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I'm back with a few more ghosts painted. For being such a simple color scheme I'm not sure these ones turned at as good as the first ones, but I'm sick of fiddling with them.

I actually made a decent start on the Chapter 2 boss for Oathsworn, but it's another giant project so it'll probably be the better part of a week before it's done.

I also played my first game of Oathsworn yesterday. Despite screwing up the rules in a couple major ways for my encounter with the giant rat queen, I did most of right enough to not feel too bad about moving on, and I can say that the game is pretty fun so far. It was a very tight squeeze fitting everything on my small 3' x 3' table though as it's much more of a space hog than I was hoping for.

Oooh. Or possibly, ooooOOOOooooOOOOoooh

I like the spots of metallic to break up the ghostliness.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Oooh. Or possibly, ooooOOOOooooOOOOoooh

Happy to see you like these ghostly fellows inmygravenimage. They're a bit basic, but hopefully they resemble the movie closely enough.

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
I like the spots of metallic to break up the ghostliness.

Thanks Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll, I'm glad to hear that design choice worked out since I try to offer some contrast in pretty much everything I paint, even if it's just a little bit.

I hope you guys aren't getting too bored of these Warriors of the Dead yet since that's what I've brought more of once again today, but now that I'm kind of getting the process down more they're getting faster to crank out. I can say I'm more pleased with the results this time than the last batch which was a bit of a disappointment imo.

So here are another 4, which means the unit is now half done, along with a couple of group shots. The other 10 are all exact duplicates of these same sculpts so I might hold off on posting them until they are all done, but it should be a more impressive sight by then.

I'm back once again. This time I've returned with the next boss encounter for Oathsworn.

SPOILERS: If you're actually one of the people who have this game and care about spoilers then I guess come back later once you've fought it already, for everyone else go ahead and enjoy presently. I know there is probably a way to hide the pictures, but I don't know how to make it work for anything besides text.

So without further ado, this is the Satyr. I should have put in a normal sized model beside him for scale because he is humongous.
To the top of his staff is 8 inches tall so it's kind of surprising I managed to finish him in only 2 and a half days. He's so big that he comes in two pieces so he can fit back in the box.

The next Oathsworn encounter might be my favorite sculpt of the whole game so keep an eye out for that at some point.
I also finished another 4 warriors of the dead, but like I said I'll post them all at the end.

Ooh he's a big fella. I might use those colours for Lord Balam for Hellboy. Nice job.

Yeah it's not until you notice the body on the staff that you REALLY understand how big this guy is! Great paint job, love the ruddy flesh.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ooh he's a big fella. I might use those colours for Lord Balam for Hellboy. Nice job.

Thanks a lot, it's flattering anytime someone thinks of taking inspiration from something of mine.
It's a really simple recipe: a dark off-brand brown which could be substituted for rhinox hide, doombull brown, and then tuskgor fur.

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Yeah it's not until you notice the body on the staff that you REALLY understand how big this guy is! Great paint job, love the ruddy flesh.

Thanks Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll, I'm chuffed to see you like him as well. This next one is just as big, if not bigger.

I've finally returned with the aforementioned subsequent boss for Chapter 3 of Oathsworn, the sand worm, or at least that's what it appears to be.
I took a bit of a break to watch Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power and all 3 seasons of the show From Dusk Til Dawn since it was disappearing from netflix. I've also been having fun playing Plague Tale Requiem with God of War Ragnarok to follow shortly so needless to say there are a lot distractions at the moment.

Anyway you can see from the pics with the marine in them just how massive this guy is, which is to say big enough to expose just how basic my paper backdrop is. My sister really wanted me to paint him with all black and white stripes like the one from Beetlejuice, but I thought it would be too monochromatic.
Now with him done I was going to try and get a couple more play sessions of Oathsworn in to see how far I can advance without getting brutally slaughtered.

If I get anymore painting time done I may just go back to a game I haven't touched in a long time, Cthulhu: Death May Die, since I'm currently following the kickstarter campaign for the new expansion, and it's reminded me both how cool it was and that I still have so much left of it unpainted.

That's really creepy. I love it. And yeah man, keep doing what you're doing. My favourite online content is all the non mainstream stuff.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's really creepy. I love it. And yeah man, keep doing what you're doing. My favourite online content is all the non mainstream stuff.

I'm happy to hear it and to have you along for the ride inmygravenimage because I have a giant pile to slowly make my way through, most of which isn't very mainstream.

As I mentioned last time, Death May Die has been pushed back to the forefront of my attention with their new campaign so I'm proud to unveil to you Meryl, the first investigator I've ever finished.
It helps me justify purchasing more of something if I actually manage to make some progress on what I already have first so I'll try and work on a bit more of it at some point.

CMON pumps their games with an almost infuriating number of player characters to fill out their stretch goals with so if you include the new ones coming to the expansion there's actually over 60 to choose from, even though I mostly stick to the same 7 or 8 I find most useful.

Meryl has perhaps the best ability in the game. Since she is an actor, she can copy an ability from any of the other investigators in your party each turn. Since there is only one true medic character out of that myriad of investigators, she essentially doubles your healing capacity while simultaneously giving you access to much more.

