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This is an old Ral Partha dragon sculpted by Tom Meier. It's supposed to be the Great Fire Dragon, obviously I didn't know that when I painted him or I would have gone with red. I've had him for 20-30 years, so I figure it's high time that he got painted. Please let me know what you think. >Taking decent pictures of something this big is a little difficult. <

Hello everyone, here are pictures of a diorama I did. It features 30 Reaper Miniatures models. Here's the list of models; Drunken Wyrm Inn Dragonbane Forge Townhouse and Antique Attic Buildings interior Amidst the bustle and commotion of the day, In the heart of a quaint village, people say, Stands a collection of enchanting buildings, Each with its own charm, truly thrilling. The Merchant House, where the wealthy reside, Stone-built and luxurious, their status implied, A fair trader, a tolerant man, Helping those in need, when he can. The Antic Attic, a store of old, Filled with treasures and rugs untold, Its large stained glass window, A beacon of light in the village below. Next door, farmers sell their harvest, Vegetables fresh, a bounty of the earth, In this festive scene that's filled with glee, The Drunken Wyrm Inn its windows aglow. In the Inn, a warm and cozy space, Rest your worries and dine with grace, After a long journey or a battle fought, A place to stay and rest, as you ought. The Dragonbane Forge, where the hammer pounds, Imbuing weapons with such powerful sounds, Of the skillful blacksmith, townsfolk are proud, His armor plates and shields, a protective shroud. But the purpose of the day is not to trade, As a band of heroes has come back unscathed, Their wagon brimming, the head of a dragon and their loot, A warrior on horse, victory as his pursuit. Mercenaries, wizards, and knights so bold, With their spoils and stories, they're worth their weight in gold, They enter the town, a triumphant displayed, To celebrate their victory on the beast they’ve slayed. Peasants gather around, Men, women, and children, all spellbound, Merchants, beggars, and waitresses too, All there to welcome the saviors true. In this grand village diorama, the sun shines bright, As heroes are hailed with cheers and delight, And yet, behind the forge, a rust monster feasts, Unnoticed by those baffled by the slain beast.

Hello All, Here are photos of two monsters I completed this week. A 77371 Dark Heaven Bones "Basilisk" and a Wizkids D&D Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures "Owlbear" Thank you for looking.

Ready for some THAC0, descending AC, roll over and roll under adventuring! This is a big hurdle, only the 3 bigatures left and I will have completed my dungeon crawlers box!

Hello All, Here are photos of a RN Estudio 3D printed 32MM scale Dungeon Pin-ups "Midaya, The Wizard" I completed yesterday. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 44125 Bones Black "Winter Wolf" I completed a few weeks ago. It is larger than the metal version. The unpainted fighter miniature is from Wizkids D&D Nolzur's. I used it to show scale. Thank you for looking.

My wife, who has had spiders as pets, won't even look at this thing....

Hello All, Here are photos of a 30074 Bones USA "Young Mage" I completed recently. Thank you for looking.

Hey all! Here's a sneak peek at my 2023 Ordnance entry for ReaperCon's MSP contest. Cart and Merchant were sculpted by Vae Victis, plants were 3D printed from Epic Basing. All Reaper paints used. This was my first real foray into freehand work- which I tend to avoid because my hands are so shaky. Fingers crossed it pays off at the con.

Per the title…fan favorite from Bones 5.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 44170 Bones Black "Circe" female Sorceress I completed yesterday. Thank you for looking.

Hi all, I’ve finished a project I started a while back, making a Pathfinder mammoth rider. I decided to combine a pygmy mammoth and the amazingly cool Kjell Bloodbear. I also, perhaps foolishly, decided to paint up mounted and unmounted versions. 🙂 Thanks for viewing! Greenstuff is scary but fun 🙂

There are many like him but this one is mine. I wanted to balance the natural and mystical with this fellow, so he got some funky pink feathers and purple in the shadows.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 03931 Dark Heaven Legends "Alena Frostblade, Human Female Barbarian" I completed recently. Thank you for looking.

Spent less time on this than I thought but I am very happy with the outcome. C&C welcome.

Hello All, Here are photos of a Dark Heaven Legends 02702 "Hercules, Human Barbarian" I completed last week. All parts are pinned. Thank you for looking.

A couple of 3d prints that I just finished up. Unfortunately, last couple weeks have been rough where I just don't feel like painting much.

