, that is a nice color palete. Those halfling sculpts are really nice too!

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