I had a play test of a single dungeon crawl with two characters, myself and my wife, to see how the game played - prior to this I had watched Inside the Box's Video Review on the game which prompted me to buy it, but after that single game with the wife I was hooked.Review - EVGA 2080 Super Black Gaming 8GB Video Card When I bought Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death I was intending it to be our dungeon crawl game for Games Nights, I still had Warhammer Quest at this time but found that Shadows of Brimstone not only did it capture the feel and fun of WHQ, but was updated with better rules, and most importantly, available content. The miniatures look terrible in their incompleted paint job and I found that so demoralising that sometimes I've given up painting long before I have picked up a brush.Īnd as I said, it is exhausting, I find it difficult to sit for long periods of time and try to keep my hands steady, so I don't really enjoy my time. The finishes were nice and I am proud of my paint job, but it was oh so exhausting to paint like that. Well I followed Games Workshops painting video with Duncan Rhodes and step by step (base, shade, layer, highlight etc) I painted my first Death Guard Miniature - The Lord of Contagion.Ī year or so later I painted up a single squad of Death Guard, a couple of vehicles, and Typhus the herald of plagues. When I decided to get back into Warhammer 40k with Eighth Edition, I was planning on getting all my minis painted again, for that joy of having fully painted armies once more. Well I managed one miniature decently and then stalled for a few years. Then I lost motivation, like painting up ranks and ranks of infantry for Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles (6th Edition) who were little more than wound counters really killed my interest and for about 15 years I stopped painting.Ībout 10 years ago when I was in my early 30s I bought Super Dungeon Explore and a set of Vallejo paints (Prussians I think) with the goal of getting my game painted up nicely. I still never really learned to thin my paints though. Though now I had proper paints and brushes, I slathered the paint on thickly trying to get a solid color and often clogged details.īut I was able to get some armies fully painted this way.Īnd over the next 7 years, I would improve and had both decently painted figures and completely painted armies. My painting of miniatures back then was still pretty haphazard. In fact here are my two original White Dwarves, I still have 'em! It was not until a handful of years later when I delve into Epic Space Marine and Warhammer 40,000 (Second Edition) as my core tabletop games that I really developed an interest in painting, no small fact due to White Dwarf Magazine. Having no proper tools and using craft store tube paints, I haphazardly attempted to paint my miniatures using cotton earbuds and an old toothbrush. I was introduced to miniatures at a young age, around 12, when I first got my copy of HeroQuest.Ī friend shortly after that time gave me some lead minis they had acquired as a going-away present. I am hoping to change that, towards the end of the blog you will see why.īut I would like to talk to you about my approaches to painting miniatures that I have done. They contribute piles and piles of miniatures to my collection of Grey Shame, for I have so very little actually painted. What do these all have in common, aside from having miniatures? I also have some dedicated miniatures games, Warhammer 40,000 (Eighth Edition), Warpath Firefight, Carnevale: Vicious Fighting Along the Canals of Venice for example. Most of my miniatures are from various board games that come with almost an excess, like Massive Darkness, Oh god Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape when I get it, Conan, Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death minecart just to name a few.
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