First, my apologies - I just cannot get a good picture these days! I would welcome tips but to be fair (#letterkenny) I'm not sure how much time I want to sink into photography what with my ten thousand other hobbies (mini painting chief among them, so...). This is my adventuring party, the Unicorn Chasers. We have been playing together for just over two years in this campaign running through all the adventures in "Tales from the Yawning Portal." We all play online because we're scattered across the country. That means, in case you're wondering, these minis are 100% unnecessary...but this group has come to mean so much to me during quarantine and COVID and everything else that I've probably become a little obsessed. Regardless, I took the best pictures I could and the display diorama I built for them. 99% reaper paints, but so many different colors I have no idea what's what. I can tell you there are a variety of flesh triads, most if not all weapons are the "natural steel triad" and any golds are the gold toned metal triad. Minis are: 02621 Laurana, Sorceress (Willow, Human Sorceress) 02667 Halfling Wizard (Bilzivur, the Gnome) 03010 Silas, Male Cleric (Wilster, the Cleric) - Plus 77730 Bones Mega Weapon Pack for shield 03647 Drago Voss, Assassin (Erikk, the Rogue) - Plus 77730 Bones Mega Weapon Pack for Bow 03836 Jakob Janssen, Monk (Monad, the Monk) 14005 Lord Ironraven (Joarin, the Paladin) 60174 Jirelle, Iconic Swashbuckler (Miriana Cooperson, the Bard [My character]) - Plus 03032 Musical Instruments (12) - Plus a shield from what I *thought* was Stern Kestrelman but apparently is not...it's a cleric with a big two-handed sword and he looks like he can't barely lift it. 02812 Kallista, Female Mercenary (Hilda, the Fighter) - Plus 77730 Bones Mega Weapon Pack for shield Base is a 5x7 trophy base found on Ebay, plus pink insulation foam and 1/4" foamcore middles for the dungeon floor. Textured with a knife, a pencil, a ball of tinfoil, and some basing sand. Background minis: a GW skeleton to represent an old dungeon casualty (same source for the filthy penant) and our old friend 77730 for the skull & crown shield on the wall. All told a couple weeks of work. Hard to say because it's not like this is a job where I'm punching a clock. Anyhow, hope you all like this! The usual caveat and asterisk chain of "pictures don't do it justice" should be implied. Please take my bad photographing of these lovely minis with a big grain of salt. I'll try to do better pics in the future if I luck into some actual photography skill!

Hi folks! It's been a while since I last posted here. Here is a Reaper mini that I painted to be the main and final antagonist in a egyptian Frostgrave campaign inspired by The Thaw of the Lich Lord. The undead queen awaits in her temple of doooom!

A few years ago I took part in a kickstarter from TT Combat - Desert of the Dead. These minis fit right into my Shifting Sands Project. WIP Here: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79372-shifting-sands-glitterwolf-paints-egyptian-undead/page/30/#comments I printed the bases on my Elegoo Mars. The one from the Officer is from Txarli Factory the one from the Guard is from ArchVillainGames. ********************** Deep into the Desert the Pharaohs still wage their wars. Each one wants to rule over the others, it matters not that they're already dead, even in unlife they still desire power. Each one commands vast armies of skeleton and mummy warriors and a variety of monsters and war machines. The Elite soldiers who guarded the Pharaohs in life now serve as Tomb Guards. ***********************

Finally got around to finishing up Kalanzar. Took some reference from @Sirithiliel Narthrax, and tried to do something similar. I feel like it looks pretty good.

Here's all the merfolk from the Bones V Kickstarter. I've been working on these off and on for about a year and really enjoyed them. I didn't spend a ton of time on them, but then they were so well designed and easy to paint I didn't need to. When I started this I was looking for something a little more colorful to paint, and since these were already getting painted as part of a nautical themed project I've got going, they fit perfectly for that. I'm really looking forward to these hitting the table. I've got some Evil DM plans to drag unsuspecting characters beneath the waves! First up, the group shot: This one is my favorite. She even got a pet shark. Cheers all and thanks for looking!

A leader for my undead minions. Really tried to blend and shade more with mini. A couple of touch ups and it’s ready to seal

Hello All, Here are photos of a 77203 Dark Heaven Bones "Alastriel, Female Elf Wizard" I completed yesterday. Thank you for looking.