That's really cool, I love depth of shading on the cloth, and mechanically interesting. There's a similar character in Arkham Horror LCG who can change the role she's performing allowing you massive deck-building flexibility - really useful in a campaign, particularly if there's just a couple of players. I know what you mean about infinite characters to choose from - we have that problem with Brimstone, which also comes with gender-swapped versions of them all too. Talk about paralysis of choice!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's really cool, I love depth of shading on the cloth, and mechanically interesting. There's a similar character in Arkham Horror LCG who can change the role she's performing allowing you massive deck-building flexibility - really useful in a campaign, particularly if there's just a couple of players. I know what you mean about infinite characters to choose from - we have that problem with Brimstone, which also comes with gender-swapped versions of them all too. Talk about paralysis of choice!

Thanks for providing yet more positive feedback. I've heard Arkham Horror is fun, but I have a hard time going back to standees after getting so many cool models to choose from.
BTW they've unlocked even more investigators these past few days and revealed another expansion so they're crossing even further into the absurd with about 80 now.

Hot on Meryl's heels is another Cthulhu investigator. He's one of the few who is based on an actual person, in this case Ernest Hemingway.
I'm particularly proud of the paint job on his sweater. He has a bit of a different skin tone since he looked more tanned in the game art.

I've actually never played a game with him since with so many characters I actually never noticed him before. His unique ability doesn't sound as cool as Meryl's since he just gets bonuses when fighting monsters, which are everything except the cultists and the Elder Ones, but he's a good damage dealer.

This next Cthulhu investigator is named Elizabeth.
The game takes place in the 20's so she's basically a flapper girl.
Her unique ability is very powerful because it's just straight up getting more and more rerolls. At the max level she can reroll 3 dice from every single roll she makes.

Her skin came out a bit darker than I intended, but I don't know if touching it up is worth the risk of messing up what I've got.
I usually play with 4 investigators so if I finish 1 more, the healer, I may actually get the game to the table for the first time at least a year.

I rather like her skin tone, contrasts well with the yellow.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I rather like her skin tone, contrasts well with the yellow.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I didn't really want to meddle with it anyway.

I'm back already with the fourth and final member of my starting party of investigators, Ahmed. He's not my favorite design or model, but he is pretty much required to have any hope of winning.

There are still a lot of Cthulhu demons I have left to paint, not to mention more investigators, but I might move on to something else for now, we'll see.

Love the fez. Because fezzes are cool.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Love the fez. Because fezzes are cool.

Thanks inmygravenimage. I put my freshly painted investigators to use in a game, but got swarmed by cultists before I could even disrupt the ritual to make Cthulhu vulnerable.
It's a good game, but I might have to houserule it because the balancing is all over the place.

I took a break from painting board game stuff to work on a bit more Lord of the Rings, in this case my Mordor Troll Chieftain.
It's a bit of a departure from the normal paint scheme for one I found on youtube instead.
I'm not sure it turned out that good and the skin is a bit darker than the other one I did, but he's not too bad I suppose.
There were a couple small touchups after this, namely his upper lip and a couple areas where the ink had pooled on his armor.

I like him, he's life a giant monstrous lotr mandrill.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I like him, he's life a giant monstrous lotr mandrill.

Thanks inmygravenimage, once again I'm glad to have not disappointed you. Part of me still wants to change him to a more traditional dark steel for his armor. Sometimes things don't quite turn out the way I envisioned them, but at least for now I have too many projects to choose from to start going backwards.

Case in point, I just had another big kickstarter arrive. This time it's Aeon Trespass Odyssey in which you sail around the ancient Greek world using titans to fight the even more gigantic primordials.

I had to take a somewhat extended break from painting for almost 3 weeks because I had a bit of a neck injury. Nothing serious, but I had to splurge for a visit to a chiropractor since it refused to go away on its own. Hopefully that's behind me now though, and I can begin to make up for lost time.

So here is my first titan completed, Herodotus. I'm much more pleased with how he turned out than my troll. The art from the game depicts them with a very pale skin tone so that's what I went for. The titans are mostly space marine sized, but they had to do it that way because they are totally dwarfed by the primordials. You can still get an idea of the scale from the fact that he is using a ship's hull as a shield.

I've got 3 more starting titans to do since you always fight with a party of 4. After that I can move on to the first boss, the Hekaton, which is based on the Hecatoncheires. It's a monster made entirely of arms and hands, and it's the model which most attracted me to the game.
I just hope I can actually manage to fit a game session on my somewhat meager table, but if I can get through the tutorial I should really get back to making progress on Oathsworn rather than have another giant campaign on the go. I already have Middara mostly finished, but I'm waiting on Wave 2 to deliver for that since it has minis for some of the bosses that are normally just standees.

I did get word recently that 2 more big kickstarters should be shipping out from China any day now so my hands will be even more full soon enough. They are Vampire the Masquerade Chapters and The Witcher: Old World in case you were wondering.
I'm not sure which one I'm more looking forward too.
The good thing about Chapters is that for not that much extra I got the pledge that includes a set of prepainted character minis so I'll be able to get straight to playing that, though I'll still have 16 NPC's plus all the stretch goals to work on.

