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Twelfth, and final  of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch . The captain is tin the same colours as his  colleagues , but having recently invested in  the  foundry paint set he has slightly  difference  coloured cloak. I also managed to get the 2  other world  dogs done  this  month and was planning on a brief photo shoot today using natural light but the heavens have  opened so maybe next week

Eleventh   of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch  Only one more to do plus of course the obligatory group shot. Counting my fantasy adventurers the other day I realized I had nearly 100 painted so in theory I never need to paint another one as in all likelihood I will be using no  more than 10 at one time. The spear armed Merc has the same armour as the last one but this time for the flesh I have used the foundry 3 stage flesh triad that I picked up at salute and quite like this morning (I hated it last night).  I nearly missed the deadline this month despite having completed most of this figure a month or two ago. Overall this is only the second figure I have painted this month compared to 25 in January when I finished my Yanks. Hopefully my painting e...

Tenth  of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   My crossbow merc also has yellow as one colours. The armour was built up using Vallejo Field Blue. The other two merc will be also be sporting nifty blue cloaks. Although not featured some of my other otherworld figures should be making their first bid for fame in a game at SEEMS tomorrow using the SOBH rules. I will post up some pics. As an aside it is certainly making me realise that my figures look a bit better on the table top than they do with the glory of close up exposing all the flaws.

Ninth  of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   Continuing with my experiments in yellow I have a dwarf mercenary looking rather stern but hoping not to get his axe wet. One of only a few figures painted this month due to real life getting in the way.

Eighth  of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   This time it is the lantern bearer with my first attempt at some yellow for a while (more on next month effort). The only fantasy figure painted this month as I concentrated on finishing off my WW2 Yanks. With next month’s already in the bag I might actually finish all 12 in the given year.

Seventh of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   Old Citadel Giant Snail - Terrifying! Thanks to this  challenge I actually finished an otherworld figure. At the moment I am lagging behind on what I want to do, despite having nearly 2 weeks off. The squire started as a chore to get done but after breaking the back of the figure I eventually learnt to love him.Hopefully the next two in the challenge will be easier. Otherworld Evil Wizard My total figure count for 2015 is going to be 192 and has stuck to mainly to my main on going projects:- D&D Adventures 97 Darkest Africa     67 US WW2             22 Call of Cthulhu       6 Total                   192 Unfortunately  the distraction into WW2 prevented me finishing m...

Fifth of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   The miniature is the bearer, similar to the previous bearer that I had painted, I took a bit more time with the figure (but still limiting the time to less than an hour) and tried to limit my washes  My previous bearer from the Otherworld miniatures kickstartter. Base continues to be Deneb Stone.

F orth of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   The miniature is the scribe, reviewing the ritual from the ancient tomb won at some cost to the party. I have struggled to get anything done this month with only 2 figures painted and I did not think I would finish this on, although it could be argued he still needs a bit of work. Slightly different bases colour this month using Deneb Stone in my quest to get the colours light enough to show the figure up.

F orth of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch   The miniature is link boy, the valiant torchbearer leading the adventurers to reward or ruin. This time out I have varied my flesh mix using a Vallejo paints including medium flesh. The result is a much lighter flesh finish than I usually do. but one I quite like. The basket work was completed with a simple wash of GW agrax earth shade which I am conscious of using far too much

Third of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with Duke of the Blood Keep and Minis by Finch This time it's the turn of the poor donkey, carrying an excess of adventurer baggage. I have tried feathering the body of the donkey with the intention of showing up the texture of the hairs but I am uncertain how effective it is. Similarly with the white underbody, I am wondering if I have gone too far down the legs. As a bonus I painted the Cerepod (or Grell for the original Fiend Folio), the poor donkey is doomed. The Cerepod is painted in similar colours to the one on the otherworld site which having looked up its entry in the Fiend Folio are not strictly speaking authentic! In addition ahead of starting on my Drow and Driders I have test painted two old GW Demonettes. Clearly the grey one is the test paint (however stupidly I forgot to note which grey I started with), the pink one was to try out some new paints. I tried something ...

