Toog's Mods and Paints (12/19/2019)
Unpainted Miniatures
I haven't updated this thread in a while, so I'm gonna dump a lot of photos here at once:
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10/26/2019
10/6/2019
9/23/2019
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I've been painting away some of my unpainted pile, getting through a bit of the pile (though there is more stuff coming). It's hard to believe that I'm almost done painting the Reaper Bones 4 Kickstarter with only 4 more minis to go. I'm mainly holding off on them because they're big, need special bases and their gaps filled.
This mini is called Viridius and is made by reaper miniatures. It was super fun to paint up with inks by mixing green with black and yellow to get the different greens on the model. After that I did some drybrushing and washes to get even more detail out of him. He's going to go well with my other ancient dragons.
A Triceratops from the Bones kickstarter, again painted up with inks mostly.
Some Runewars stuff painted up with washes and the trees had some drybrushing as well.
An Efreet from the Pathfinder Battles line. I experimented with some new Vallejo metallic paints. They don't seem great for speed painting because you have to seal the mini after using them because the paints are hydrophobic, but they are very smoothly to apply.
A Dark Elf Queen Mini from reaper miniatures kickstarter.
A modded Tor-Kul-Na that I'll probably use for D&D, he'll make a great demon or other monster.
Speaking of demons this one is a Demonic Lasher (aka Demogorgon) from Reaper Miniatures. It's an older metal mini, but has lots of great detail which worked well with the contrast paints.
Some beholderkin from Nolzur's that I painted up with contrast and inks.
Some random adventurers/NPCs from reaper miniatures.
9/14/19
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In this past week I've had some fun painting with a mix of more traditional painting and some painting with inks/contrast paints.
Some demons/devils from Bones 4. All of these guys were painted traditionally and I had some fun with the wings on them.
A Nolzur's Fomorian giant. This one was done mainly with washes (with the exception of the gold on him).
A fire giant from bones 4 painted up traditionally. I do plan for him to be an addition to my fire giants faction eventually and have him be a beast master for some hellhounds.
Some Reaper cultist miniatures. Painted with contrasts and metallic.
Some polar bears from Deep Cuts. I first used contrast on them and then drybrushed them till they were mostly white.
A chaos warrior from reaper miniatures. Painted traditionally to match my other chaos warriors.
Random reaper figures. Done with contrasts and metallic. For the half orc I tried to get a greyish green skin-tone with multiple layers of contrast.
Some reaper figures and a guy from Wrath of Kings. The crabs first had an ink wash followed with layering up to the off-white color.
A cart from reaper miniatures. It's meant to go on a pig that I painted up a few weeks ago.
9/5/2019
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Quite a bit of progress this week (though after seeing some of the deals on Runewars on Amazon I gave in and bought quite a few of the boxes). It was a mix of painting traditionally and using contrasts.
I finished up the Alien Vs Predator miniatures game. With the aliens I basically based them in black and dry brushed blueish grey and gave it a black wash. Then I went over the heads in black and gloss sealer to give them the glossy effect. The marines used contrast paints first with a light green for the cloth and then covered the whole of them in grey to get the armor grey and the cloth greenish gray. For the Predator's skin I used yellow first and then covered it with brown washes until I liked the look.
Some Nolzur's Tabaxi Rogues that I painted up with contrast paints to go with my older ones.
Some more nolzur's miniatures. The Yuan-Ti were painted with contrast paints and I used contrast paints on the bases of the Spectres of Aldorn (currently in the SoV) to make it so they're not floating on white blobs.
Some Hill Giants that I painted up the more traditional way. The primer I got recently didn't react too well with the primer I recently got. It's probably because it was slightly different from the usual Krylon stuff I get because this one was for Indoor and Outdoor, so it probably is meant to be water repellant.
Some random monsters I painted up with contrast paints. I'll be using the card from the Northwest Heroscape Custom's Gnoll Faction for the one Gnoll in this set. I've played with the faction a few times and they're super fun.
