WizKids Displacer Beast - WZK72576

Here kitty kitty... oh my goodness... what an awesome model - I just love this model and so much fun to paint.  These Wizkids unpainted miniatures are just awesome.

Painting instructions for Displacer Beast (used my Vallejo Game Color)...

Step 1: No need to primer - already done
Step 2: Use Midnight Blue on entire model
Step 3: Use Scrofulous Brown on pads
Step 4: Use Bonewhite on pads
Step 5: Use Bonewhite on teeth
Step 6: Use Squid Pink on inner ear
Step 7: Use watered down Midnight Blue and wash over the inner ear
Step 8: Use Sun Yellow on eyes

Reaper Miniatures Bat Demon - 77261

With the recent release of Descent into Avernus there are a lot of great pre-painted miniatures that have come out recently in the demon line.  These provide great examples of minimalistic paint jobs that get the most across in the least amount of time.  I used the Red Abishai as my inspiration model when I painted this one.

Painting instructions for Bat Demon (used my Vallejo Game Color)...

Step 1:  I'm using Stynylrez primer on the bones models - just slop it on and cover everything - it works great!
Step 2: Use Gory Red over the entire model
Step 3: Use Parasite Brown on back fur
Step 4: Drybrush Scrofulous Brown on back fur
Step 5: Use Hot Orange on wings (as a wet drybrush)
Step 6: Use Orange Fire on wings (as a wet drybrush) as highlights
Step 7: Use Sun Yellow on wings (as a wet drybrush) as final highlights
Step 8: Use Bloody Red as skin highlights
Step 9: Wash skin with watered down Gory Red
Step 10: Use Black on claws and nose
Step 11: Use Midnight Blue on claws and nose as highlight
Step 12: Use Bonewhite on horns
Step 13: Use Dead White on horns as highlight
Step 14: Use Black on base and rock
Step 15: Drybrush Cold Grey on rock
Step 16: Drybrush Stonewall Grey on rock
Step 17: Drybrush Dead White on rock

Kickstarter paint total: 132 + 1 Bat Demon = 133

Reaper Miniatures Turanil, Male Elf Paladin - 77044

I need an elf paladin as an npc for a recent game - so I threw some paint on this guy and placed him on the table - perfect.  Not to complain too much - but I couldn't really tell what all the bit were on the front of the model around the waste.  There's so much detail that gets lost in these bones - I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the new black bones and see if those have better detail.  I see there's a new Kickstarter coming out and I'll have to be part of that.

Kickstarter paint total: 131 + 1 Elf Paladin = 132

Reaper Miniatures Skeletal Breakers - 3758

Some perfect minis for a Friday the 13th... Skels and these are some old metal miniatures I had lying around.  I love these guys - so well sculpted with tattered bits of armor, leather, and cloth.  My favorite part is the old leather helmet - I really like the character put into these guys.  Really good sculpts and a kick butt sword.

I used the same painting steps on these guys as I did Golgath.  He's my goto model for when I want to spend more time than a simple drybrush and a wash on skeletons.

WizKids Mind Flayers - WZK72566

These guys were more fun to paint than a barrel of monkeys.  Nothing fancy here, a quick bit of purple, pink, and a blue-green.  Now they're ready for the gaming table to feast on some brains.

Reaper Miniatures Townsfolk: Oswald the Overladen - 77141

This miniature has become one of my favorites and has been sitting on my desk for awhile - I have a few figures that I keep around and throw paint at it as an overflow and this is one (another is packrat which is close to being complete).  There is purposely no rhyme nor reason to the paint scheme other than when I had an extra bit of paint and an object needing painting I'd throw some paint at it.  The last object to get painted was the wooden barrel on top.

One henchman looking for party of adventurers - will work for food, a few gold coins, and health benefits in the way of magical healing.

Favorite object being carried --- the chicken.

Kickstarter paint total: 130 + 1 Townsfolk: Oswald the Overladen = 131

Reaper Miniatures Townsfolk: Wench - 77085

Another miniature that started life during Reapercon 2017.  This class was on how to make realistic fluids such as in a jar or a bottle.  The focus was on the six beer mugs being held by this medieval bar wench.  We looked at various pictures of beer and what you see (a) there is a dark line at the top of the beer and the foam, (b) the light actually reflects more clearly at the bottom of the glass meaning that the color goes from dark to light from top to bottom, and (c) that a nice vertical line gives that reflective look of glass.  Example....

That was a great class and this mini has sat around long enough and would occasionally get some paint splattering from a drybrush or an accidental swipe of a brush - so I thought it was time to give it a quick paintjob over this labor day weekend.  Nothing fancy - just enough to get it put up on the completed shelf.  Maybe I can get a bar fight going in one of my D&D campaigns - damage from a flying beer glass?

Kickstarter paint total: 129 + 1 Townsfolk: Wench = 130

Reaper Miniatures Sir Conlan - 77200

This miniature started off life as a practice figure at the Reapercon 2017 class on a technique whereby you load the brush up with a dark, medium, and highlight at the same time - I didn't really manage to get the technique down and over time just used a more traditional layering technique.  This then sat on my desk for a long time and I'd do bits and pieces of it when the right color hit.  I finally finished it off tonight by painting the shield with some leftover red from my Giant Octopus project.

Kickstarter paint total: 128 + 1 Sir Conlan = 129

WizKids Giant Octopus - WZK73728

Was at my local gaming store on Saturday playing a session of D&D and picked up a newly released Giant Octopus from the Wizkids Deep Cuts line of unpainted and primed miniatures.  I'm running a Ghostmarsh campaign on Thursday nights and this will be perfect for an up and coming session.  Eager to rip this one out of the box I grabbed the paints and had at it.  I love that this came with a clear base - great for turning over and seeing all the detail work.

Painting instructions for Giant Octopus (used my Vallejo Game Color)...

Step 1: No need to primer - already done
Step 2: Use Scarlett Red on entire model
Step 3: Use Bloody Red on the appendages
Step 4: Use Orange Fire on the lower half of appendages
Step 5: Use a wash of Hexed Lichen on entire model
Step 6: Use Warlord Purple on bottom of appendages
Step 7: Use Squid Pink on the suction cups

Reaper Miniatures Barrow Warden 3 - 77348

Nothing fancy here.  Just a quick paint in black, drybrush in gunmetal, add a bit of bone white for the skeleton and we're ready to throw on the table as a baddy for the evening's D&D game.

Kickstarter paint total: 127 + 1 Barrow Warden = 128