Hi all: I feel like I spent forever working on this guy! I played around with mixing some oil glazes in, and while the wings look pretty good in person, it was really hard to get decent pictures. Anyways, this was a great lesson in patience and perseverance - it really took a while before he looked like he had any volume. I may add a few tufts of bashing to the edges, but otherwise I'm happy to end this particular dragon quest! Comments and criticism are welcome!

Hey all, I painted the studio model for the new Librarian Sophie! I love how she turned out. She got a BIG UPGRADE from the original bones model. It's so clean and detailed!!

Pretty stoked with how this OSL turned out. I've been motivated to paint this box of Hexbane Hunters from GW. They really captured the grim stalkers thing. Check it out. Did I sell the OSL job?

This is the 3d printed mini Reaper was sending out with orders recently. I picked it up because I was genuinely curious about the quality of the new material. Especially given that some I've what I've ordered in the last Kickstarter is going to be manufactured in this medium. I've only ever painted a few printed minis and they were fickle, fragile, and not too great on details. Admittedly that was a while ago and I know the technology has improved greatly in recent years. Boy was I surprised. I figured Reaper would be delivering a quality print, but I have to say that the details on this guy are way better than their typical bones and bones black material. I gave it my normal tabletop quick paint job for a mini this size and I'm very pleased with the outcome. If you're one of the people on the fence about this manufacturing process like I was, I highly recommend checking it out, I don't think you'll be disappointed. Anyways, here's the mini in question... Cheers all and thanks for looking!

A stone golem picked in the paint club. I made the mistake of using a cool white that had a slight blue hue on the highlights. Oh well. Overall I think the 3 grays used worked.

Hello Reapervalians! So tonight a Stonehaven Pixie, sculpted digitally by Michael Evans from Stonehaven Miniatures. If you're into 3D printings he's been putting lots of things out on My Mini Factory. I had to lighten these pictures up just a tad because I thought they had come out too dark, so hopefully they look all right. As always, colors really hard to choose, knew I wanted natural colors, but didn't know if just greens or some pops of colors. Anyways, hope you all enjoy! She comes on her her Little Rock and without a base. Definitely going to be painting more Stonehaven in the near future! It's kind of weird, as I approach them, they kind of make me think they are going to be "hard" to paint, with lots of little details and for example the space between the body and the wings, but they really turned out quite simply. I haven't really had any problems yet with getting access to parts of Stonehaven minis, usually pretty easy and a pleasure to paint.

I submitted this for the February RCL ‘23. She came out of the kickstarter box a little goofy (her left arm is a bit of a mess) although not nearly as bad as Zeus. As usual, Reaper immediately sent me a replacement w/o question, what great people! While he’s going to get chopped up for broken pillar parts, I thought I’d try something different and go for a bronze statue look with her. Just one coat of brown over the olive primer told me it was the right choice. This was just an amazing painting experience - each color (I used Reaper’s Power Palette on a brass statue picture to pick candidate colors) just seemed like a revelation. I can’t believe how much a light brown over drab green can so immediately read as ‘aged bronze’. Comments and criticisms are welcome. I’m omitting the front view, but rest assured I resisted the impulse to give her a shiny nipple to match more famous statuary!

Painted up this necromancer from Northstar. All Reaper paints, chiefly retro emerald, carbon gray, ginger cookie, ebony flesh, and maggot white (happy to discuss particular color groups in more detail). The base was from Dragon Forge and really seemed to work well with this character. Overall, I love this sculpt. It has about a million different elements that can be embellished, from the bottles to the bald head that invites freehand, the cloak, and the huge amount of jewelry. Comments and criticism are welcome.

Painted this one to resemble the Joker.

Howdy folks, Been a while since I posted anything, so here ya go. Getting back into some painting and lots of modding and prepping for future painting. Orc warband painted with mostly Army Painter speed paints and some GW contrast paints I picked up to test. Really like the way they work, especially the speed paints. The skin (I added more highlights), leathers and furs were all speed paints. Nice quick and decent results.

3D Printed on my Elegoo Mars. Design - Odoben Walrus Warrior from Arch Villain Games Base - Txarli Miniatures Part of my Horde of the North Project WIP here: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79398-horde-of-the-north-glitterwolf-paints-barbarians-and-mammoths/page/10/#comments ************************* Marching South the Horde grows, creatures and men of all sorts join when the Horde passes, or they're slain if they refuse. The Horde cheered when this giant pledged his allegiance. Who can stop such a mighty warrior? Surely not the weaklings of the Empire. ************************ SIZE COMPARISON That's a 32mm Bloodpriestess from Artisan Guild next to him. He's big!

