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Paint What You Got challenge 2026

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after several weeks of freezing weather, crap work schedules and finally feeling a little bit better, i got what i could get done for the PWYG challenge. i do feel like i should have done more but real life took over. some time i will eventually get my last two MotU factions painted, but don't hold your breathe on it. towards the end of February i found a new game called Deth Wizards, which totally changed my decision on what to paint because i bought two boxes of Frostgrave miniatures. one box of soldiers and one of culstists. i did do a bit of kitbashing between the plastic sets. the female wizard on the left i want to use as a new necromancer for a new horde for Deth Wizards. she is from the Wildspire Miniature line. i clipped the top of her staff and added a scythe blade from a classic warhammer skeleton plastic sprue. the fellow on the right is an old metal figure that i am not sure about the manufacturer. some thieves and rogues from the Frostgrave cultist box set. a few rang...
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damn this cold weather

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ever since this brittle arctic air swept over the east coast here in the United States i have lost all motivation to do any painting or anything. only played a handful of Dungeons and Dragons with the group and managed to get a handful of MotU figures ready to be painted, but being so cold i haven't even thought of picking up a paintbrush. and work isn't helping with the upcoming schedule changes, i feel like i won't get anything completed for the Paint What You Got challenge. to get me through this winter hell i did manage to come across a new game called Deth Wizards from Snarling Badger Studios. and i can't get enough of this game being a well written solo or 1v1 game. even though i said i was gonna paint my MotU figures for the PWYG challenge, i did manage to get a hold of some plastic sprues of Frostgrave soldiers and cultists to make the npc characters for Deth Wizards and hopefully if the weather cooperates i'll get them painted quickly and in time for the ch...
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lrn2play: Deth Wizards - story mode

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last weekend or so i bought Deth Wizards, a pretty cool game that after watching some introduction and game-play videos on it, i was surprised how easy i was able to pick up on it. i really love how there isn't much to it based on the fact it is an agnostic miniature game. so i basically had most of what i needed to play. i might have to get some actual buildings but i do have the "buildings" that i can use for now from the Tenfold Dungeon "The Town" box set. so a day or so later i made a quick necromancer character and an undead warband. i used one of my D&D characters for this game and it's just funny how in D&D he is actually a wizard of the college of necromancy. i picked an easy legacy of necromancy to use at first. i went with the ability to choose undead that are hulks and are a little bit of a tank.   after writing down all the information i need to play a story mode campaign, i played an introduction game for myself to get the basics down wh...
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more fantasy miniatures

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about a week or so ago i finished up several fantasy miniatures before i begin my Paint What You Got challenge with my MotU Evil Horde and Great Rebellion figures. hopefully with weather permitting next month i can get all of them if not the majority of them done before Feb. 26th deadline. continuing painting up more miniatures from the Wildspire plastic miniature set i bought off of Amazon. i picked out some of the more interesting and well noticeable figures i could use in my D&D games and also other fantasy based table-top games i have. female dwarf cleric female human druid and a monk who is blind. i didn't realize until i painted him that he had a blindfold on his face. i thought that was kinda cool and surprising. a male elf bard. female dragonborn spellcaster and a female tiefling rogue.
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lrn2play: Deth Wizards

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i watched a video on Youtube maybe over a year ago and it was about playing as a necromancer and controlling a band of the undead. and i thought that was kind of interesting but i never acted on it or what-not. until like a few days ago i was on Wargames Vault.com and remembered the necromancer game and went to re-watch a few more videos to see if it would be something i would like to get into. i bought the pdf and accidentally the pdf file of game cards, but i'll make use of them. took a day or two and read over the basic rules and created a band of undead minions. once i got my warband created, i went back to YouTube and watched some more game play videos to get a good grasp on the rules, which is how i learn better than reading a book cover to cover. i watched quite a bit of videos from the channel The Tabletop Engineer Plays and he goes through a nice campaign of his own for solo play, which i basically got this game for. the main thing about this game i truly like is that i ge...
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operation MotU: miscellaneous characters VI

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awhile back i got a few 3D prints made of some characters for my MotU collection. unfortunately the shop i got my first sets of prints from, ModestMiniStudio must have gone under or just pulled out because they are not on Etsy anymore. which i was kind of sad, they had great figures. i went on Etsy and found a nice shop called NaHminiatures. click here to visit. i really like how these prints i am finding on Etsy are scaling nicely with the CMON miniatures i have been acquiring for some time.   this time around i got Sk-Klone and Dragstor made. Sy-Klone. i wasn't a fan of him having his shield on top of his wrist like that but what can you do? i was happy that this print had the red fan decor on his back. i've seen a few Sy-Klones with and without it and in my opinion it looks cool with it. Dragstor. when i got this character printed the Etsy shop also had another pose to offer and i could not pass it up because it would be nice to look on the table-top. i just wish he had a be...
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the Whateleys: perilous (western) tales

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after getting away from the giant frog monster, Puckett and company continued cautiously towards the Whateley's homestead. William Loomis told the others the stories he has heard about the Whateley family, and most of it was not good to hear. stories ranging from the many "miscarriages" the poor daughter had to a deformed son that was eventually born and is rarely seen during the day. other stories were told about the countless dead cattle littered across their pasture and how most of the help around the farm is "unfortunate." the episode is the Whateley's. (this scenario is from the rulebook.) the objectives are: Kill the Master, Get Evidence, and Tell Us What You Know. the perils in the game are: Creeping Horror, Putrid Stench, and the Horde. which all were randomly generated. i tried to arrange the terrain to make it seem like the party was approaching the farm house closer than the last game. starting the game with the threat level at a four i rethought ...
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