This fellow is more of a general adventuring type, perhaps a rogue, maybe a sorcerer, up to no good or perhaps on a mission for justice. Not sure at all what range he is from, again he popped up in the pile of wretched lead, most of which was inherited from varied people unloading miniatures.

Another mini for the Sorceress issue

Still working on some more minis for the sorceress of Zhaan issue photoshoot.

Since Iron is so rare in the Winterlands a full suit of plate like this would be made of Bronze. So I'm trying to find some good ways to bring that across in the painting.

For the sword this warrior may have been able to afford steel, or been able to steal it, but more likely it would be a bronze sword plated in silver for a more impressive look and to terrify his enemies into thinking it is steel.

Enjoy.

~Ripley

Here's another Winterlander warrior mini painted for the Sorceress of Zhaan. Still working on blending and color choices.

On most of the minis for this set I've chosen a bright Ivory/Yellow as the brightest highlight color, and blend up to that color highlight for almost all the areas of the mini to pull all the colors together and make all the minis appear to be in a the same gloomy dimly torch lit room.

Enjoy!

~Ripley

Painting minis for LoSS

Finally have a few things I can show to all my Blood Reavers!

The refinery build is moving right along, but I need some heroes and enemies to populate it.

So into the bucket of wretched lead to find a few fellows that would be suitable for the Sorceress of Zhaan Lair.

The first one to finish is this fine gent! A popular mini in it's time I inherited him in a pile of other minis, can't remember who though. He had a red cloak when he started and after a repaint he still does.

And because it's just not old school unless it has a thick unbreakable coat of glossy varnish, he's got that too!

More will appear as I finish them up.

Enjoy my Blood Reavers!

~Ripley

Painting "good enough" miniatures

It's miniature time again. As promised, here is how to paint miniatures (or toys) just good enough to get them on the table. Because let's face it. Taking weeks to paint up a few miniatures is a huge commitment of time to use them for only a few hours on the weekend. But they do look a little cooler so lets see how we can speed that up by just painting them good enough.

I also want to show you that you don't need to spend a lot to paint your miniatures. Really nice brushes cost money, really good miniature paints cost alot now too.

Updates...

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, I've been completely sucked into making up this newest scenario for Lair, I'm writing up the new one in the new format and will go back and reformat burrower before publishing.
I've found a system that works finally and I'm loving it, I've also been highly distracted by the batch of mini's I got for Lair, I've been looking for the perfect, easily replicated by anyone, painting system for my Lair minis and I've hit something that works so good I'm shocked.

Instead of painting them like unique little snowflakes like I would for my Warhammer army I struck upon a technique that makes them look just like prepainted toy soldiers from the 70's. If we toys r us would have sold prepainted d&d minis back in the 70's, it would look just like this.

I'll post some pics once I'm through the next couple of batches, for now I'm off to finish up some maps!

I wish I could just put out burrower now so you guys could enjoy but the party hasn't "playtested" the last area yet.
And unfortunately it's only about an hour of content so I want to have the next adventures ready to go as soon as it's wrapped up so we don't just sit around for the rest of the night.

See you all soon!

~Ripley