From the Wizards box set, I envisioned this guy as a court wizard, rather than an adventuring wizard. His staff has a skull on the top end, and I couldn’t resist adding a cobra, a-la Jafar, coming out of the eye socket. The robes fade from purple to orange, top to bottom.
This medusa is from the Monsters box set. The snake hair is pretty small and difficult to see that they’re snakes…
This awesome little guy is from the box set “Encounter at Blood Valley.” Grenadier put out several box sets that I think had mini adventures included in them, each titled “Encounter at…” that showcased the minis in the set. This set, which is part of the Seesholtz collection, didn’t come with the adventure, if there was one.
I went full-on sabre-tooth tiger, and I’m really happy with it.
Part of the Seesholtz collection, this is an Efreet (incorrectly called “Efreeti,” which is plural of Efreet.)
Since Efreeti are much larger than humans, I put him on a large base. I used Vallejo White Stone paste to try to texture the base. I discovered, by accident, that using a small putty knife, I could make a spikey texture that would look like flame. So I ran with that. I think maybe I painted the pool of flame incorrectly though; I made the flame tips bright and the pool dark. I think flame is brighter closer to the fuel source, and gets darker and smokier farther away. Oh well.
I’m also a little frustrated with the OSL (Object Source Lighting), which I don’t think I pulled off very well.
This guy is kind of special. He came with a hand (a la Bigby’s Crushing Hand and its variants) and a monster head (a la Monster Summoning family of spells) that could be swapped in and out of the cloud above the archmage’s head. He comes from the Wizards box set.
This poor guy has been saddled into carrying another poor guy off the battlefield. Something must have gone wrong with this adventure…
I painted this bard for one of the kids in my Kids’ D&D game. He is from the Grenadier Explorers large box set.
This is the little halfling hireling from the Grenadier Hirelings box set. For no particular reason, I gave him a blue torch flame. Maybe he’s the canary in the coalmine…
These are the first 4 minis from the Grenadier’s Hirelings box set. There are 9 minis in the set, but one of them is a sculpt of two people carrying a large chest, so I guess that’s why they felt they could get away with only 9 minis instead of the usual 10 in the box. These are the unsung heroes of any D&D game; the poor suckers that get hired by adventurers to carry their loot and look after their horses for a pittance of coins and a healthy dose of certain death. I imagine that the weapons and armor they have are mostly junk that they picked up from monsters that the adventurers slew.
The first is the “Pack Bearer,” and is the first mini I’ve painted with a definite “African American” skintone.
The second is labeled “/W Coin Chest” on the box set insert.
The third is labeled “W/ Jewel Box” on the box set insert.
The fourth is labeled “Spiking” on the box set insert.
This is a sorcerer from Grenadier’s Wizards box set. I tried to paint the crystal ball as though it is reflecting the sky (top half) and earth (bottom half). It was also another experiment in painting white.