8/28/2019
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I did quite a few more figures the past few days. I managed to finish some more Reaper stuff as well as some CMON stuff.
This guy is Mossbeard from Reaper miniatures. With this guy I experimented with basing and adding plants and moss to him. For the base I used air drying clay to get an uneven texture to the base as well as places for putting the larger plants (which I got on clearance from Michael's) I painted the base black and then green before flocking the base and adding moss and putting the plants back into their corresponding places.
Some large Reaper miniatures, including a Djinn, a large beetle, a giant catfish, a enlarged duergar and a rat ogre.
Some Nolzur's/ Deepcuts minis I painted up. There's a Grim Reaper, two Tortle adventurers, and a Bulette.
Some pre-painted pathfinder minis I touched up by giving them a wash and going over parts that were unpainted.
Quite a few different minis here, two from Wrath of Kings, two from Rum & Bones and one from Sword & Sorcery.
Some Wrath of Kings, House Hadross figures that I painted up similar to the jellyfish men from last time.
The last bit of crew from Rum and Bones that I painted up.
8/18/2019
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I managed to get quite a bit done this week, with most of the minis having an ocean theme to them.
A bunch of Rum and Bones grunts I painted up with contrast paints. I tried to switch up the colors a bit so that they could be differentiated a bit during play.
Some figures from the House Hadross faction of the Wrath of Kings game. My first time using texture paints for basing which has been fun to experiment with.
Some sword and sorcery dragon men I painted up in different colors.
A rowboat from reaper miniatures, a very nice looking boat for terrain use.
A mix of some reaper and Rum and Bones minis, to be used as pirate and privateer leaders.
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8/13/2019
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I've recently bought a bunch of stuff, so I'm working through that stuff right now. I'm mainly doing stuff with washes right now because I left my wet palette closed for a week causing it to grow mold. I've been drying it out and eventually will have to clean it out.
This is King Cobra from reaper minis. I painted up this guy with washes and I liked how he turned out.
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These are some minis/statues that I found, but I have no idea who made them.
A Portal from Reaper miniatures that I painted up. It was a bit of a challenge to keep the purple magic effects clean from stray paints.
Some Large Reaper miniatures including a minotaur, a half-ogre, and a female devil. I had to use some green stuff on the devil to make her more safe for work.
Pit Fiend from Reaper Minis Bones 4 Kickstarter. I modded it by magnetizing him with so he could use all of his heads and hands, as well as adding armor to him with bits from my chaos warriors I didn't use.
10 Witch Aelves I painted up, I still have to build and paint 20 more of them.
Some heroquest Orcs and a goblin I found for $1 each (because most of them had their weapons chopped off).
Mummy from Reaper Miniatures that I also found in a $1 bin for some reason.
A half dragon from Sword and Sorcery I painted up. I'm going to try and paint them up to all be from different chromatic dragons.
Some Rum and Bones minis I got on sale from Miniature Market on sale. I definitely use them for D&D stuff.
8/4/2019
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It's been a while because I've been busy travelling around, so much so that I haven't been able to paint for a while, but I did take some pics I didn't post before I left. I've also recently got a lot of stuff from Miniature Market, more than doubling the amount of models I need to paint.
A warhammer dark elf sorceress to be used as a hag queen. I used this one as a test model for the witch elves I've been painting by using contrast paints as a basecoat and then layering up with normal paint. I've done a set of 10 elves with this method and they turned out nicely. Also, a reaper figure that i painted up with some contrast paints based on some art of some Cthulu mythos art work of Hastur that I liked.
Some Nolzur's mimcs I painted up to go with my bed mimic.
A mix of reaper and nolzur miniatures. Some are out of focus so i'll take pics of them later. Contrast paints are helpful for speed painting as I was able to get the halfing in the center ready to play in a d&d session in the same night, while only takeing around 30 min (including priming and sealing).
