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What Minis Are You Painting?
Now when I started this project, the justification was that the factions are too hard to tell apart as they are unpainted. So, if I was going to paint them, the most important thing was that a person should be able to tell which faction the piece belongs to by just glancing at the board.
With that in mind I have tried to make the assigned faction colors as given by the rule book be prominent on the minis. Thus the dwarves have a lot of brown, the elves light green etc.
Well, Sauruman's faction color is, for some strange reason, yellow. I originally painted the non-elites with yellow bases and yellow shields...and it looked repulsive. The yellow in contrast with the green orcs and silver armor was horrible. Not to even go into how yellow and white are the two worst colors for large areas. They just don't coat well and the base color bleeds through. I blame the war on lead but that's another rant for another day.
So, I decided to give them a new faction color but it had to be a strong enough color to cover that damn yellow. So...black it is.
For what it's worth, Orthanc's color should be white..the white hand and all...but that would have looked no better than the yellow I think.
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The fellowship is done, two of the three minions of Sauron are done. Only Sauruman remains. Had to repaint his robes. But soon...soon...all will be done and my goal of finishing before ConnCon will have been met!
Huzzah!
Thus I give you Mithrandir...
"I am Gandalf and 'Gandalf' means me!"
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Hot seat....you feel it too? I'll go get the thinner and a bucket. Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

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This year my buddy and I decided to bring back from the dead the painting challenge. He's made some plans to come into town for a weekend of gaming over Labor Day Weekend which is our target date. My part of the challenge this year is to paint up Dreadfleet and we're setting out with the goal of playing through all the scenarios over the course of the weekend.
Here are the results of my first few nights schlopping some paint before dinner. These are Works in Progress and still needed detail on the water/waves and the ship wreckage. I've been very pleased with the results. With a bit of luck I hope to have the scenery painted by the end of this month as a warm up to the ships.
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But it is a freaking awesome model... very iconic.
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Sevej wrote: Finally finished most of the work on Descent 2nd Edition. This is base game plus one big expansion. Still have to do the basing.
Very cool, do you happen to have a higher-res version of that photo? I would love to see more of the details.
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scrumpyjack wrote:
Sevej wrote: Finally finished most of the work on Descent 2nd Edition. This is base game plus one big expansion. Still have to do the basing.
Very cool, do you happen to have a higher-res version of that photo? I would love to see more of the details.
Well, here's a no-flash, big version. But don't expect much, it's all blurry

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34559052/P1050583.JPG
The flash version is a little better.
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34559052/P1050584.JPG
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