And the Halfling makes five...

The final member of the Otherworld Miniatures D&D adventuring party, and a late starter, Lindal Tealeaf.  Although Lindal joined the party quite far into the campaign, he soon made up for lost time. He had the uncanny knack of being able to produce critical hits with his short bow which translated in game terms into slotting various goons by shooting arrows into one or other of their eyes.

Frank the tank.

Frank was Dwarven cleric who signally failed to do very much healing at all. What Frank really preferred to do was hit things incredibly hard with his hammer, usually with spectacularly gruesome results.  He gained a goblin sidekick he rescued from Axe’s attempted torture, whom he named Nemo, and a goat for which he commissioned a saddle (he never did get to ride it).

Dobby the ranger don’t make no resolutions...

Well.  That was 2017.  Where did it go?  Bugger.

Despite starting the year with the intention of painting, I spent the first two thirds of it prepping and building models.  I built 186 models for D&D from various ranges and primed nearly 600 for a multitude of games, most of them in one glorious five day stretch in August.  To be fair, the first half of the year was largely overtaken by a house move - preparing the old house for sale and then all the rigmarole of sorting out the new house (which still isn’t completely sorted).

In the end, I managed to paint 158 miniatures of all sizes so I’m fairly happy with that.  None of which have appeared on the blog yet.  As I said - bugger.  My intention when starting the blog was to regularly update it with my painting progress and for it to also act as a record of all my previous painting.  I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because I’m all too aware that in my case the mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. Having said that, I do want to post more regularly.  I think a lot of the posts may just be a unit or model that I’ve painted in the past, but not recorded in the virtual world, and will therefore be presented without much comment.

Ed the elf.

Although I'm a huge Star Wars fan and have bought into Armada, X-Wing, Imperial Assault, and West End Game's rpg, I've come to the realisation that I'm never going to play Star Wars Legion. Is it that it's a different scale than Imperial Assault thus requiring buying duplicates of models already owned? No. Is it due to the real and present danger that every time I mooch about lookin' fer fings, I risk being being crushed under models that I have little chance of ever painting? Nope. It's solely down to the inescapable truth that I hate, haaate, painting *#@!ing stormtroopers.

I came to this realisation two weekends ago when, after spending 6 hours painstakingly layering white on two and a half storm troopers, and being somewhat miffed with how utterly shite they looked, I promptly masked off the blasters and hit them with white spray primer from above. The result looked far better than what I'd achieved by careful application of paint. Now, don't get me wrong, they're not award winning models, but from two feet away they're more than acceptable. I haven't managed to photograph them yet so I'll post another Otherworld adventurer.

This is Ed the elf. His thirst for blood almost always superceded spellcasting.  When he did cast, it was most often Shocking Grasp, which would then invariably critically fail to hit with the hilarious side effect of electrocuting one of his comrades. Usually on the helmet. No, not that one. 

After inadvertently reaching into the wrong holster, Ed menaced the Goblin King with his latest purchase from Ann Summers.

Let me axe you a question...

Following some discussion on Matthew Sullivan's excellent blog, Oldenhammer in Toronto, I feel compelled to introduce you to Axe, aka Moghul Khan.  Earlier this year I ran The Lost Mines of Phandelver for a group of first-time gamers using the pre-generated characters from the adventure.  Formerly known as Moghul Khan, and then latterly, simply known as 'Axe'.  He had a strikingly low hit rate, but when he connected he would rend things asunder in a welter of blood and gore.

An Otherworld Miniatures fighter (v2 I believe) - I have another to paint up purely for my own use although for mine I am toying with the idea of swapping the axe for a sword.

High Plains Drifter...

Since the mid-nineties, I've been almost solely focused on the miniatures of GW, but this changed about five years ago, for a variety of reasons, none of which are particularly new or original.  Ultimately, this led to my purchase of nearly the whole Black Scorpion Tombstone range, largely due to me having grown up watching westerns. Alongside the models, I picked up Legends of the Old West, Gutshot and Dead Man's Hand.  I've yet to play a game of any of them or paint more than one model, but I do have another 11 primed and ready, and some of the lovely 4Ground buildings in storage.

It may be a while before you see any more Old West models on my blog, but here's a small preview:

Money, money, money...

Just a quick post to log the final piece of the BDD Dungeon Adventurers set from Citadel.  This is the only piece that I kept from my original set, and is what helped prompt me to collect the set again.  Every dungeon needs loot.