Some more figs from guildball that I painted up. They make good villagers for d&d and have nice detail.
Some reaper hellhounds I painted up with inks making an interesting lava effect by going back and making the cracks white so I could use inks to make the lava.
Some big monsters I painted up. The ettin was an experiment with the contrast flesh tones and I like how it turned out. The Crab monster was my attempt at getting an orange out of my reddish and yellowish brown inks, and I liked the color I got. The next one is a reaper mini that I'll probably use as a marro custom eventually. The last one is a red slaad that i painted up with contrast paints experimenting with the blending between the colors.
Some terrain I painted up mostly with washes. I tried a lot of mixing of the ink washes with each other to get darker tones as well as different oranges and browns.
7/14/19
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So far I've been trying out the contrast paints some more, and have been testing out the blending and different colors. I also tried to sort of replicate the contrast paint with inks, matte medium, flow aid, and gloss medium/varnish, which ended up fairly successful (the main example is the mage knight black dragon I painted up). I got the idea from Goobertown Hobbies from YouTube, and I'm probably going to start investing in more inks than the contrast paints now.
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Some Reaper Miniature Adventurers painted mostly with contrast paint
A Reaper Xorn and Roper
A Reaper Overlord Cavalry (painted with contrast to be in a sort of NMM style) and a Nolzur Troll.
Some Raptors from Reaper that I painted with contrast paints and blended between two different contrast colors.
Mumlak from reaper that I painted with almost only contrast paints and ink washes.
Reaper Griffin made with contrast paints.
Giant Apes from Reaper.
Morathi touched up some more with some patterns to the snake scales.
A Mage Knight Dragon that I ended up repainting.
A Reaper frost giant.
Some Devils/Demons from Reaper.
A Reaper Wyvern.
A reaper Bed Mimic.
A reaper Owlbear.
A reaper troll.
Some Various animals.
A reaper "beholder".
A reaper Umber Hulk.
A horned slasher and crocodile from reaper miniatures.
Some Guild Ball Farmers Guild Miniatures.
6/25/2019
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I've made a lot of progress this past month, with quite significant progress with the Bones 4 Kickstarter Figures. Also, I've been testing out the new Citadel Contrast Paint, which I've been using to speed-paint some of the Kickstarter figures. It's quite a large update so I put it inside of a spoiler.
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Some Yaun-Ti/Vipers
Dog and Mummy
Adventurers
Penguins
Cavemen
Knights
Sauroids
Nolzur's Cloud Giant
Frost Giant Hunter
Horror Monsters
Fungus People
Tidal Lurker
Winter Dire Wolf
Stone Giants
Adventurers
Townsfolk
Hobgoblins
Skeleton Ogre
Huge Spider
Adventurers
Duergar
Cavalry
Ogre
Goblins
Bloodstone Gnomes
Gnomes
Kobolds
Goblins
Elves
Wizard
Adventurers
Displacer Beast
Adult Blue Dragon
Warhammer stuff:
Modded Skaven
Cauldron of Blood/ Bloodwrack Shrine
Morathi (elf and monster form)
5/24/2019
5/11/2019
4/30/2019
4/16/2019
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Haven't updated this thread in a while, so here's the progress I've made in the past month or so.
This one is Xanathar, from Gale Force 9's D&D Collector's series. The resin it was made out of was pretty janky with lots of mold lines and gaps, which I wasn't able to fully get rid of.
This is the last big mini from reaper I had to paint, and I like how the terrasque turned out.
This is Reaper's new Fire Giant Queen, which I ended up painting to match my previous one.
A dark young miniature from Reaper miniatures, which I had fun painting up.
This is an angel figure from Reaper Miniatures that I tried to paint up with some OSL, probably should have pushed the contrast more, but I still like how it turned out.
I bought a starter army box for Wrath of Kings from CMON, which I picked up for a good discount. I also found a way to use some scenic bases I had, which weren't being used.
