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Infant Sunstalker

Nov

25

2020

The campaign that comes with the Kingdom Death Suntalker expansion features the settlement of survivors helping to raise the offspring of the Sunstalker from infancy. It seems that the lifecycle of sunstalkers involves being nursed by survivors and eventually eating them when grown enough to set out.The art includes a few pictures of infant and ...

Star Wars Starcadia

Nov

20

2020

Starcadia Quest’s linup of personalities includes a lot of delightful tributes to popular science fiction, and no science fiction is more popular than Star Wars. Star Wars references and jokes pervade the game, far beyond the Thorntroopers expansion.Here are a number of terrific Star Wars inspired characters fighting for Starcadia. Phasma’s silver armor is a ...

Aftermath

Nov

11

2020

Last time I posted up just the heroes and bosses from Aftermath, but here is the whole set of painted miniatures, including the rival gangs.Once again, the main theme was to create various textures on all of the minis, like the scales on the Scaled Ones, fur on the rodents or leather on the scrappers.Also, ...

Locust Patrol Vehicle

Nov

4

2020

For whatever reason, today just seems like a good day to post another post apocalypse heavily damaged vehicle. Don’t know that I can say for sure why.Here is the Locust from Seedy Tea Publishing’s Simulacrum Protocol line. Freehanding the insignia was really interesting.

Post Apocalypic Battle Damage

Oct

30

2020

Wear and tear is usually a welcome addition to most vehicle models. After all, tank armor is made to take a few hits.One of the things to keep in mind when painting something like that is the story it tells. Where and how you place it tells of how the damage happened. Rusty areas are ...

Cthulhu Death May Die

Oct

22

2020

A little while ago, I got in on a Kickstarter for CMON’s mythos game. It is a fast dungeon crawler where insanity points are used like XP for upgrades up until you go totally nuts and lose.And, of course, you get to shoot Cthulhu in the face.Here are some of the minis from the game. ...

The Wurmspat

Oct

16

2020

Warhammer Underworlds is great for having small groups of great characters from the Age of Sigmar setting.Here is the Nurgle warband- the Wurmspat

Metallic Fun with Greyknight Rhinos

Oct

14

2020

A lot of top painters have spent many years devising and revising new ways to portray metal objects on miniatures. We were all very impressed by early non-metallic metals, and later when the methods developed for NMM were refined with more precise reflections and bounce lighting. One of the more recent innovations include a lot ...

Aftermath Heroes and Bosses

Oct

8

2020

Aftermath is a dungeon crawler board game that is the heir to both Mice and Mystics and Stuffed Fables.The game takes place in a post apocalyptic world where rodents have formed colonies to scrounge resources for survival, cobbling together the things they need.For the set, I went with a lot of textures and a lot ...

Fan Cake Toppers

Oct

2

2020

I always love working with the cake topper ideas my clients bring me.A lot of cake toppers follow a single theme, usually expressing their fandom in a certain direction, but some couples prefer to have something that expresses a number of the fandoms they belong to.Here’s an example of exactly that kind of topper, with ...