From TeemuL: The Good and the Bads of Menzoberranzan (27 points)

Today I present you another squirrel from my collection, some drows (dark or black elfs) from the Forgotten Realms, one of the fantasy worlds of ADD. These are from The Legend of Drizzt Board Game, a simple dungeon crawler from FFG. Drows are basically bad guys, forced to live underneath by the noble elfs. They are bittered, murderous, selfish etc. However there is one (at least) good guy, the legendary Drizzt Do'Urden, who escaped the dungeon city of Menzoberranzan after murdering one of his kin. He has conscious, which makes him different from other drows. He has few friends, a dwarf, a halfling, couple of humans, magic panther and so on, but because of his race, he is usually not trusted and people like to keep distance.

Most of them have purple eyes (the middle one has blue eyes)

From left to right, Drow Wizard, Drizzt and 3 Drow Duellists. The Duellists are similar with strange clothing, which I couldn't figure out, so I just splashed some colors and made them look a bit different. I tried to use dark, sinister and dramatic colors, the evil guys usually like that sort of thing and they are game pieces, so they need to be easily seen.

The backside of the bad guys, the blue guy has all blue overall, the other two have different colors in front and back. Wizard has fancy fur cloak. All have similar white hair, which I achieved painting Leviadon Blue Contrast over white and then heavily drybrushing with white. Simple, but it works.

The bad guys

Here is an angled view and Duellists have quickly rearranged themselves. The cobblestone effect is rather nice and easy to achieve as well. This time I painted the base black and then used dark grey (Mechanicus Standard Grey) to paint irregular roundish shapes. After that dried I took a lighter grey (Light Grey from Coat d'Arms) to paint a narrow line on one of the edges on the each stone, all in the same edge to create illusion of 3D stones. Sometimes I paint the base dark grey and then separate the stones with black lines before the light grey edge. This is easier, I think, and looks better and not that systematic. Painting tiles would work that way, I believe.

In couple of sources it is said that Drizzt has green cloak, so I painted the cloak green. That is just two layers of Contrast paint, so all the shadows and edges come from the paint pot, not from my skills.

Drizzt Do'urden

Just the metals (like the scimitars Twinkle and Icingdeath of Drizzt) are painted with metallics and the base with regular paints, everything else is Contrasts.

That is 5 ADD Boardgame 28mm minis, so 25 points total

My personal Squirrel count: 8

- 20mm Napoleonic

- 28mm Sludge

- 28mm Pulp

- 28mm Warhammer 40000 Xenos

- 28mm General (including Gloranthan) Fantasy

- 1:300 Cruel Seas

- 6mm Epic Imperial Fists

- 28mm ADD Boardgame

From Millsy:

You're a painting machine Teemu! Three posts in one day, all from completely different subjects and scales is quite something.

I really like how you've gone about painting your Drow. I always imagine them as drab and dark so it's a change of pace to see some painted in a more bright palette. It challenges my preconceptions which is great. The basing is great too, and worth another couple of points for the execution. Nice one mate!