Painting unicorns, with a special guest...My wife! :)

 My wife always said she'd never put paint to brush and apply it to miniatures yet here we are, painting unicorns side by side...It could be the beginning of a beautiful thing! ;) Will have another update showing the finished products!

 Also, I wanted to show off my coffee mug...How cool is that?! Wal-Mart photo center for the win. :)

Reaper Bones Hellborn Troll or Frost Troll

 Sometimes you just need to paint brightly colored trolls and this was one such case! I'm not sure what it is but I like painting wildly colored trolls. I have three other trolls painted up, Blue, Purple, and Green...Now we can add Orange! Eventually I want to paint up another one of these sculpts as an ice troll, as the actual Reaper Bones model suggests it is...Although the metal one is actually a Hellborn troll. Whatever! Regardless, I love the sculpt and he didn't turn out too bad. :)

Me smash face wit' rock!

Originally the entire back was black but my wife pointed out to me that there should be an orange patch...I knew I married her for a reason! ;)

The first of the Bones 2 minis painted! Chaos Warrior and Mushroom Men!

 I had a busy weekend but still managed to paint up seven figures...That's plain amazing for me! Really excited about a lot of these new Bones 2 sculpts. The first guy I knew I had to paint was the Hellknight Order of the Nail...

 I always loved the old GW Chaos Knights and their wild color schemes, so this is paying homage to them!

Bones 2 has arrived!

UPS just dropped this bundle of joy! Woot! Now to start sorting it tomorrow with the help of the wife. :) What a great way to spend Valentine's Day, right?

The thief and the necromancer...

Sneaky thief makes his approach...from behind...

A couple more painted minis. The necro is particularly well sculpted and came out great in Bones form. I might have to paint up another one. He kind of reminds me of Allanon from the first Shanara trilogy, if you've ever read them you'd know what I mean. ;)

Reaper Bones Necromancer

Slipshadow the thief Reaper (Metal)

After a long camping trip, here's an update!

Grave Wraith by Reaper (Bones).

 This guy actually saw some action in a game of Song of Blades and Heroes. While he got killed in the end, he managed to scare some goblins! I was inspired by some old GW books I had and decided to paint my ghosts up like those. Simply a light green with a heavy wash of green. I thought it turned out well, so I went ahead and painted ten more! They kind of remind me of something from Ghost Busters.

Spirit Reaper (Bones)

Ghost Reaper (Bones)

Lurien, Ghost Reaper (Metal)

Arrius, Skeletal Warrior Reaper (Bones)

 Really liked how this guy turned out. I painted him up as one of the personalities for my Undead force for Song of Blades and Heroes. He hasn't seen battle yet but hopefully soon!

Skeleton Warriors Reaper (Bones)

Did some slight converting with these guy's weapons. Swapped most of them out for some GW weapons.

Goblin Archers Reaper (Bones)

 This guys may seem like mooks but they actually slaughtered most of my Undead army in a game of SoBaH! Crafty little buggers!

Ghostly Summons Reaper (Bones)

Night Spectre Reaper (Bones)

Ghost Kings Reaper (Bones)

  And finally, we have these guys. I wanted a wight, so I went with the guy on the left. Then I got to painting a bunch of ghosts and thought he'd look cool all ghostly, and succeeded! :D

A week's worth of work! Mostly Reaper Bones.

 It's been a long and hot week but I got a lot accomplished both on the miniatures front and scenery for my Song of Blades and Heroes set. Without further delay, here's some of my work this week, enjoy!

Reaper Sir Justin slightly converted rendition of the Ultima VIII Avatar. I saw this figure and knew I had to paint him as the Avatar! :)

I shaved off and filed the shield device cross that was on the shield originally.

Reaper Bones Treasure Chest

Reaper Bones Battleguard (copper)

Reaper Bones Battleguard (Steel)

Reaper Bones Flesh Golem

Another Reaper Bones Flesh Golem

Reaper Bones Stone Golem...I actually did two of these identical to each other. I figure I can use them as terrain as well!

Reaper Bones Zombies...Really looking forward to the Bones 2 wave of zombies!

