Bison's Tales of Hobby Crafting

[Bison]

Thanks, gentlemen.

I started painting some future monsters for the campaign. A group of zombies and some giant spiders. I need to find a minotaur and a lich model. The lich can wait because the current campaign is beginning to take shape and the antagonist is Kras the Deceiver. Kras is a mage gone bad who has transformed into a lich over the ages. The minotaur is a more immediate concern because the party is traveling to investigate rumors of the Lost Library of Kras the Deceiver. I am building the library into a multiple-level maze of bookshelves and corridors. I will use the much-underutilized bookwork from Monster Manual 2 to lay waste to the collection of magical scrolls and books but want the main encounter to be with a minotaur. And because Kras is a lich, there will be a healthy dose of undead wandering the library to guard his prized scrolls and books all these many centuries later.

[Bison]

I opened a couple of the worst cast miniatures I have ever purchased last night. The mold was clearly not filled with resin. I still painted the ghouls and will use them at some point. However, the quality is a bit disappointing.

[Undercovergeek]

GW?

[Bison]

Wizkids. Most of the mini is fine but the thin casting is located on the legs where they connect to the base. It’s a flimsy model.

[Bison]

I somehow lost the makeup brush I bought to do dry brushing. It might be time to declutter the crafting table.

[bob48]

I used to like the GW brushes. I still have a few left including some un-used ones. The dry brushing brush I always found to be very good.

[Undercovergeek]

It’s all about cheap ass make up brushes now for dry brushing

[Bison]

Mine had a bamboo handle.  Bamboo!

[bob48]

Brush up-manship?

[Undercovergeek]

Mine had a bamboo handle.  Bamboo!

😂

That’s just fancy!!

[Bison]

I finished up 4 zombies, 2 ghouls, and 1 druid for the AD&D campaign. I need to work on the spiders. Of course, the legs are spaced out further than the base which may cause some gluing issues. I will try to post a photo later and if I get super motivated I just might try and figure out how to post them without the image being sideways,

[Bison]

I got sidetracked. A magic user for another one of the kids, a mimic, and a bunch of dungeon clutter (crates, barrels, bookshelves...). I need to prime most of the dungeon terrain pieces. This means I need to get the airbrush out which is good because I also have a couple dozen Hundred Years War knights that need to be primed and base painted silver. I really should start doing micro-reviews too. Several of the decorative pieces are cheap 3D printed pieces and others are from manufacturers like Reaper or Wizkids. I also have an MDF board cut to do some more terrain. Not sure if I want to make some more forest pieces or start on some swamp pieces...


And photos. I need to post some of them too.

[Bison]

A couple of photos of the minis I painted last week.

The zombies are very shiny. I think I must have used a gloss shade. I could put a matte finish on them but I am not sure I care too much. They look decent from an arm's length away. Besides zombies could be covered in gross slime from decomposition, I guess. Hard to see in the photo but the ghoul's legs are very, very thin. It makes the mini very flexible on the base and potentially prone to breaking.

The druid looks pretty nice but perhaps I should look at painting more details on faces. I do not really like painting eyes. It's a huge hassle to make look decent and the same is true of mouths. But again at arm's length, she looks really good.

[thecommandtent]

Those came out great!

[Tolstoi]

100% agree with Command Tent, those figures look very good.