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Take it easy on me, this is just my seventh mini to paint with three of them being a set of identical orcs. First time trying green stuff any tips for improvements or things you think I did well would be much appreciated. Trying to figure out what worked and what didn't. This is Archon the Aasimar Warlock and his familiar (which has yet to be named). He was taken as a youth by a fiend for his celestial blood. On the brink of corruption he was rescued by a paladin of the Raven Queen. The Raven Queen then took over his pact and he now serves her hunting those who would defy the natural process of death.

I got back to my Bones figures from the Kickstarter. The wolf familiar looks more like a dog to me. So I painted him to look like my wife's dog.

Continuing along with completing my Bones 1 KS painting and blogging challenge, I completed the Dolly Familiar figure this week. This leaves me just 3 figures left to paint and post of the 266 I got in the first Bones KS. This was a fun little figure to paint; but like many, I was at first confused as to what the little blob of white plastic was supposed to represent. A few quick searches here on the forum led me in the right direction. :) For the full step-by-step blog painting article, see: Dolly

This classic Grenadier Witch is from the Fantasy Warriors Personalities line, and sculpted by Mark Copplestone. I rushed her at the end to get her off my paint table. I still like how she turned out.

This little guy is from the Hell Dorado game. I'm not sure what he's supposed to be; I couldn't find him anywhere, I guess he's OOP. Anyway, I figure that he makes a pretty good goblin/imp/familiar. What do you think? Uh....blue goblin...Buglips isn't gonna be happy about this...

Dragon from 02399 Familiar Pack II by Sandra Garrity and Bear from Christmas Familiars.

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.... Ping the Panda from Bombshell Miniatures. He's quite small, familiar sized, very cute and was fun to paint.

Dwarfs are traditional for No Shave November, but I thought I'd start with another traditional short hairy folk: The Korred. Quick shots as I'm not getting natural light any time soon: I'm not sure where those white spots are coming from.

And finally, my thirtheenth and last finished mini of November 2015, which is the Treespeaker (SKU 112004) from DGS games, modified to hold the Bones dragon familiar from Familiar Pack 77176 in her hand. The casting did not seem to be very good on this particular mini, the details seemed soft and almost non existant (I have not seen this to be the case with other DGS minis), and her face did not turn out that great. I tried a lot of different color schemes until I finally just decided to finish her.

This is one of six Mouslings from the Bones II Kickstarter that I have painted up as characters. This is a druid with an orb on a staff and the tiniest chibi frog imaginable on top. WIP thread here. The other Mouslings: Thief, Beekeeper, Assassin, Ranger (with Bow), Archer (Robin Hood)

(Yay, typo's in the title, lol) This was painted at the recent NEMPA Paint Day on Sept. 19th by my painting padawan/rent-a-kid Spawn Number One. (My friend April's 15-yr-old son Thom...) It's the Bones version of the wolf familiar originally found in Familiar Pack I. It was primed with brown liner and painted rainy grey (body) and polished bone (muzzle, chest and tip of tail), washed with a mix of pure black and violet shadow, and then dry-brushed with the base colors again before getting some dry-brushed highlights. Base was primed with blue liner, basecoated a mix of a medium blue that came with one of the LTPKs and ghost white, then dry-brushed ghost white and then some pure white highlights were added along the top edge. I did the eyes for him. Because I was busy with so many other things during the Paint Day, we forgot to paint the nose. I'm still trying to instill the concept of brush control in him, but he has a bad habit of trying to tickle the mini with the brush rather than using long deliberate strokes.

For those all too uncommon encounters along the sea, we have the dread Dragon Turtle (and the not-so-dread normal turtle I practiced the paint scheme on)

While I was practicing wood recipes last month with my barrels and crates, I also started on this little guy, but didn't get him finished in time for last month's RP Challenge.

This guys were fun (and quick) to paint up. Snake on the right is a Indian Cobra as the sculpt intends. (The white on the hood follows the shape sculpted in.) Snake on the left is roughly a spotted viper. I converted the cobra by chopping of its hood, but should have just shorten the hood and added some green stuff to the remaining bit of hood to give it a wide face.

Another one I finished up during the Memorial Day paint binge, Anzen's little fire elemental familiar. Her hand was miscast so I sculpted her a new appendage, I think it came out ok. Front linked for Nudity: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_ZgOi70hDxnMHRoNm9CSE9fYmc&authuser=0

Rescued this little guy out of a melt bin at Reaper HQ and thought he'd be something nice and small to practice basing on. Since I forgot April's resolutionary painting target was for 5 miniatures and not 4, I needed the extra one, anyway! This is my first experience with wilderness tufts and their ilk, and I'm still pretty new at this whole "greenstuffing a base" thing. Any suggestions? I'm not really happy with painting the edge of the base green, but the grass didn't seem like it would survive...

Here is the Vampire Queen herself. She has a Magic Sword guarded by her Crow familiar. Her faithful undead servant lights the way. I tried a bit of OSL on the servant, my first try. I don't think it worked out that well, but you gotta try right? The familiar and sword are from Reaper, pack X. The Vampire and Servant are from the Freebooter range, sculpted by Werner Klocke. Sorry about the quality of some pics, still struggling with the camera.

And this is my regiment of Undead I'm working on. This is the Vampire Queen ( or maybe just her sister I haven't decided yet). She conquered a swamp, so she got an army of Undead and all kinds of swamp creatures. Right now she has to deal with an uprising of some of the swamp dwellers. Here she ( or sis) leads her regiment of mixed undead warriors to battle. All in her heraldry of reds and purples, with the snake symbol to show she owns the swamp.

