Reaper Miniatures - Eldritch Demon - 77113

 

This model expanded my Sharpie experiment - just like Sir Conlan, I decided to use the Sharpie Creative Markers with the paint brush tip. It's an interesting pack / marketing decision made by the Sharpie folks. The nub tips actually have the same 12 and then another 12 more colors in what I think they call earthen colors. However the paint brush tip has only the primary colors with the exception of green.  Picking up the pack of Sharpie's gets you 12 colors to play with...

1. Blue
2. Purple
3. Pink
4. Red
5. Orange
6. Yellow
7. Black
8. Grey
9. White

and then I left the greens for the end - instead of primary green you get...

10. Blue-Green
11. Cool Green
12. Yellow Green

A minor pain from my perspective is that Sharpie doesn't actually name the colors - however, they do have a nice cap system with the color but if they ever do expand the line, it would be nice to have color names.

This model had been sitting on the bench for quite awhile - I originally had it painted a goblin green body with medium brown wings - the paint was airbrushed on with extra paint remaining in the pot from other painting projects. It wasn't really doing much for me and this Sharpie set has a bunch of greens so I figured this was the perfect experiment.

The three greens were used as follows... blue-green on the body and the wing structures - cool-green on the wing membranes - yellow-green to pick out the details around the body and the belly. Mentioned previously but it's easy to see, the paint is very opaque which was great to cover the airbrushed paint. However, sometimes it would be nice if just a bit of bleed/transparency was there to blend - the AK's are similarly very opaque.

A bit of Google Gemini magic and we have a Eldritch Demon for a VTT session...

What do we do with what is essentially the aspect of an elder god making its way to the material plane through space and time (tampered just a bit because I do have Reaper's C'Thulhu which is twice the size - a true LV20 beast). How about a large bit of demon, some dragon, a bit of brain eater, and finally some gibbering mouther (elevated) for anyone near the beast.

Finally we do get to deduct another model from the Kickstarter Bones pile...

Kickstarter paint total 230 + 1 Eldritch Demon = 231

Reaper Miniatures - Sir Conlan - 77200

 

I used this Reaper Bones model for a bit of an experiment - it had been sitting on my desk with a coat of light blue paint over it from some leftover paint from airbrushing the ocean hexes. It's also a Bobby Jackson sculpt which means it has some nice flow to it as all of his sculpts are awesome and would work well for this experiment.

I wanted to use only the Sharpie markers on this as well as some acrylic metallic markers I found on Amazon (Pagather 24 Metallic Acrylic Markers). I've been playing around quite a bit with the AK Interactive markers but they do tend to be a bit messy and I wanted to give the Sharpies more of a go. However, the Sharpies are very limited in color - so now I have 24 metallic colors (too many to be honest). 

This was a lot of fun and super easy. The blue cloak, the grey shield, the black straps were all Sharpie. The gold armor and the silver sword were the Pagather metallics. Like wow, that was simple. I did need to go to the AK's for the dark skin on the face. May need to see if the Pagather's have more colors to supplement the Sharpies. 

The Pagather acrylic markers were interesting - they're dual tipped with the brush tip on one side and what they called fine tip on the other which was more of a ball tip like the Sharpie bullet tip version. And like the Sharpie bullet tip version there wasn't a shaker ball and no instructions to shake. However, the brush tip acted and looked exactly like the Sharpie brush tips and the paint flowed quite well from the tips. I was accurate enough with the tip to get the gold chain going down and carefully follow the lines of the sword through the cloak.

One more test... I don't normally spray Bones models because they're so soft that the paint doesn't chip like a metal model would. However, I wanted to give it a go and see if there was any adverse effects on the model like what happened with the Vallejo Xpress Color paint on the Wizkids Raging Troll.

I gave it a pretty solid coat of Testor Dullcote and there was no reactivation or disintegration of the paint. Looks the same...

Time to bring the model into Google's Gemini and convert it to artwork for your VTT sessions using AI...

Now for some ShadowDark goodness for Sir Conlan. As he's designated as a Paladin which isn't in the core rulebook, let's take from the Monsters a combination of the Knight and the Acolyte - then give him a couple bumps in level...

Finally, this does count against my giant kickstarter pile (it is going down). 

Kickstarter paint total 229 + 1 Sir Conlan = 230

NextLevel Miniatures - Gold Dragon

 

This is a huge mini from NextLevel Miniatures on a 3" base and sits at 4" tall from tail to horns with 4" wings - actually quite a beautiful miniature - well sculpted with good proportions.

I airbrushed this with Vallejo Air Gold. I really like the outcome - it shoots extremely well through the airbrush.

Then it was back over to the AK Interactive Playmarkers and I used Desert Ochre on the belly and inner wings. Finished off with Black on eyes, nostrils, and claws.

Brought the first photo into Google Gemini and asked it to convert it to artwork for your VTT...

No ShadowDark card as essentially the Gold Dragon is the equivalent of a Lawful Red Dragon - use those stats on page 210 of the core rulebook.