First Song of Blades and Heroes match, The Sexy Nuggets vs The Mullet Mashers

 Tonight I played my first game of Song of Blades and Heroes by Ganesha Games against my fiancee. She played as a mix of humans and dwarfs and called her warband the "Sexy Nuggets," which included a human leader, an dwarven elite soldier, a dwarven orcish slayer, two human warriors, an elite human archer, and a human spellcaster. My force was led by an orc warrior and included six goblins, a lesser eye beast (dropped assassination), and two lesser trolls (dropped tough) and I called them the "Mullet Mashers." We played the Treasure Hunt scenario over a Paizo Flip Mat covered by a piece of thin plexiglass with some terrain features added on (the building is a Dave Graffam paper model (very cool!). Here's a few pics of the action!

The start of the battle. Admittedly, the map is a tad small but I really liked it. :)

My fiancee's leader grabs the treasure on the first attempt! Check out the Dave Graffam building!

The forces engage each other in the field. Some of my goblins were pounded into dust, as planned.

But my eye beast transfixed her leader and then in the subsequent turn shot her to death!

                                                           BATTLE REPORT
  The game was a lot of fun for both of us! It was a little rough going since we were both learning the rules for the first time but all in all, was pretty simple to learn. On the first turn the Sexy Nuggets discovered the treasure and I thought she was going to win it quickly. I advanced my goblins to try and intercept her before she could leave. After she picked up the treasure though, she rolled three 1's the next activation and that's when the tide of war turned.

 I was able to capitalize by moving my eye beast into position and transfixing her on the spot. After that, she tried to wake her leader up but only rolled one success. Subsequently, the eye beast shot her in the face and it caused a few of her models to run. After that she managed to score a gruesome kill on one of my goblins causing a break in my forces and leaving me with almost half my models gone. I managed to nab the treasure with my eye beast but had to turn play over to her after a bad roll trying to move my trolls into position. Then all hell broke loose when she killed one more goblin reducing my force to 50% routing several of my men and nearly the eye beast! Thankfully, he only failed one morale dice and was able to hold it together. After that, it was smooth sailing and I coasted to victory with my eye beast holding the prize.

FINAL SCORE: The Mullet Mashers 11, The Sexy Nuggets 4

Let's make it Orky!

 Here we have a Reaper Bones Orc Warrior with a two-handed sword. I decided to forgo the traditional green orc skin (at least, traditional to me as I played Orcs and Goblins as a Warhammer player in my younger years). Pretty happy with how he came out overall. Not so sure about the red but it definitely makes it pop.

 I finished him just in time to lead my evil force in a game of Song of Blades and Heroes by Ganesha Games against my fiancee and her force of good, a mix of humans and dwarfs that I painted up. She was particularly excited to use some of the models I painted for her. Hopefully I'll have a battle report to come!

Troll Mania, OH YEAAAAAH!

 So, I've been at it again. Painted up a couple of fine Reaper Bones Trolls. These guys are the more generic types but I think they're my favorite. They're like an open canvas and I decided to get a little wild! I'm a big anime fan and there's one in particular that inspired me on these guys and that was The Slayers. A top notch old school anime with lots of color, especially the monsters. Hence I painted these guys up like the trolls from The Slayers, lots of different wild colors. The results:

"Watermelon Troll" with Hulk Hogan hair style...

He should seriously get those checked out!

"Seahawks Troll" Go Hawks!

 
  These guys were a TON of fun to paint and super fast. I didn't go hog wild on details and such since they're just tabletop quality minis but hey, I like 'em a lot and I think my vision of them was executed well. :) Happy weekend, folks!

Three Eye Beasts, one post.

Here we have three "Eye Beasts" by Reaper. They're Bones, in case you were wondering. These were a lot of fun to paint. I've been painting a lot of monsters lately and they let my creativity go wild and I use a lot of colors I wouldn't normally use, such as the Pink Eye Beast...Hah. Anyhow, the brownish one was inspired by Ultima Online's Gazer monster. Many a death at the hands of those guys in the old days of UO!

In all, they probably took me a little over two hours to paint, so they painted up quick. Again, really enjoyable miniatures all around!

Been working hard on various Reaper Bones minis and a few extras! I'm trying to create a large pool of various monsters and adventurers for various games with Reaper Bones minis. Mostly I've just been doing a two color technique but a few three layer areas thrown in for added effect. Mostly, they're just table-top quality so I won't have to worry about damaging something that took me hours and hours to paint. :)

Reaper Bones Chaos Warriors! Sadly, I'll be tearing off their bases...

Reaper Bones Fire Giant. I named him Bernard

Reaper Bones Goblins

Reaper Bones Goblins

Reaper Belle, Succubus

An old Ral Partha Thief