The Female Leaders from my Horde from the North. Female Shaman from Shadowforge. Familiar is a Reaper Pinguin Barbarian Hero Is from Target Games/Chronophia with a Ral Partha Sabretooth tiger I believe. Not sure about the tiger.. And a Barbarian Female Hero with Black Panther from grenadier Linked because, well...nudity... "http://s444.photobucket.com/user/Balthar1964/media/Gallery%202013%20and%20up/shaman%202_zpsaw3xbxhe.jpg.html" "http://s444.photobucket.com/user/Balthar1964/media/Gallery%202013%20and%20up/North%20Shaman_zpsw89wrewb.jpg.html"//North%20Shaman_zpsw89wrewb.jpg" "http://s444.photobucket.com/user/Balthar1964/media/Gallery%202013%20and%20up/hero%20lady_zpsuz47ohol.jpg.html

Bonus mini for this months resolutionary challenge Based on previous postings, I guess this one also counts as NSFW. You Americans are so uptight about these things. Full frontal: https://maledrakh.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/150209-reaper-bones-fire-sprite-from-77196-familiars-2-front.jpg This is the fire sprite / small elemental / atronach from the 77196 Familiars 2 pack. I really struggle with fire and flames. I do think I am getting better even though still not very good. Definately need more practice.

A bonus mini for this months resolutionary challenge! Canine from 77176: Familiars pack I know it is not supposed to be a fox, but I wanted to do one and this one was close enough. It is a rather big fox though. 20mm base.

I packed up all my mini painting gear and took it with me to my sister's for the holidays. My Christmas gift to my niece and her three friends was for each of them to pick a mini out of my box of Bones and pick out something they'd like me to paint. Boy that sounds like something a BBEG would say, "Come here, children! Reach into my Box of Bones and draw forth a miniature monster!" They also picked the colors. So they decided they wanted a doggie, a unicorn, a wizard, and an Eye Beast. One of these things is not like the other. There's probably a future as an evil overlord for that particular child there. With the exception of the unicorn, all the minis were of the size to put on a base, and I managed to discover several things in the process. First, that the wooden disks I'd bought at the craft store when I grabbed my essential mini making kit last year with the intent of using them as bases don't work well with my super glue. The wood goes OH SO THIRSTY and slurps up the glue right into its innards. I put glue on the top, it came out the bottom. Fortunately said wood is so thirsty that it kept all the glue inside itself, rather than affixing a 1 inch round disk to my sister's kitchen table. I'd already gone through one of her walls, I didn't need to add yet more carnage and destruction to the bill. Slapped some Reaper primer on the top of the thing and on the bottom of my Sculpey adornments and that seemed to make the glue work. Tried out Scupley for bases for the first time, nothing complex. Mooshed it onto a wooden disk, texturized it with a bit of packing foam, cooked it in the oven, painted it Grass Green. So the doggie was done first, as there wasn't much of anything to do, with the color of grey being chosen by my niece. I think I used Honed Steel and attempted to drybrush on some lighter grey, but the black wash I used seems to have obscured that. So a simple, plain, common mutt type of doggie. The Unicorn was selected for the poor mite that unfortunately was at home sick. So as little girls are prone to chosing, the once proud beast was to be slathered in shades of purple and pink. Though my only purple is Sparkling Amethyst, which happens to be one of my favorite paint colors. I didn't want to futz with mixing, respecially since my only reds are on the darkish side. Something that will likely be remedied by the arrival of the HD paint sets from Bones II. Not much to see here, Amethyst on the body, the promotional cancer awareness pink for the mane, tail, and... floofy hoof things... I'm not sure if they're feathers or fetters. Used a lighter gray wash to bring out the detail to try and keep the pink from washing out. Did not work quite so well. Maybe a drop of pink in the wash next time might help. So Mr. Wizard here was to be painted blue with a black staff. I thought that looked a bit dull, so I painted the fringe on his robe in yellow. Originally he was Sparkling Blue, but that looked very dull visually, so I had to throw a few coats of HD Dragon Blue from my Bones Learn to Paint Kit over it to liven it up a bit, and used the HD Pale Saffron for the fringe. The staff is pure black, and the face and hands are Tanned Highlight. I didn't even try to paint the eyes, as I was running down to the wire finishing these things. There were bits where his dark blue wash wasn't quite dry when I put on the varnish, so it got a little bit smeared in places. So Mr. Eye Tyrant I think I did the best job on, though he was a pain in the butt. I painted him black first, then put on the Amethyst, and decided that looked too dark. So two coats of white, then the Amethyst again, which looked better. The future villainess decreed that the fearsome beastie was to have green eye stalks/tentacles, which was going well until I accidentally got a bit too much Pig Iron+Viper Green wash in my brush, and had significant spillage all the way down his backside, requiring yet another coat of Amethyst. Pure White toofs, Blood Red eye and tongue, some Pig Iron on his base, as it was rocky and not broccoli like the doggie. He wasn't varnished when pictures were taken, but I put a matte coat on him and then used gloss on his tongue to make it look all gross and drooly and such. And here's some group shots:

Painted up my Christmas familiars. I'm keeping the seal, and giving the polar bear and the penguin to my two sisters for Christmas

I painted my sheep familiar for D&D he has a hat.

Finally finished!