3/9/19
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I recently got some more unpainted minis while waiting for the Reaper Bones 4 Kickstarter to fulfill which should be around the end of March or April depending on shipping.
I finished off the Uthuk Runewars Miniatures army box that I bought. I followed the previous paint jobs that I did on the squads and followed the same schemes for the heroes, making one more marro-ish.
This ones another mod based off of the NHWC's Tu-Rok-Sa. I played against him in the most recent tournament I went to and ended up using a spare Ne-Gok-Sa to make him.
I painted up some Human rogue's from the wizkids miniature line to make a unique squad.
This one is a spell effect for D&D that comes from the wizkids line that I painted up.
I had an extra Kurrok that was pretty badly damaged (missing a foot with the other soon to fall of) so I fixed him up by replacing his boot and giving him a new base.
This guy is T'Raukzul made by Reaper miniatures that I painted up. He makes for a very nice option for a gargantuan sized dragon that's a little larger than the white dragon (from the WotC D&D line) in my profile pic.
3/4/2019
2/13/2019
2/2/2019
1/11/2019
1/3/2019
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I was out of the house this past week and not able to paint, but I got back and here is my progress that I did before my trip.
I finished up Kaladrax from Reaper Miniatures. This guy was one of the last preproduction ones that Reaper still had available. He was pretty simple to paint up with 3 main colors one for the bones, the rot/skin and the horns and spikes.
This was Gunslinger by reaper miniatures. It's a metal miniature that makes an interesting kyrie miniature.
These were two free reaper minis I got for my order that I painted up. I tried to make their color schemes different and I really like the blueish steel of the one on the right that I made by mixing metallic and dark blue paint.
This one is another bugbear miniature from reaper that is a metal mini that I picked up and painted.
These two are Christmas witches from reaper miniatures that I painted up going with different colors. They're both metal minis.
This is another metal reaper mini that I painted up. It's a mindflayer pirate which I found to be an interesting concept.
Another metal reaper mini that I painted up. The plastic version will come out eventually as part of bones 4, but I didn't put in the add on she's in so I won't have to wait for over a year for it to come out in plastic.
A reaper skeleton archer that I painted up from their learn to paint kit.
Another reaper metal mini that I got and painted up.
2018
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12/20/18
12/12/2018
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I was able to make some more progress in my painting as well as finally finishing up the shades of Bleakewoode I made copies of.
These were the shades I made finally painted up. I think the one on the left turned out the best, the middle one had a muddied up face and the right one had a bunch of flash.
This one is a Reaper miniatures hobgoblin.
I picked up some more minis of a cat and a tiny hippo. I don't know what line their from because I got them loose from my FLGS.
This mini is the Owlbear from the Nolzur's paint set that I got. I like how he ended up and currently he's my favorite owlbear mini I have.
This one is the Bathalian Primarch from Reaper miniatures that I used to try my new paints from the paint set I got.
These were the last two Relic Knights miniatures that I needed to paint up. To paint the green I used Game Workshops HexWraith Flame paint (which is sort of a wash). I ended up knocking over the pot and lost like 2/3 of the paint. At least it wasn't on any carpet and didn't get on my clothes.
These guys are some miniatures from the Runewars miniatures game that I painted up.
This miniature is the Gargantuan Red Dragon from Wizkid's unpainted pathfinder miniature line. He was pretty easy and fun to paint up, the main issue I had was reaching some spots under his spikes and wings.
12/3/2018
11/18/2018
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This past two weeks I've been working on a couple of mini's I had before as well as buying some new ones.
These were the tharn ravagers that I fixed up finally painted, some look better than others, but it's good that they have all there parts back.
I bought a bunch of Myconids from the Nolzur's miniature line, and speed painted them up today which is why they look a little wet due to the drying sealant.
I found this guy in the miscellaneous miniatures bin and really liked the idea of a pirate dog. I have no idea what line it is from or what miniature it is though.
