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So, I love to paint monsters - I always have really. I decided to have a little fun on the forums and post pictures of various monster minis I've painted at various times (some of them over 10-15 years ago) and start gathering them into hordes. Every so often I'll post a "horde" picture of everyone who's been gathered at the time. I'm going to go with discretely evil monsters, unless I've decided they're enslaved for some reason. Humans count, of course, if they look like they're evil. I'll also post pictures of some in groups. I'll try to throw a picture up here every few days, but I make no promises. Hopefully you'll find it as fun as I do! We should start off with a Prince of Evil, I think. A Demon Prince. I posted this guy in "show off" before, but I love both the mini and the job I did, so I'm going to post him again. This is an old Ral Partha mini - it was released in 1985 and it is altogether possible that I bought it in that time frame. I painted it fall last year. I suspect it was Ral Partha's "not Demogorgon," so I deliberately painted the faces like baboons: Hrm. That picture isn't as good as I thought it was. Ah well, you'll see him again. :) More to come!

So I mentioned that my parents gave me some of the minis I bought in my youth in a post entitled "Unexpected Old Swag" I decided to start painting the demon mini that was clearly supposed to be Demogorgon. It's a Grenadier mini from 1984. I went with a very dark color scheme - I remember the old picture from the Monster Manual and I like him black. To give him a more organic look I used blue highlights instead of grey, I rather like how it came out. The face, despite the fact that it was much more reptilian than others, I went with a color scheme like a baboon. I will freely admit I stole the slitted eyes from another paint job I saw. I also split the base and made a fissure beneath his feet, I wanted to do a lava base. I'm pretty much done aside for a few touch ups and the base. I could use some advice on the base, but if anyone has anything to add about the rest of the mini I'm definitely listening. I think I may do more of these WIPs, I made a nice rig so I can use different backdrops. Sorry to come to this one so late, but I just set this up.