From KeithS: A Postscript of Painting (75 pts)

In addition to lots of adventurer figures, I managed to make a dent in my other backlog pile that's been taking up space in my workspace.  First up, a wolf pack consisting of nine wolves scaled for 25mm, give or take.  At least three are Heritage as they match the Warg cavalry I painted for the nostalgia entry a few weeks back.  The rest are Ral Partha, I believe.  The Heritage are definitely the best.  I love their expressiveness.

From the flank:

A close-up.  I gave most red eyes (per Tolkien) but the three heritage got blue eyes, as somehow that seems more evil to me.

So, while working on them I happened to look down through my magnifier to see this -- a little unnerving to have him staring back at me!

Next up a few minor bits.  My wife has started playing D&D after a mere 20 years of being together.  Her character has a dog companion and a magic owl now.  Happily, I had both sorts of figures in my collection, so here they are:

The family portrait with the figure best representing my wife's Elf thief (a figure from my previous Adventurers batch):

This guy is another 32mm by Mithril for their Middle Earth line.  He's way too big to fit with my other adventurers, so I decided I could use him as a Viking warlord for use with my 28mm figures.  He's pretty tall even next to them, but not unreasonably so.  Further, I really like the sculpt and want to use him for something.  So, maybe not 100% historically accurate, but I'm not too worried about it.

Another miscellaneous guy, a Minotaur based for outdoors.  I'm sort of wishing I'd done him with a dungeon basing now, but oh well.

And, last but not least, I bought a small herd of Aurochs at the last Fall In convention in Pennsylvania with the vague idea I could use them as decoration for a Saga game.  I finally got to them this week.  They're big (should've put a 28mm figure for scale) but not too tough to paint, except that I have minimal skill yet on blending patches of different shades of hide.  Still working on that, though its hard to see the lighter underbodies in this photo.

That's it -- a productive two weeks to be sure!

A host a various beasties that is for sure.  I like the idea of the wolf pack - and yes they are very expressive.