A Couple of Old School Minis recently Completed

I've actually been painting quite a bit these last few months since January, I just have not posted anything.  Now I suppose I should binge post mini pictures.

Below are a few of the minis I have completed recently.  The first up is a Gnoll Champion done sometime in May, part of Julie Guthrie's Grenadier Personalities collection. My daughter wanted him for gaming, but she wanted a Polar Bear Paladin, so I painted the mini in that style. I would say this was a fairly quick paint for me, less than 8 hours LOL. I'm getting older and so my eyes are getting bad!

Next up is one I completed in July, a Ral Partha AD&D Gnoll. I tried to use a Zenithal highlight technique on the mini during the priming stage.  This means I spray primed him black first, then I spray painted yellow at a 45 degree angle, then I sprayed him from straight above with a shot of white primer. I then tried to glaze on paint over the primer highlights.

The yellow spray paint was too globby, and I should have used a finer primer, but it worked OK.

He has a lot of metallic paint on him, and I find this makes the mini extra reflective for photos.  The camera kind of freaks out.

Another Reaper Bones Barrow Warden

This guy was done back in January and has been begging to be photographed.  He's another of Reaper's Barrow Wardens. I'm not sure what his pose is all about...is he stabbing gophers?

Now on both of my Bones Barrow Wardens, I straightened out the swords by dipping the minis in boiling water, adjusting the sculpt, and then dipping them in ice water.  This worked for a while, but then the original bent pose came back.  Hmmm.

This guy is well armored and would be a pain in the patooty to fight.

Reaper Bones Amiri, Female Barbarian

One of my daughters wanted this really nice miniature for her own.  She asked me last week if I could paint it for her, and I agreed on the condition that she give me the colors she wanted for the various parts. These Pathfinder miniatures are quite detailed and have a lot of parts...I can't even tell what some of them are. Here is Amiri:

This is not a Pro job like the amazing Derek Schubert, but it is good enough for me to like it.  It went fairly fast as I underpainted the whole mini in greyscale and then tried to glaze over it.  Glazing with metallic paint really works well as it helps avoid the clumping and bumpiness caused by the metallic flakes in the paint.

Reaper Bones Mimic

I'm back into painting after a long hiatus of house projects.  Here is a mimic miniature that has been sitting in my box of terrain pieces unpainted for at least a year.  The kids love this mini and always bring it out when we play with the Dungeon Tiles. I finally got motivated to paint this one and I'm glad I did...he looks really cool.

I tried to do some NMM metal for the frame of the chest.  It is a cleaner look, but it tends to look more like greyscale than metal.  The next chest I will paint will be with RMM methods.

I generously applied gloss finish to his teeth and gums to give him that hungry look.

Reaper Bones Barrow Warden

Happy New Year.

This fellow has been done for several weeks and is just making it onto the Internet.  He is a Barrow Warden from the Bones II Kickstarter.  As you can see, there is a lot of metal on this guy.  I spent a lot of time trying to weather the plate mail, but I just could not get it right. Still , he is good enough for the gaming table and will no doubt be used since skeletons are so popular in D&D!

His friend is basically done except for the base, so I will post him soon.

Final Reaper Bones Avatar of Sokar

It took a while, but I finally finished Sokar. I was a little burnt out of paiting all of the gold on the mini, and I guess my mind got bored.  That is a funny thing that happens with painting minis for some people.

He is good enough now.  I will keep him in the minis bin for use with games.

If Sokar ever comes out in an RPG session, I pity the party that will have to deal with him.  I'm sure he will clean the floor with them.

Back of Sokar

Another Ral Partha AD&D Goblin

I'm not exactly sure where I found this goblin, but my best guess is in the the bits bin at one of my local game stores.  I think I pulled him out along with several of his brothers after I recognized them as the AD&D Ral Partha goblins. The sculptor for these models (Bob Olley?) has done a brilliant job in my mind.

I've got 3 or 4 dozen of these guys unpainted, along with some that I painted back in the 90's.  I think they would make a great war band ...

Here is Mr. Goblin with another fellow from his tribe I painted earlier.