A Kind of Dog and Pony Show
What kind of dog and pony show? The kind without dogs. These two packhorses are from 15mm.co.uk. They come one each in their adventurer’s packs. As you can tell, I’ve got two adventurer’s packs to paint. The thief is from that same pack. Here is a comparison shot of...
Hero Time!
In addition to the previously shown mercenaries, players wanting a run through Castle Meatgrinder will have plenty of elves, dwarves, and human heroes of both sexes to choose from. The painting of these will take a little longer, as I’ve been painting in groups of two to four at...
Quick Hit – Last Familiar
The Reaper Bones familiar pack comes with this fun little quetzlcoatl. He should make a nice little prankster-elf style NPC for the players to interact with. Probably a wandering monster in the halls. ...
A Little Something From The Closet
The undead inhabitants of Castle Meatgrinder consist mainly of skeletons from 15mm.co.uk. These are really sharp figures that their website just doesn’t do justice. You’ll want to check out the big versions of these pictures, these smaller icons lose a lot of their character. Just zombies and...
Dem Bones
These three chubby and whimsical demons are from Bones’ Hordeling Spure (#77335), thank you for the sculpts, B. Ridolfi. The shading on these guys really came out great; I think I’m getting the hang of washes at this scale. As you can see, these three brothers are actually...
Familiar Figures
As promised Saturday, we’re back to dem Bones, this time with a pack called Familiars 2 (#77196), or part of it. This pack includes six small figures suitable for use as familiars for you over-sized miniatures, but that make for a wonderfully odd little collection of characters in 15mm. ...
Cult of the Dungeongod
Castle Meatgrinder is an extension of a Lovecraftian chaos-demon-god, oozing into the mundane world. It tempts the unwary with promises of riches and power, but hungers for only the bravest and fittest, and so guards its lucre by extruding guardians both foul and vicious. As heroes plumb its depths,...
Chaos Panthers and Basing Issues
Welcome to an inadvertent series called Miniature Monday. It wasn’t intentional, but the summer lull in scheduling means that some painting gets done over the weekend at Chez Abox. This week’s offering is Splintered Light’s Chaos Panthers, done in a traditional black so dark it has blue highlights. ...
It’s Okay, I’m With the Warband
Took almost half of the year of fantasy to get around to painting up some heroes, but they look great. You’ll want to click on the pictures to get the full effect. This is a 10 man pack from Ral Partha Europe’s BlightHaven line, specifically BH011: Human Mercenary Warband....
Big Nasty Bugs
Giant scorpions are some of my favorite wandering monsters. Big, armored, and poisonous, even mid-level adventurers have to consider tangling with them. Wandering around, they don’t even have any treasure. (Unless a clever player thinks to carve out its poison sac for sale to an alchemist.) I’ve been trying to...