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Hey, all! Things have been a little odd for me lately. After the huge rush that was ReaperCon, I've been feeling a bit of post-con blues. I've painted a bit, but I've mostly been building terrain for Freeblades. I finished this guy last week, and I'm almost finished with a second figure. My table is coming along nicely, and I'm excited to finish it up and get some games going!

Hi Everyone, I've decided to give the WIP thread thing a 2nd try. I hope 8 isn't too many mini's to include in one thread. But now I've got this idea that I'm going to paint them in an assembly line type fashion and see how that turns out. The two mini's that I've already started on are the last two of the DGS mini's (on the right side) The two on left are both Reaper Mini's (Technic Captain & Eando Kine) I used a hobby knife to saw away at Eando's right hand until I could separate his hand from his body, then I bent his arm until it was near a 90 degree angle. I then used a pin drill to drill out a slot in his hand, so after I attach halberd I'll need to fix his hand too. The halberd is modded too, I added the spear tip by pinning on the top portion of a sword blade. I kind of wish I had some sculpty material, but it turned out okay in the end. I also added the sword/gladius to the valkyrie, I didn't know if the hilt would interfere with her shield arm so I pinned it onto the back, I kind of wish it was on the side now, but it's too late for that. Last but not least I bought 4 hasslefree mini's, I decided to try out the resin ones, these will be the first resin mini's I'll try to paint. I still have to wash these, the two mini's on the left I've already assembled, the one on the far right, I'm holding off on adding her shield until later, since it gets in the way of the face. The dwarf will also have a shield on his backside, I'm not sure if I want to attach it now or later. The last picture shows the difference in scale, the dwarf is the shortest of the Hasslefree mini's and the Ragnar looking guy is the tallest. I may have a hard time painting their eyes. So I have 3 goals in mind for these mini's they are 1) Use a lighter palate/selection of colors, all the last mini's of mine have had a very dark look, so I want these to be significantly lighter. 2) Get better at shading the weapons, I'm going to try to use color blending on the sword/axe/spear blades 3) To buy some basing material and give that a try on this round of minis (I may practice on a few old ones first). Thanks for looking, I'll be asking for some tips/advice as I proceed with these.

Here are the next three minis, which complete the set of 4 knights that I bought. I went with a blue team theme for them, to contrast the red theme that the second team of roman looking era minis will get. I need to get a better light for my lightbox, the small LED lamp that I thought would work doesn't appear to be bright enough, which makes me have to use the camera flash still. On the Berserker (ugh it's early morning and I can't spell well), I painted him to be all NMM style except his belt buckle. On the two Knights I painted their armor NMM, then used metallics for the highlights, and on the weapons, and accessories. After painting the first Knight (one in the last picture with the gold cloak) I went back to doing the outlined style eyes. For the Berserker and Female Knight, I painted their armor with a dark blue gun metal color, I don't think it shows up too well in the pictures though. The Male Knight I freehanded his shield, but the other Knight had the design already cast onto her shield.

Hi so these are my first non Reaper brand mini's, these are the first 3 of 8 DGS brand mini's that I'm painting. Then I think I will do another round of Reaper mini's when these are done. On these mini's I tried to focus on learning how to paint the NMM look. so no metallic colors were used except on the buckles of the Legionnaire. The Gladiator is my first attempt at painting Black color armor, I wasn't really sure what to do here. I think of the three of them the Knight's armor came out the best.Any tips for painting black armor? Also I made a light box! but the pictures still came out a lot darker than I thought they would. I think it's because I was still using the camera flash.

This is the DGS Games Dryad (100010) that I got in one of their Kickstarters. A fun, quick paint job.