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I guess it's official. I'm knee deep in 2 boxes of Brimstone figures to paint now.

Started batch painting all the spiders, and started in on the heroes for City of Ancients. Not sure how I'll do "El Boracho," the Bandito from the set up yet.

Damn their faces are like mush though.

Having gotten started on the painting, the kids are now expressing some interest in actually playing the game.

I contacted FFP about 1.5 shipping and was quoted a 3 digit figure to get the current stuff shipped. Yeah. I don't think so.

May go ahead and order some of the non- KS monsters from Miniature Market along with some Dwarf Slayers.

Glad I got everything straightened out with FFP in regards to Brimstone shipping.

As I suspected, that was shipping to Canada. They got mixed up due to the way my address reads.

Guess I'm getting 1.5 shipping for Brimstone after all!

To celebrate I went ahead and started painting up some more heroes.



Apologies for the rushed photo (it was overcast and raining when I took it). Neither had a face really. I had to guess where their details were supposed to go. I think the one on the left is a Marshall, while the one on the right is a Gunslinger. Irritated with the Marshall because his eyes and eyebrows look like they're all one blob of paint. They weren't! They're different colors too!

In all honesty, I don't really care. They're simplistic sculpts, they're getting simplistic paint. I decided I'd do everything with a sandy, dirty like color for the bases, which are already textured. A little ink and drybrushing on it makes it look much more natural. I've done that with a few enemies so far, but these guys haven't receive that treatment.

I figure after multiple blasts of gloss sealers and a matte varnish in the end, they should be pretty durable and can probably just be tossed back into the box.

Progress is moving along nicely with all the enemies from the City of Ancients as well. All the void spiders are in need of an ink wash, the stranglers just need their teeth and claws finished, and I need to drybrush the Night Terrors, and all the enemies will be done!

In between Brimstone stuff, I've been working on this guy, who's just about complete.



Dude was a MESS when I got him. Broken parts, terrible glue job, weapons were royally mangled (I tried to repair them, but I don't have any Ogre bits left to repair the club's handle), tons of flash ALL over him.... it was a royal pain in the ass. They pinned that stupid back banner on too, and it did not want to separate, making painting his back very obnoxious. I persevered, and outside of his base and the strings the skulls hang from, he should be good to go.

As you can see he's a fair bit chunkier than a regular Ogre. Is he worth triple the price of one, or just him versus an entire other box? Not sure. I got mine for under 30, so I can't complain too much.

That's an imposing ogre.

So I find my goal for March has morphed from working on Tau to getting my core boxes for Shadows of Brimstone painted. With the 1.5 stuff shipping soon (hopefully, since I added it on late) I figured it's high time this game gets some heavy rotation.

Just about everything in The City of Ancients box has at least gotten base coated. Like I said before, I'm going to stick to really simple paint schemes and really simple base design since I figure these will probably see some serious abuse on the table, especially if my kids get in on the action like they say they will.



Not pictured are one of the Night Terrors who was still drying, as well as two tentacles that I forgot downstairs and need to do tonight.

Next up will be highlights and shading on just about everything. At least the spiders are all pretty much finished. Probably do the Stranglers next.

Those are wonderfully gribbly. It's a shame they weren't cast better. How is the game itself?

I seem to recall that when I played it with highlord tamburlaine, we got totally overwhelmed in our very first encounter and immediately died when we triggered a cave-in. Hopefully he's done better in subsequent games.

As for the figures, those are very bright and colorful. You really got a lot done quickly. Is one of those tentacles a Day Of The Tentacle reference? That big green monster on the right looks more like it's puking than anything.

I *was* thinking of Day of the Tentacle when painting one of them. I don't think a single tentacle matches, but that was intentional.

The big Behemoth or whatever it's called does in fact look like its barfing up the tentacles. The kids said the same thing. I just need to finish the Bandito's sombrero and find where I put the Piano Lady, and the set will all be base coated at that point.

Personally, I love the game. It oozes theme, and with all the new expansions coming out I can give it its proper day in the sun.

The few times I've played it have all been met with relative disaster, either due to poor draws, poor dice rolls, or terrible events just damning my heroes.

Those have all been one- off adventures though. I've been waiting for the 1.5 stuff before I really attempt to do a campaign with persistent heroes.

I know with the new stuff coming out, cover is going to play a bigger role, enemy formations that grant bonuses becomes a thing, more wily ranged adversaries will be showing up... there's a lot to look forward to.

At the recent pickup day they had with FFP, there was mention that somewhere down the line they'd like to do a Level 9+ expansion for maxed out heroes some day.

