13 weeks of painting - Descent 2nd ed. core box with lieutenants [Picture heavy]

[Murmel]

Finally completed my first project! Hurray! It took me thirteen weeks of painting mostly a couple of hours a night on weekdays. I think I managed to paint three nights out of five in most weeks. Here's my log, the log really helped with motivation always being happy to tick something off:

Heroes





Small Monsters







Large monsters





Lieutenants




I also uploaded a few potato quality pictures of my DIY inlay for the box. The small box[14]  keeps everything that is hero-related including tokens, decks, character cards and miniatures. There's room for little baggies that keep loot/skills between adventures. The large box consists of several trays that have room for expansion mini's as well as the ability to removed the upper tray to make room for tiles underneath the remaining tray. That way, I can bring only the monsters needed for the encounters I've prepared and have room for the necessary tiles! I have plans for an Overlord box that keeps all of the overlord's tiles and tokens but I haven't gotten started on that one.

[Steam Flunky]

Nice painting and a lovely choice of colours!

[dijit]

Lovely painting there in some great strong colours! And an impressive yield for only 13 weeks worth of painting.

[beefcake]

Excellent painting. Must be good to play it when everything looks so good.

[gorgarrak]

Fantastic stuff, I've almost finished my copy minus leutenants. You made a good choice rebasing the minis, the clear looks fantastic, I did mine in the conventional manner of sand and grass and the bases warped and had to be redone on slottas, the same thing happened with Legend of Drizzt and a Castle Ravenloft and the rebasing took longer than the painting.

[DeafNala]

I got to do a few of the Descent minis way back when for a friend. They are nice pieces AND yours are WONDERFULLY painted little creations. GREAT WORK!
That game might be a way to get my friend, Cap'n John, interested in painting again...something to think about with Christmas coming.

[Murmel]

Thanks for all the encouraging comments, my very first project that got me into painting miniatures were ZOMBICIDE zombies but I burnt myself after the sixtieth monochrome zombie or so and quit painting for a while until I picked this up. It seemed like a daunting challenge at first but having a maximum of five of the same miniatures really is refreshing and they provide great variety and color! color! You can't imagine how much fun color can be after sixty monochrome zombies. Gah.

A few of you have commented on those colors specifically which I'm happy to read because those cartoony, high contrast color schemes were exactly what I aimed for. The dungeon tiles in Descent are colorful themselves so these guys really have to pop to stand out. The beautiful dungeon tiles is the reason why I rebased all models, that and Descent providing dungeons, swamps, forests... however you base them they are bound to look out of place at some point. These clear acrylic bases prevent that from happening and they do not hide the beautiful tiles.

I haven't played the game in a year and now that it's finally fully painted I look forward to playing it again. My next project consists of a bunch of civilians, militia and treasure piles to complement the game further and replace a bunch of cardboard tokens.