This was another figure in the miscellaneous miniature bin that I painted up. I think it is either a hordes or warmachine model, but I'm not sure. I wanted to practice painting yellow, and it was a fun mini to paint.
I got two more reaper bones deep ones painted up to match with my previous two, and was able to color match them pretty well.
These are some reaper bones hobgoblins that I painted up. I wanted to go with a more red skin tone as compared to Kurrok's brown skin tone, because I prefer the color.
11/4/2018
10/28/2018
10/18/2018
10/13/2018
9/23/18
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This week I painted some more Soda Pop Miniatures, and also started to use some molds and resin and experiment with them.
This mini is Lug from soda pop miniatures' Relic Knights game that I painted up in Omnicron colors.
This one is Mr Tomn from Relic Knights.
This one is Lakmi from Relic Knights.
These are Suspect 7 from Relic Knights that I painted up Twilight Clan Ninjas
These ones are Pit Crew from Relic Knights that I painted up.
I started experimenting with some molds and resin to make a replacement head and a shade of bleakewoode. With the Shade of Bleakewoode the resin dried before I could fill the mold, but it did end up giving him a neat whispy effect, but next time I should be able to fill the mold and make shades from my three molds.
9/16/18
9/5/2018
8/24/2018
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This week is a smaller update because I was busy finishing up my internship and getting ready to move back to college. I ended up painting the rest of my Runewars miniatures and a Night Hag for D&D as well as magnetizing two flying saucers from the Mars Attacks Miniatures line and a Carnasaur/Troglodon for Age of Sigmar. This currently leaves me with 12 miniatures that I still need to paint, but I'm probably going to buy more this weekend.
This was a Invisible Night Hag from the D&D miniatures line from Wizkids. I opted to get the Invisible one instead of the prepainted one because it was $3 instead of $15.
These are the 12 Daqan Knights that I painted up from the Runewars Miniature Game. They were interesting to paint up, and were my last set of cavalry figures I needed to paint up.
8/18/2018
8/11/2018
8/5/2018
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This week I painted a few more figures bringing me down to around 36 more that I need to paint.
This week I painted 8 Saurus Cavalry from Age of Sigmar, leaving only 1 more model from my Start Collecting set that I still need to build and paint.
This guy is a Dragon Tortoise from Reaper Miniatures.
This is a Balor made by Reaper Miniatures that I ended up painting as a Balrog. I tried to do a little object source lighting from the fire on him, but I think I could have increased the brightness of the OSL, but I still like how he turned out.
This one is a Behir from Reaper miniatures. Unfortunately, He doesn't fit on any sort of Heroscape base so I based him on one of my leftover huge D&D bases.
This is a Storm Giant from Pathfinder Battles that I painted up to match the Storm Giants of older D&D.
This guy is a Fire Giant Dreadnought from the Monster Menagerie 3 set of D&D miniatures that I painted up to match Shurrak and my other giants. Originally he had a greyish blue skin tone.
7/29/2018
7/13/2018
7/7/2018
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This week I worked on a few of the larger figures I had laying around that were unpainted.
This guy is the Frost Giant King by Reaper miniatures. He's a pretty cool mini that fits in well with the Frost Giants of Morh (as well as all my other frost giants).
This guy is a Balor from the Legend of Drizzt Board game. He was my last mini from the D&D Board game minis that I had to paint. I ended up painting him gray to keep him different from the pre painted Balor that I have that has the same sculpt.
This is an Ice Wyrm by Reaper miniatures. This guy was really fun to paint because of how much texture the model had which allowed for lots of nice dry brushing and washes.
The is a Spirit of the Forest made by Reaper miniatures. I ended up gluing on shrubs to his head branches to add some detail.
These are the finished Daqan Infantry from the Runewars Miniatures game, that I showed the WIP of last week.