Just a quick pic of my latest Brimstone work in progress.

Got the Night Terrors in the back looking halfway decent. Need to go back over their eyes. Used a blue glaze since I took this picture and am quite pleased with the results.

My Bandido has had a lot of touch up since I took this as well. Started in on the Preacherman as well. Should be able to post him tonight/ tomorrow morning.

Looks like my Swamp Slug and other goodies from Miniature Market are showing up this afternoon. Hurray! Need to figure out what is going to Barzam for his birthday, what I'm keeping for myself, and what is ending up as eBay fodder to fuel my Kickstarter habits.

Looking good. Terrors are pretty creepy, probably even more so in low light stalking you.

Yep, they're looking good. Considering how soft the details are on the models, you've done a good job on them.

Got my Miniature Market stuff in. Tried figuring out what I wanted to use for the base coat on their bodies.



Also got that Preacher done.



Glare hit his eye and it looks like he's got a giant blob of an eyeball there. He doesn't.

Can't help but hear Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" every time I see him.

I went and picked up a few Malifaux figures as "upgrades" for some of the basic Brimstone figures. Probably going to pick up a few random Wild West Exodus figures for a similar use as well.

Nice work on the Brimstone stuff. The right hand cowboy right up top has a real Al Swearengen feel to him somehow.

I'm glad you are able to discern more detail there than I am! I can kinda see what you're talking about, but man, seriously, these guys are so mushy amd mashed up I might as well put gravy on them and have them as a side with a piece of chicken or turkey!

Boy am I not updating this as often as I should!

I tried to be productive this past weekend. Got all my Brimstone stuff I've shown off blasted with multiple coats of sealants, so they should be good to just hurl back in the box. Took care of the majority of the Khorne stuff as well, so my waiting to get sprayed pile is substantially diminished.

However my waiting to get primed/ built/ finished piles have all grown substantially larger. Got a bunch of GW metal ogre characters for very reasonable prices this weekend. Also got my Hammer & Forge pledge of barbarian dwarfs. There's also a few Start Collecting boxes waiting to get cracked open as well...



I started, finished, based, and sealed this Mantic Ogre hero, Gorkaorkarok or whatever his name is. I still really like the restic Ogres Mantic made. I'm going to have to give their metal ones a spin, see if I like them as much. They don't seem as primal/ animalistic looking as these.



Picture does not want to cooperate, but I got this Chaos Lord just about done as well. Need to do the scar on the back of his head, and a little shading on his horns. Always liked this sculpt.



Pulled out a few already primed Antimatter Games figures to work on while their DeepWars campaign is going on. Everyone is in various stages of painting completion. Barzam did the Draconid floating in midair there.

The octopus faced Dark Mariner is actually finished, it's just his base that isn't. The bug scientist is in the same situation. I'll take better closeups of the two of them when the bases are done. The giant tongued- Gark is the only one who actually needs to get finished on all fronts.



....and here's some other totally random stuff! English Footmen, a Confrontation goblin, and a Saxon Thegn. My local shop had tons of plastic historicals for ridiculously cheap prices, so I had to act on it and grab some. Figure they can be used for Frostgrave or something. Also just gives me something new to paint.

There's also an old Chronopia dwarf sitting in the background of all these photos that finally got finished, but he's a little shy still.

Plenty more random stuff coming up too! Just you wait and see!

Finished up the Octoguy in the previous picture last night.



Thankfully he isn't as dusty looking in this picture as he is in person. He'd been sitting on a shelf near an open window for quite a few months. Thankfully I got most of it cleaned up.

Also finished up a Brimstone Slug of Jargono.



I'm not sure what class the girl is supposed to be. A ranged one? We'll get her done regardless. Dug out an Indian Scout to work on as well, and a few more of the walking dead zombie guys that go in the Swamps of Death box.

I think she's a Rancher (don't have my set any more, so my memory is a little hazy).

Nice job on the Octopus dude.

Was the slug a post-KS release? It seems more sharply detailed than the lumpy KS figures. Unfortunately, while you did a good job on it, it's giving me flashbacks to Galaxy of Terror.

Has my flurry of activity with the Dark Mariners influenced you to get back into Deepwars?

Slug was a post-KS release, yeah. Same with the hellvermin (the two headed giant rat monster) I started some time back. I would not be surprised if we encounter them over my vacation.

You are down for playing since there is no spousal intervention to stop us, correct? Or are we going HAM on Kingdom Death?

I will admit that your Mariners may have had some influence in getting me off my duff to finish mine.

The Kickstarter currently running has also spurred me into action. Doesn't hurt that the theme of underwater monstrosities and mermaids resonates with both kids too.