Second of the monthly posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with Duke of the Blood Keep and Minis by Finch   This time it's the turn of the animal handler, with a front and back shot. His only weapon appears to be the wooded stick so he better be lucky when delving.  Bit more care taken on the face this time out and hopefully it shows. 

The first of the monthly  posting of the other world Henchman in conjunction with  Duke of the Blood Keep  and  Minis by Finch Quite a simple paint job with the face not looking as good close up as the impression on the table,something to improve I feel.

Just a few more figures painted this year. Otherworld Demon Statue Otherworld Frost Giant Otherworld Water Weird

Just finished off the Otherworld giant ants. These figures are quite fragile (I snapped off one leg and an antenna) as they need the legs and antennas stuck on to the body which is not as hard as it looks, but requires some patience. The bases were a quandary, dungeon or out door. I eventually opted for outdoors with some rocks as I may also use these with may Darkest Africa stuff. Colour was quite simple, first I painted the underside GW Verrmin brown then a heavy wash of GW Agrax Nightshade. I then repeated the process for the top half. This left me with fully painted ants but to improve (hopefully) the look, I highlighted the top only with GW Vermin Brown followed by a lighter highlight of GW Vermin Brown mixed with white. Eye's are GW Regal blue with a highlight of Enchanted blue. Then add some flock and job done.

This is posted a lot later than originally intended. So far I have stuck reasonably to the plan raised in December with the following painted to end of March. 1              COC Byakhee 23           Darkest Africa – Mainly Masai 10           US WW2 Yanks – The remainder have base coats just need finishing. 29            DnD creatures include a couple of terrain pieces 63           Total No zombies but that is not a surprise, started to get distracted on a few side projects such as moderns (africa), and 1980's cold war gone hot, but to date I have resisted. To end of June I am aiming for more of the same with Masai and WW2 yanks mixed in with some fantasy stuff (Demon, slimes and jellies and Ants are ready to go with the bas...

A repost of  a challnege set up by Duke of the Blood Keep and Minis by Finch  which I intend on joining in. Both sites are excellent insperation for old school gaming and painting, and on with the repsot:- For those who don’t know about Minis by Finch , it’s an excellent site full of beautifully painted minis by a chap called Finch. We’ve both admired each others work for years and I thought it would be cool to do something together, so I came up with the Helping Hand Challenge. Our aim is to paint one miniature from Otherworld’s DAB 4 boxset a month starting in June 2014 and finishing in May 2015. However, we’d like to spread the love and open this challenge out to other bloggers too, so here are the rules: You must own the DAB4 Boxset You must own a blog You must paint one miniature a month in the order shown below You must post your results on the last day of each month You must include a link to each other participating blog That...

Some recent painting Otherworld Manticore Otherworld Shambling Mound And finally a Dungeons and Dragons collectors series resin Purple Worm, which I perfer to the Otherworld ones

Otherworld Hook Horror Somehow I have not posted any figure updates this year, despite my aim to post once a month. This year I have painted 53 figures but the volume has dropped off and only 1 this month so far due to real life getting in the way including plenty of work travel and a holiday in Turkey.. For this blog we have:- DnD 4 Troglodytes 8 Spiders 6 Adventurer 2 Skeleton 1 Citadel Lamia 1 Hook Horror 1 Storm Giant 1 Giant LIzard 2 Were rats 3 Otherworld adventurers Cthulhu 5 Cthulhu Creature 12 Cthulhu Adventurers On the darkest Africa front I have a very small amount:- 1 Gun Bearer 2 Masai 4 Maddhists So a few Otherworld adventurers and other pictures to make up for some missed. Otherworld Dwarf Mercenary   Otherworld Human Illusionist Otherworld Pack Pony Feeder  An old School Citadel Illusionist  Otherworld Werewolf  Otherworld WereBoar  Otherworld Wererat ...

Just a few pictures of my recent Otherworld stuff. This year I painted 42 fantasy figures out of 105 figures painted. Next years targets is 100 with the Otherworld Indiegogo adventures top of the pile.   Old school AD&D Red Dragon Painted around 25 years ago, and based this year. Otherworld Wight Otherworld Wight Otherworld Shadow  Otherworld Shadow Otherworld Troglodytes