Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Frostgrave undead and construct)

[DeafNala]

There are some endearing smiles in that group of Rogues. WONDERFUL WORK as always!

[Hobgoblin]

Many thanks, all!

Here's an experiment (following the example of  last beastman). I've got a few of these recent GW orks kicking around. I have many more of the metal ones from first-edition 40K (everyone called it that, and no one called it "Rogue Trader", at least as far as I remember) and prefer those. But I want to get the later ones out of the plastic pile, so have been thinking about how to do them quickly. Their signature feature is their teeth, so I wanted to find a really quick way of painting them that would emphasise those. So, black undercoat, drybrushing in burnt umber, flat earth and silver-grey, and then some metal drybrushing for weapons and armour and a wash or two over other sections.

The result's hardly stellar, but it was very quick and it does give me a shadowy, hulking form with big, sharp teeth. So I'll do the other six or seven I have in the same way.

[Hobgoblin]

And here's another villainous type, done in the same way.

The three of them make an ugly little band of sinister road agents.

[Severian]

Those look great! The contrast with the bases works especially well and sets off the figures' colours a treat.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

My son got Shadespire from his grandparents for Christmas, so he and I have been painting the miniatures. He's painting the knights purple (!), while I'm dealing with the chaos warriors. The aim is to get them all done tomorrow or the next day, so it's real short-cut time. This is a WIP on one of the chaos chaps:

[beefcake]

Cool. I'll be interested in hearing how Shadespire goes.

[Hobgoblin]

Cheers! He needs a bit of neatening up, but he's more or less done now - enough to move onto the others. No idea yet how the game plays, but we'll find out shortly ...

[Maxromek]

Shadespire is actually really good. I've been having a blast for 2 months now.

Also, great paintjob, as always

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Games of OGRE, Labyrinth, Pulp Alley and Sellswords & Spellslingers mean that we haven't yet got to Shadespire yet, but we'll probably tackle it tomorrow.

We're having a mercifully quiet Hogmanay as my wife's doing a triathlon tomorrow. So we bowed out early from a party, allowing me to complete a last miniature for 2017 (ahead of a wee dram at midnight). I started him three years or so ago, but fun with Sellswords & Spellslingers today (including the death of both my starting PCs) convinced me that we need more dwarfs. Here's the first:

[von Lucky]

Papa Smurf! Nice painting.

[Hobgoblin]

Papa Smurf! Nice painting.

Ha! I hadn't thought of that! Cheers!

[beefcake]

That's a very nice pj. Papa smurf 
Where is that mini from?

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

He's one of Citadel's Northern Dwarves. I've since corrected the black spots on his beard (which were all but invisible to the naked eye).

[Hobgoblin]

Here's a curio of even greater vintage: a Citadel Salaman from the Fiend Factory series. I'd started him ages ago but decided to finish off with Sellswords & Spellslingers in mind, as he'll be easy to stat up as a PC with the Amphibious trait.

He's a very softly detailed old miniature with lots of "what is that, exactly" about his accoutrements and armour. And his eyes have that most annoying feature of old models: depressions for pupils. Still, he's done now ...

[beefcake]

Another nice addition. Cool skintone.
Thanks for the info on the dwarf. Doubtful I'll grab one seeing as it is OOP.