Love the Slug . I think he could do with some spots though. Brimstone stuff looks great with the basecoating done. Also I think I need a preacher........just don't tell my pastor.

I'm not sure if Saturday will work as I'm going paintballing with the Obstinate Baton and that's going to be an all day thing. Beyond that, I'm up for anything.

Saturday is fine- got family stuff to do anyways. I'm thinking more next week when I'm off on break and everybody else is out of town.

Regardless, progress continues in the land of Brimstone. Rancher has most of her base coats down.



Needs some highlighting and shading still. Probably going to try and put a checked pattern on the red stuff.... something to break up the monotony of a single color block.

Here she is ready to blast away some random undead from the other Brimstone box (Swamps of Death) that I figured I'd play around with painting.



Somehow a random Mantic skeleton crawled his way into the melee as well.

My Malifaux Guild Guards came in yesterday, and I already started working on them. Should see them showing up by this weekend. Also started in on a few other random critters from Swamps of Death.

Trying to figure out how best to do the eyes on the Goliath (big green tentacle vomiting guy). His skin is so dark green that the shiny black eyes get lost in his skin. Maybe I should put some lightened highlights around the eyes to bring them out more?

Those Zs actually look really nice. Rancher looks good, too.

Maybe do the Goliath's eyes in a different color? Or lighten up the coloring around the eyes and dace?

Tentacle Vomit Guy's eyes might benefit from being treated like gemstones, with spot highlights that won't get lost according to the lighting.

I like those zombies-- they remind me of Solomon Grundy (the Green Lantern villain).

Alright.

So I think I came up with a good solution for the Goliath's eyes. I was looking at the artwork on the box, and noticed the eyes are all red, which is interesting because I'm pretty sure they were black in the artwork inside the manual (or maybe it mentioned the creature having jet black eyes in the fluff).

I had played with a few different layers of various greens around the eyes, but in the end I settled on using some red around the eyes. I thought the results were pretty decent.



At least you can see clearly where they are now. I'm going to go back over his gum line and shade it in, and put a little more detail on his teeth. Almost finished with the whole box!

Speaking of finishing up the box, I also found my Saloon Girl. She was in a box of scatter terrain. I had a feeling she was there- a lot of it had been sitting on my dining table when I was building Brimstone figures, and I just kind of swept everything into a box when we were going to have company over (and obviously, promptly forgot about her).



Obviously she's not done. I just started her! Trying to find inspiration on how to finish her online. She'll be done this weekend for sure. You can see my test colors on a Hellbat in the background there.

In addition to the Saloon Girl, I found my last (missing) Void Spider. Once they're out of the way, I'll have completed all of Shadows of Brimstone! Yay! Time to get a photo of it all then!

Wow, that's a lot of madness inducing monsterage, way to balance it out with some classy ladies

Not sure if classy is the word I'd use to describe the saloon girl....

I've got some Iron Empire women from Raging Heroes I'll be working on for when I need my classy ladies!

No work (SPRING BREAK) means more painting. Especially since I'll be trapped next week in a Purgatory- like hell of being trapped at home with the kids and NOBODY left to pawn them off on.

Doesn't help that my TV just died on me after 10+ years, so I'm going to need something to distract them FAST.

Stayed up late last night because why not if I don't have to get up super early, and wrapped up these two Malifaux ladies.


A Guild Guard (who's male counterpart is desperately hunting for a similarly sized base)



Lady Justice

And they scale mighty nicely with my actual Brimstone stuff.



Both Malifaux ladies were so danged fiddly! No surprise considering Wyrd gets all their stuff done at the same Factory as Kingdom Death's plastics. Lady Justice in particular had some TINY pieces as well as connection points. TINY. I pray nobody looks at her funny and she falls into pieces.

I kind of want to get one of the metal versions of her now though...

Also completely unrelated to 1800s dressed ladyfolk, but I got this dude in the mail and started painting him.



He's a Runesmiter for the FyreSlayers from Age of Sigmar. Dudes just all brass and nekkid dwarf butt. (Un)fortunately I haven't had to paint anywhere near as many dwarf butts in Sigmar as I have from Confrontation.

Modest naked dwarfs?

I thought for a moment you were painting him up as a statue.

It saddens me that I won't be able to get any painting done while I'm house sitting, but we'll have to have a smackdown or two while you're free.

The dorf there does have skin. Just not the best photo, and it does blend in a bit with the bronze.

Hell, he basically is a statue anyway with all the bronze adornments and runes all over him.

An awesome collection of stuff coming along there. Almost enough to make me consider opening my SoB boxes. But not quite.