This is a Faceless Horror (aka a Gibbering Mouther) made by Reaper miniatures. It was a lot of practice for eyes and teeth.
6/1/2018
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This week I was able to make a fair amount of progress on my unpainted minis bringing down my count to 81 unpainted figures.
This guy is a Troll by Reaper miniatures. I painted him up to go with the Marsh Trolls in my Customs thread.
This guy is a Reaper Frost giant that I painted up to match my other frost giants. I really like painting the blueish white skin tone.
This is a Jabberwock from reaper miniatures. This mini tends to have leaning problems, so I had to glue his foot on a rock.
This guy is Golan, Hill Giant by Reaper miniatures. I was able to practice skin tone with the large surface areas, as well as blending in pimples and wounds. The base that I has was sort of messed up so I ended up flocking it and adding some scenery.
These are a set of Tharn Bloodletters by Privateer Press for their Hordes game. I really like some of the Tharn models and their barbaric elf look.
This is a group of 24 Daqan Infantry from the Runewars Miniatures Game from Fantasy Flight Games. In the picture they are still drying after using a black wash to enhance the details in the sculpt. I like to mount medium figures on paint bottles with sticky tack so I can hold them without messing up the paint.
6/24/18
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This week I mainly painted some Reaper minis that I bought recently, but was able whittle down the number of figures I need to paint a little bit.
This guy is the newer Fire giant king (the old one would be a large this one is huge sized) by Reaper miniatures. I'm trying to work through a lot of my larger Reaper miniatures which is going well so far.
This guy is a Dragonborn (with some weird name) from reaper miniatures. He's pretty bulky (around medium 6). I tried to highlight the scales individually (usually I would just drybrush) and I think it turned out okay.
This one is a Female Oni from Reaper miniatures who is also around a medium 6 in size. She was pretty fun to paint, I liked the red skin tone ( I tend to use it for most of my Tiefling figures)
These are the Aasimar Clerics from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures (the unpainted D&D line) that I painted up as Aquillan Kyrie. These are the only two that I have, but eventually I want to get a couple more for a common squad. A warning about painting these guys, the one on the right has the magic effects glued in which blocks most of the figure. I had to break it and re-glue it to paint the figure, otherwise the angles would be near impossible.
I got 2 more Clanwars miniatures painted. I tried to paint them as Kozuke samurai, and eventually I want to get some Samurai Horsemen to make a squad of Samurai Horsemen with a Kozuke color scheme.
This one is a mummy lich by Reaper Miniatures. The thing that I found most challenging with painting this guy was trying to keep his cloak, sand and skull distinct, but still sandy looking.
This one is another reaper mini called Troll Slayer Sophie. She was pretty fun to paint up as a kyrie. I ended up painting her with a lighter Caucasian skin tone because I wanted to practice that skin tone a bit. I tend to start off with a light brown base color for skin color and then highlight, but This time I used more of a pinkish color as a base coat and worked up from there.
6/16/18
6/8/2018
6/2/2018
6/1/2018
5/28/18
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This one is a Reaper miniature, I really liked the pose of this one in particular, and it was my first time decorating a base with flocking materials.
This guy was from the Wrath of Ashardalon D&D Board Game. I've painted almost every figure from that set as well as the Castle Ravenloft and Legend of Drizzt sets, with most of the figures being very fun to paint. I decided to paint this guy as a Genasi because I thought his hair sorta conveyed an elemental feel.
These are the skeletons from the Runewars Miniature Game I finished painting on Saturday (I painted a total of 16 of these guys). I really like the sorta cartoony feel of the figures from Runewars and like how they fit in with 'Scape figures. I got the core set and a few other boxes from Fun Again games for about half of retail, and I'm looking to get the Elf army box eventually so that I can have a set of elves riding lions.
I'll probably update this thread from time to time with new figures that I've painted as well as some of my older ones that turned out well.
Last edited by Toogwick_tuk; December 19th, 2019 at 07:05 PM.
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