Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

[Zardnaar]

When does it stop being a miniature and start being a scale model?

When minis don't fit even an approximate scale.

 

[MGibster]

A little more progress on John Rambo here. Has anyone ever seen a zipper like this? I’m no zipper expert, but usually they just go in a straight line, right?

The coat was a little more effort than expected. I used a base of Prussian Blue and dry brushed a lighter blue but didnlt care for the results. I did a glaze of Prussian Blue hoping to unify the colors, but I didnlt like that’s. Then I tried a glaze of dark blue and decided it was good enough.

 

[Staffan]

I'm mostly into miniature painting in order to get something that looks passable for a game. Among the more recent minis I painted are the PCs for Draw Steel, based on the Delian Tomb pregens:

And some goblins and undead for the adventure:

 

[Richards]

I like the Roman numerals on the fronts of the monster bases; that's a really good idea.

Johnathan

 

[Staffan]

I also painted an ogre and an ogre zombie that might show up later in the adventure (the zombie will be standing in for another living ogre, but those were the minis I had).

And some alchemists/plague doctors/rogues I'm actually fairly proud of that I have to find some way to use. When I saw the minis in one of Reaper's Kickstarters (Bones V), I knew I had to paint one of them in black and the other in white(ish).

 

[Staffan]

I like the Roman numerals on the fronts of the monster bases; that's a really good idea.

Johnathan

I added those in response to the first session we played with those goblins where I only used the color coding on their clothing/armor to differentiate them, but that was too ambiguous and hard to see. So convenience took precedent over aesthetics and I added the bases and numerals. For the first few I used I, II, III, X, and in some cases O, but then I figured I might as well go proper Roman numerals. You can't really see it on most of them except one of the goblin assassins (the ones with punching daggers), but I numbered them at three roughly equidistant places along the rim of the base so you'd always be able to see one of them.

 

[Richards]

I had assumed you used Roman numerals because it was easier to paint straight lines at that scale. (I assume that's true - I've never tried it myself, but I'd imagine it's easier to paint "III" than "3" for instance.)

Johnathan

 

[Staffan]

I had assumed you used Roman numerals because it was easier to paint straight lines at that scale. (I assume that's true - I've never tried it myself, but I'd imagine it's easier to paint "III" than "3" for instance.)

Johnathan

That was part of it, yes.

 

[Richards]

We use a lot of stand-up tokens in our campaign, many of them handmade by finding an appropriate image online and printing them out at the right size on cardstock. In those cases, I make sure to include a number on each token of the same type, to make it easy to differentiate between multiple similar foes. For pre-existing minis, I have ten dimes, each numbered "1" through "10" with a sticker, that we sometimes place next to identical minis to keep them straight during combat.

Low tech, but it works for us - and I simply do not have the painting skill demonstrated by you and the others in this thread.

Johnathan

 

[MGibster]

I'm mostly into miniature painting in order to get something that looks passable for a game. Among the more recent minis I painted are the PCs for Draw Steel, based on the Delian Tomb pregens:

That accurately describes me for the majority of my painting years.

I also painted an ogre and an ogre zombie that might show up later in the adventure (the zombie will be standing in for another living ogre, but those were the minis I had).

Those look pretty good!