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i've been continuing cranking out miscellaneous miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons and even particularly Perilous Tales. finding miniatures in boxes and containers i forgot i even had, if i can throw some paint on it i quickly did, just to get them done and table ready. i guess it's wishful thinking of slimming down my plastic pile-a-shame. first off i found a small box of plastic creatures from Mantic Games i bought over a year ago and only painted certain creatures from it, so i took the little swarms of snakes and did them a quick green and some shade. and along with those i also found the last of my small toy snakes i remember from a plastic toy set from Wal-Mart. i painted two of these snakes before but this time around i did them in the same green to make it look like a happy snake family. for some time now i had the Mansion of Madness second edition board game from Fantasy Flight Games, just collecting dust and Rita and i haven't played it for some time now. so i to...

while i was working on the bearded devil miniature, i was also painting miniatures in batches. i guess i was doing this to keep my sanity in check and also from feeling overwhelmed. i recently got several miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons and some for Perilous Tales. and what is nice about some of these figures i got specifically for Perilous Tales, i can use them in D&D also. so that is a win-win. here of late i've been having this ambitious idea of creating a character for each class in Dungeons and Dragons. not including the npc's i have created for story-lines, i mean actual leveled characters. several weeks back i got a Wizkids Frameworks orc barbarian. when i went to assemble him i decided to arm him with a great sword. still haven't picked a sub-class for him, i might go with something that fits the racial traits of being an orc. originally i was going to add him to the Red Fangs orc tribe i created back in 2024. ( click here  to see the post of the Red Fangs. ...

since my last vacation i got some painting done and mainly the odds and ends of whatever i had laying around. most of this is for an upcoming game of Perilous Tales. several headstones i painted up for mainly for Perilous Tales but can be used for almost anything. not sure where i got these but i think i got them from the last gaming convention. a few giant scorpions from Mantic Games some wolves from Next Level Miniatures. my little demonic black goat. not sure if i am pleased with how he came out. i wanted him to be black but not just the entire figure black, i tried to do shading on it but it just came out like one shade. when i went to photograph it the blue spots on it are from the television shining on to it. some werewolves. one on the left is from Wizkids and the other one is Mantic Games. not to thrilled about these i might just go and buy a plastic sprue of werewolves from Wargames Atlantic. a duodrone, prepainted from Wizkids, gave it a painted base.

i've been painting miniatures for the past few weeks but with work and weather, i haven't gotten around to posting anything. i did however buy a few new minis for my fantasy collection and also finally getting around to painting some plastic sprues that i got a while back. and of course continuing painting the Masters of the Universe figures. the recent Next Level Miniatures i got were a metal golem and i got another vampire. i originally got the golem to be a companion for an existing D&D character but decided against it.  iron golem. gave it a golden color instead of the usual silver metal feel. a nosferatu vampire. a few weeks ago i came across a plastic box set of miniatures from Wildspire Miniatures on Amazon was curious about what they were like in person. unfortunately there were a few from one set i bought i was interested in. in a future post i'll show more miniatures from the other box sets i got. mysterious female spellcaster. love how the hat comes down to c...

ever since the new year i have been tracking the amount of figures i have painted, and i'm kinda curious what the number will look like come the end of this year. i've been wanting to get a few games in but haven't had the time unfortunately. recently i got some hellhounds from Next Level Miniatures, these were good for the price and some cleaning up had to be done but overall nice figures. there was a large three-headed hellhound i had to get. i had to use some green stuff to fix some miscasting around the heads of the large hound. hopefully soon i can unleash these onto my D&D group. some evil sorcerers summoning a great hound of hell. finally got around painting some aliens from CMON's Zombicide: Invader boardgame. sadly i didn't get into the game as i thought i would, but i held on to the miniatures from it to use in other tabletop games. i have many more sitting around in a box which i might paint different colors as time goes on or if i need certain aliens...

lately i have been gearing up some more figures for either a wild west game or D&D. painting ones i already have, buying new ones for future games/ideas, or coming across some that i totally forgot i had. all miniatures are from Wizkids unless noted in their captions. gargoyles from Next Level Miniatures. black base and gray/white dry brush. i wanted to keep the whole stone-skin look but didn't want to over do it. a halfling ranger. i have to admit the miniatures from the Critical Role unpainted miniatures line from Wizkids seem to be smaller and less detailed. i've been looking for a halfling ranger for some time and this little fellow was not a joy to paint at all.  found a half-orc fighter figure in a small box the other day. i was curious where she came from because i don't remember buying any half-orcs for sometime but anyways i painted her and added her to my red cloaked cult i created. i wanted to create an elf rogue that reminds me of my night elf rogue from Wor...

to be honest i have not done much since last month. kind of took a gaming break overall, from painting, gaming and even touching a figure. after the last batch of MotU figures and trying to get another unit done for Silver Bayonet done, i was losing my enthusiasm for it. so i'm doing little things here and there. getting some figures' bases redone or small D&D characters done for adventures, but large projects are starting to overwhelm me. i guess my age is creeping up on me faster than i thought.  back in may of last year i purchased several plastic sprues of Frostgrave cultists and assembled them but didn't do anything with them for a while. i ended up painting them a few weeks ago for some encounters for our D&D group. i separated the characters who are armed with a certain style of blades from the others and gave them small shields. i also glued heads with exposed faces or masks on these particular figures compared to the rest i made. some armed with crossbows a...