That skin tone is really interesting, I like it a lot.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That skin tone is really interesting, I like it a lot.

Thanks for the positive feedback. Besides the card art I partly did it that way because I'm running out of my good flesh tones. It's another really simple recipe: Dark Reaper Grey, Warpfiend Grey, Ionrach Skin.

I'm back with titan #2, Solon. I wasn't satisfied with how dark his club was at first so I went back and re-highlighted a bit. If you happened to catch this post as soon as it happened, this is the now updated version.

That skin color is great! Thanks for letting us in on how you did it.

 ph34r wrote:
That skin color is great! Thanks for letting us in on how you did it.

Welcome ph34r, always happy to see some new people come across my blog. It's flattering to hear that not only is my new paint scheme getting a good response, but that someone might actually want to know how to do it.
I have a gigantic and ever expanding backlog to make my way through so usually my processes aren't anything that complicated, but I'd like to think they mostly turn out pretty good.

On that note I'd like to wish anyone and everyone who happens by a happy new year!
I've painted a lot of minis in 2022, about 77 or so by my count. That's probably a personal best for me, but I'm hoping to do even better this year since I don't have college classes to worry about anymore.
There is still a lot left in my collection still unfinished with even more big board games set to deliver this year. Maybe I'll even squeeze in some more Lord of the Rings or the odd Chaos mini at some point. I should also find time to paint at least one Creature Caster model since I only managed to finish one in 2022, but they are big time-consuming projects.

The first one done in 2023 is my 3rd Aeon Trespass Odyssey titan, Philoctera, which is a bizzare name.
Just one more and the starting group will be complete which means I can start moving on to the primordials.
I almost forgot there is also a mini of the Argo, which is the ship that you use to explore the ancient Greek world, before I can finally try out the tutorial.

Here is the fourth and final of my starting party of ATO titans, Ulyssea, along with some shots of the whole group.

Her upper chest doesn't really show up well in the pictures since it involves some dark brown netting and what appears to be wagon wheels, but it looks okay in person.
It will probably be a while before I can finish the Hekaton.

The Hekaton, based on the hecatoncheires in Greek mythology, is one of the main models that attracted me to Aeon Trespass Odyssey in the first place so I wanted to make sure I did a good job on him. I think he turned out not too shabby.

Now I just have their ship, the Argos, left to do before I start playing the tutorial.

Ooh. Very gribbly. Nice.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ooh. Very gribbly. Nice.

Thanks, that's a good way of describing it. Greek mythology is chock full of cool monsters. The only other media I've seen an example of the Hecatoncheires in was God of War Ascension which I loved despite it not getting great reviews. His skin turned out a bit darker than I wanted though since I was hesitant to highlight it too much, but I ended up going back afterwards to try and lighten it up at least a little bit.

Next up is the aforementioned ship, the Argo. It's obviously inspired by the story of Jason and the Argonauts. There's nothing in the pictures to show scale, but it's on about a 25 mm base so the details on it are pretty tiny.

I just finished playing the tutorial already which consists of a fight with the Hecatoncheires and subsequently sailing around which introduces you to the "Voyage Phase". So far it's actually pretty fun and straightforward enough, but I have no doubt that the difficulty is going to increase exponentially. There are only about a dozen monsters that you fight, but they keep leveling up as the game goes on.

I also just worked on my first conversion in probably several years. I've been so focused on all these board games, but there is one particular mini for ATO that has such a stupid and ugly design that I just couldn't leave it alone. What makes it even more perplexing is that the company actually had a perfect version of it to begin with, but then decided to completely ruin it for no good reason.
It's pretty much the only bad mini in the bunch though so they can't all be winners sometimes.
I'd include a photo of my attempt at fixing it, but I find it's hard to capture detail very well in anything that's unpainted so it will have to wait.

Now the question is do I continue painting models for this or go back to Oathsworn? I think technically Oathsworn is a shorter game, at least by comparison anyway, but it's hard not to be distracted. Part of me even want's to paint more Cthulhu. Decisions, decisions.

Well, I'm biased, but the Argo is boss (water lovely too) so more of the same!

Cool stuff here just started painting Death may Die for the same reason!

 Llamahead wrote:
Cool stuff here just started painting Death may Die for the same reason!

Welcome Llamahead, thanks for checking out my work. I definitely have to get back to painting Cthulhu, it's just a matter of when. I looked at your hunting horror. Nice color choices, I still have yet to start that unit at all.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, I'm biased, but the Argo is boss (water lovely too) so more of the same!

Thanks, I didn't think it would get such a warm reception since there are a couple areas that could have been done a bit neater, but since you are enjoying ATO so far I think you are really going to like today's entry.

It's the second primordial from the game, the Hermesian Pursuer.
As you can see from the titan mini for scale, he's pretty big so he took a while to finish, but it helped that he's also pretty spindly.
The water was a bit tricky, as was getting the wings to match, but I think he turned out pretty well in the end.
There is also a tiny version of him for when he chases you across the world map, but I'll get to that later.