Scorched Earth

His mace glowing with immense thermal energy, he clanked across the desert. Alone, unafraid, and seeking to bring these southern curs into the familial embrace of The Union...or to demand eternal tribute from them on pain of death.
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    Getting home from work later and picking up Final Fantasy XIV with my friends has kept me away from painting and playing Dungeons and Dragons recently. Here's what I've completed since my last post!

    This miniature is High Exemplar Kreoss from the Warmachine tabletop wargame by Privateer Press. In my world he is an unnamed warrior bishop of The Union, the state religion of the Dûcatú de Méllècú. The Dûcatú is unique due to its proximity to the dwarves of the south and their good relations with these stocky smiths has provided them with many technological wonders unheard of amongst the other human nations. My parents recently visited and brought with them a bunch of my old miniatures that I had either painted (very sloppily) or never gotten around to. A whole bunch of Warmachine miniatures have now entered my backlog and I'm excited to paint them. While I don't really like the material that the models are made of I love the Iron Kingdoms aesthetic. I painted this miniature using standard acrylics then hit it with, you guessed it, an oil wash! I just really love the filter it applies to models and how easy they are to make and use. I wonder if oil paints have any other uses...

    After watching A LOT of  James Wappel and Marco Frisoni, I decided to try out paintinga miniature completely using oils. I dug up an old space marine that was included in the box of miniatures my parents brought with them and dove right in. I painted him using the master's touch oil color paint set and honestly, I really enjoyed it! Some things that I learned...

• I either need to let the spray primer really bond to my model before painting it with oils or explore priming via brush on. The reason I say this is because even a tiny amount of white spirits was wrecking havoc on my primer.
• Metallic oils are a really unimpressive paint. Maybe I'm not using them right but I think the next time I paint a miniature in oils, and I do plan to, I might attempt NMM.

    It's been a few weeks since our last DnD game but we're planning on playing this Thursday. During our sixth session the party was run out of the town of Pritzock at the behest of Kel Stiedmann and went off to find an elven refugee caravan where a sage who could heal the wounded rogue could be found. The party found the sage, who agreed to help their friend if they delved into an ancient elven shrine and cleanse it. So the party descended deep into an ancient elven shrine where they ended the session stumbling upon a nest of terrible lizard creatures made of stained glass! I'm excited to see what happens next.

Until next time!