domenica 17 marzo 2024

Alexander and Macedonian companion cavalry

 Something different this week. As you can imagine, this project took some time to complete, it consists of 20 Macedonian companion cavalry led by non other that Alexander the Great.

Models are from Wargames Foundry, beautiful sculpts by the Mark Copplestone and others.






Macedonian cavalry led by Alexander the Great. 28mm, Wargames Foundry, full highlights


domenica 10 marzo 2024

More RPG figures

 This week we have a few more RPG figures, I'm slowly moving on with the Reaper Bones V set to add pieces for our D&D campaigns.

So far I used a simple wash and drybrush style, but moving forward most figures will be done with Army Painter QuickShade, I have too many and it would take too long if I didn't use the dipping method.



Assembling the set I found out that the cockatrices I did q while back also had a small nest, so I painted it to match the figures I had painted earlier. 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush


Glass and stone golems. 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush 



A pair of adventuring wizards (these are PCs in my campaign). 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush



Yuan-Ti. 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush


Wall of stone spell effect. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush


domenica 3 marzo 2024

Celestial dragon

 This is a big Reaper Bones celestial/oriental dragon, it will be a crucial NPC and mentor in my current D&D campaign that will see quite a bit of action in Kara-Tur, the Asian setting of  AD&D.

I went for a limited palette of colours, I didn't want to make it too "messy" and keep the painting fast.

It is a very nice model and I really enjoyed painting it.




Celestial dragon. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush and washes


sabato 24 febbraio 2024

Samurai time

 The D&D campaign I'm playing with my group is currently undergoing some pretty intense developments, the party is about to acquire a Spelljammer vessel and it will soon reach Kara-Tur, in my setting not a part of the Forgotten Realms.

For this reason I started painting Japanese themed figures from the big Reaper Bones set that Max acquired a while ago.

These are the first completed, plus some quick clear spell effects, these last only require the base to be painted, so they are a quite minimal job.




Undead (ghostly) samurai, mounted and on foot. 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush


Japanese road shrines. 28mm, Reaper Bones, washes and drybrush


Spell effects: Tenser's floating disc, unseen servant, ghostly sword and various grasps and push spells. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush





domenica 18 febbraio 2024

One more dragon

 This is another dragon I painted for one of my D&D players.

The idea is, at some point, to have enough metallic and chromatic dragons for the AD&D adventure "Dragon keep", which should be the conclusion of my current campaign, I figure I still have a couple of years to complete all I need, I should be able to make it.



Copper dragon. 28mm Reaper bones, washes and drybrush


domenica 11 febbraio 2024

RPG monsters

 This week I have two fairly large Reaper Bones monsters for fantasy RPG.

The dragon will feature at the end of my current D&D campaign (if we ever get there), the other reminds me a lot of a monster in the first Rifts conversion book, a winged wolf.


Winged Demon Wolf. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush

The art in the Rifts conversion book



Adult blue dragon. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush



domenica 4 febbraio 2024

Demogorgon

 This is a quite large model I painted for Max.

In our old D&D campaign, his wizard had been "kidnapped" by this demon lord and used as a means to gain access to the prime material plane opening a portal for lesser demons to pour through.

It is about 2 years late, but he is painted.



Demogorgon. 28mm, Reaper Bones, drybrush