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Tiefling Warlock & Imp

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I managed to finish another two miniatures for our Dungeons & Dragons party, which are also my last entries for Dave's "Paint What You Got" challenge : The Tiefling warlock Skormus , accompanied by his pet imp. For the warlock I used another miniature from OrcQuest Warpath, namely the human wizard Lothar the Enchanter . I wasn't able to find out who did the sculpt, but the artwork was done by Daniel Zrom. Of course Tieflings need horns, so I drilled two small holes in his head and added horns made of paper clips and greenstuff. Painting-wise I wanted to make it clear that he's an evil character, who is able to summon demons, so I opted for red and black as the main colours and added a (poorly drawn) pentagram to his book. Since an imp is able to transform into either a raven, a rat or a spider - and most of the time in our adventures it was a rat - I decided it would be a great opportunity to use one of my old Warhammer Quest/Fantasy Swarms rats to represent

The Ogres are coming to get ya!

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I managed to finish two more Ogres/Ogors of the Red Maw Tribe, a Leadbelcher and an Irongut. I did the basecoats almost exactly one year ago, since I wanted to submit them to the last edition of Dave's "Paint What You Got" challenge, but didn't manage to finish them - so I'll submit them to this year's challenge instead. Both Ogres are slightly converted. The helmet and weapon of the Irongut are from the Mournfang Riders kit, which offers a nice collection of two-handed weapons and armour. I added a wheel to the Leadbelcher's cannon to give the impression that the Ogre just picked up a cannon from the battlefield and uses it against its former owners. I stole this idea from legendary converter Wudugast , be sure to check out his original conversion . I used a chariot wheel from Mini Monsters - seems like they are now producing cannon wheels as well so I might make another similar Leadbelcher in the future. I had a lot of fun painting the bronze cannon, a

A Lone Wolf

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Some of our Dungeons & Dragons characters own pets that fight alongside our party, so I decided to prepare some miniatures of them as well. Today I present to you the pet wolf of our Wood Elf Ranger that I finished last month. Of course it's another entry for Dave's "Paint What You Got" challenge 2024 . The base of the model is a Chaos Warhound, while the head and tail are from a Fenrisian Wolf. I took this idea from Sebastian Stuart's fantastic guide to kitbashing Goblin Wolf Riders . I always loved his Goblins of the Bloody Shield Tribe and plan on making some of my own in the near future, so this wolf was kind of a test model. I went with an upright pose, since I wanted to put the wolf on a square 25mm base like the other miniatures. As the Chaos Warhounds are a bit smaller than regular Warhammer wolves, this worked like a charm. I went for a rather simple paint job, using mostly drybrushing and Contrast paints - I'm quite happy with the result

OrcQuest Warpath: Elf Archer

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My first entry for Dave Stone's "Paint What You Got" challenge 2024 is an Elf Archer from OrcQuest Warpath. Like last month's Heckarr & Jeckarr , this miniature was sculpted by Gael Goumon . The miniature was quite fun to paint, however it had some nasty mold lines that were difficult to remove without damaging the head. The model is going to get used in our D&D games as well to represent another member of our party, the Wood Elf Ranger Setarcos . Here's a group shot of the currently painted party members - two more to go.

Kitbashed Dragonborn Paladin

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Some months ago, I decided to paint some miniatures for our Dungeons & Dragons group. Up until now, we used simple tokens for the heroes and enemies, so I thought it would be nice to have some painted models instead. Also, I was sure that my friends would be happy to get miniatures repesenting their characters. In the last blog post, I already presented my character, the Half-Orc Barbarian Zango . Next up is my mate's Dragonborn Paladin Levioth . Since I do not own any Dragonborn miniatures, but I own a large amount of different Warhammer kits, I decided to create a kitbash using a Stormcast Eternals Knight-Vexillor as the base. I replaced the banner with a Vindictor shield and the human head with a skink head from the Stegadon kit. The tail is also from a skink, while the wings are from an old Warhammer Quest bat. I based my conversion on the following drawing that my mate made of his character. Finally, here's the party at the current state - three heroes are still missin

Savage Orruk Big Boss

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I originally planned to paint this model for Orctober, but was only able to finish it last week. It's a Savage Orc/Orruk Big Boss and definitely one of my favourites of the Bonesplitterz range. I decided to put the miniature on a square base, since I'm planning to use it in both OrcQuest and DnD to represent my Half-Orc barbarian "Zango the Madman". The next post will be another member of our DnD party - a Dragonborn - which I also finished last week. In case you missed it: Dave is hosting the annual "Paint What You Got" challenge again which runs from today until the end of February. Since this (and the following) miniature were done before the challenge, I won't submit them as entries. I hope to finish my first entry at the beginning of the new year.

OrcQuest Warpath: Heckarr & Jeckarr - Dwarvember

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These two miniatures are my (late) entry for Keith's Dwarvember challenge. They are from the boardgame OrcQuest Warpath, which is basically HeroQuest, but you play as the bad ones. Technically Heckarr & Jeckarr are not dwarves - the game calls them gnomes, but if you ask me they very much look like dwarves. Their design seems to be somewhat inspired by GW Chaos Dwarfs - from the tusks to the large hats to the blunderbuss. I did a bit of research and found out that the concept art was created by Helge C. Balzer ( concept art of Jeckarr ), while the sculpting was done by Gael Goumon (sculpts of Heckarr & Jeckarr ).  I really like the models, but they lack detail in some places, especially if you compare the plastics to the aforementioned digital sculpts. I guess that has to be expected from boardgame plastic miniatures. Apart from that they were really fun to paint. I decided to embrace their Chaos Dwarf look, so I went with a caucasian flesh tone instead of green and used

Savage Ogre - Paint What We've All Got

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This month it's time for the "Paint What We've All Got" challenge, hosted by Roger . The aim of the challenge is for all participating bloggers to paint the same model - a savage ogre. The model was sculpted by Dave Stone specifically for this challenge and it's a truly amazing miniature. Funnily enough I've always wanted an ogre in prehistoric style to go alongside my Savage Orcs/Bonesplitterz, so I was very happy when the results of the poll came in - and later on when Dave showed what he sculpted. The model was a joy to paint and in the end I added some decals from the Bloodbowl Ogres kit as tattoos (symbol of the Great Maw on the belly and a fist on its back) to tie it in with my Ogor Mawtribes. As regular readers of this blog will know I'm not only a collector of  greenskins, but also ogres from different manufacturers and eras. This savage ogre fits in nicely with my existing collection, especially the more old-school ogres that I own. In the pictur