So, I just started the hobby, picked up the, 'Reaper Miniatures 08906 Learn to Paint Kit Core Skills' package. Got my little painting area setup, and took about 90 minutes to complete, so here is my first mini. Sadly the images really don't do it justice, you can't quite make out the subtle drybrush highlights, or the crevices where the wash really did a good job. I went a little rogue, and decided to dot in two red eyes... although that was not part of the instructions, I wanted to give this guy a little something unique.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 44009 Bones Black "Daschelle, Female Rogue" I completed yesterday. Thank you for looking.

Did two layers of yellow ink washing and then some quick paint layers to get to a nice char effect. They’ll make for some great summons or foes in my dnd game.

This is the Thunderfoot Behemoth from one of the past Kickstarters (4 maybe?). I'm currently running a kind of "lost in time and space" campaign and have been wanting to put some dinosaurs down on the table for it. This got a pretty quick job and I'm happy enough with it to show it off here. It's got two of the colors I avoid the most when painting, yellow and orange, and I think they came out alright this time. I still need to make a fancy base for it so I can display it at some point in the future. But it will probably work a little better sans base on the tabletop. So I'll get to that some time later. I wasn't too sure about the color scheme I had selected so I tried it out on an old Ral Partha triceratops first. In the end I toned down the patterning and brightened it up a bit. But with the little guy it should make these two a fun little family unit. Cheers all and thanks for looking!

These are painted up for a Gamma World North America campaign. I really like these models! Somewhere, in North American Gamma World 2323, these WILL find the table!

I was messing around with some blending and color contrasts. I watched a video by the one and only Dr. Faust (I know you're on these boards somewhere #myhero). It was a red beholder he painted and it got my creativity going. I've also had some of this uhu glue I haven't put to use yet and this looked like a good opportunity. I can happily say I'm very pleased with the results. Open to any feedback.

Bones Zombie Ogre SKU: 77284. Gravestone-Greenstuffworld Part of my Children of the Night Project WIP: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79298-children-of-the-night-by-glitterwolf/page/29/#comments ********************* Zombies are a nightmare, they keep coming no matter how much you try to hurt them. What's worse than a zombie? A Zombie Ogre! *******************

I did this guy in January for the ‘23 RCL. I love me my old school monsters, and having the posable metal appendages was fun. Comments and criticisms are welcome! Rraahrrr!

This is one I received in a Box of Goodwill a while back. I thought she might be a Reaper mini, but could not find her listed. Metal, nothing to glue, fun to paint.

I painted a 3d print of this totally generic, nondescript elf fighter. I took the color scheme from Twilight Princess, so the greens are just a little bit muted. The pose has a tremendous amount of action in it and kind of makes me want to build a diorama around it. All Reaper paints, in particular the olive green triad, ginger cookie, ashen blue, and walnut brown.

There are some people who say that the original Nagash miniature was the worst miniature of all time. There are others who say that it is only terrible because Games Workshop rejected a decent head and decided to go with the clown skeleton face for their supreme lich demi-god of the undead. But I think that there's something to be gained from leaning hard into the "Giant Lich With A Christmas Tree On Your Head" look that I've really never seen on any miniature pull off like Nagash. So few skeleton miniatures are unafraid to wear skull embroidered Christmas tree hats. The Lich's little helper and tree started life as Reaper miniatures, before being drafted into the Christmas Lich's employment.

I just finished her for RCL. She was great example of a modern bones figure - crisp details, very little cleanup needed. Having larger eyes to work with was a nice change of pace! I was trying for a dark bunny look. I can’t remember the breed, but it was a UK variant, and I have the inspirational picture. Trying to overlay paint stripes at the color bounds seemed to give the impression of fur, but it was really tough to keep consistent!

Another one painted by my daughter. A mix of 2 or 3 speed paints wet blended for the body I believe.

3D printed on my Elegoo Mars Design - The Wood Spirit is from Great Grimoire, the Base is from Asgard Miniatures. Part of my Children of the Night Project. WIP here: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79298-children-of-the-night-by-glitterwolf/page/28/#comments *************** The most powerful of the witches are able to summon the spirit of the woods. Beware not to wander into the woods alone, it's no longer safe these days, ******************