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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 ...