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And so, here I find myself after almost a year of inactivity.. This state of not being active is however only true for my blog and not for my miniature painting.

In these 12 months I’ve painted  8 heroes, 2 shadow dragons, 2 ettins, 2 Merriods, 6 goblin archers, 5 barghests, 5 flesh moulders,  5 spiders, 5 Zombies, 3 villians, 1 Cardinal, 1, skeleton warrior, 4 treasure hordes, 4 treasure chests, all for the table top board game Descent 2.0. from Fantasy Flight Games.

Then I moved onto Battlelore 2 Ed. From Fantasy Flight Games and painted 9 Cavalrymen, 9 Flesh Ripper Brutes, 6 Obscenes, 6 Stone Golems and 1 Roc Warrior.

And in between games I finished and submitted –to my wife- my first commission piece, a Shadow Dragon from Reaper Miniatures.. All of these mini’s I will be presenting here with some details about the mini and the painting process, along with some lessons learnt (and sometimes forgotten :)).

For the blog, there are other drastic changes as well.. I switched to English for starters.. mainly due to the fact that the “art” of miniature painting is almost non-existent in Turkey, so in order to be heard across the globe, this is a natural choice.. secondly I am more comfortable writing in English for various reasons..

So, as I keep planning a new lay out for my blog I shall introduce the first few hero figures I painted for Descent 2.0. You can find more info about Descent here.

The Heroes, from left to right, Leoric, Syndrael, Grisban, Avric

Avric (the Priest, far right) is the first figure I painted and thus I could not gather the courage to paint his eyes. I tried some shading and some highlighting but all in all it was indeed a rookie job :)

Then, these figures followed in succession. In each piece I tried something new, starting with the eyes for Grisban, (the Dwarf, second right) which turned out surprisingly well, even though it took me 20-25 trials and errors in all.

Syndrael (the Elf, second left) was a trial of painting armor.. and golden armor at that.. Painting gold is hard.. very hard as I had learnt.. also the cloak was an area for experimentation however all my attempts at layering failed miserably :)

Then I moved onto other heroines and finally to Leoric (the mage, -or the Necromancer as my friend decided to follow that path-, top left, below).

 

On Leoric I tried OSL (Object Source Lighting), where the light source is either on the miniature or some other place, but not the sun. In his case I imagined that the rune he is holding would be glowing.. However I had chosen a rather unfortunate color, that is red. Red, as I have learnt painfully is a VERY difficult color.. When you try to shade it, it turns to brown.. when you try to highlight it, it turns to orange… Thus I learnt the value of different colors that are sold. Now I have 6 reds, 3 oranges, 3 yellows.. etc.. all have their place..

The skeleton warrior is from Reaper Miniatures and is the reanimate of our Necromancer, Leoric. I painted it in an hour or so by drybrushing. I painted the shield bronze and put on some verdigris oxidation to make it look old and rusty..

And so.. our party of adventurers for a game of Descent was ready..

Next I will introduce the denizens of the Dark Overlord that our heroes set off to defeat in search of fame and fortune and everything that goes with it!