Super Dungeon Explore

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Celestial Herald

I painted the Celestial Herald with bird-of-prey style wing colouration as I hadn’t seen it done before.

Celestial Herald

This is the first shot taken with my brand-new proper camera. I’m still working out the settings. Can you tell the difference? I think the colours are better.

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Shallow Graves

Here are the Shallow Grave spawn points from which the skeletons can ambush unsuspecting heroes. Like the rest of my Super Dungeon Explore stuff, I am trying to keep them quick and simple.

Shallow Grave

Also, I have some good news: I’m finally investing in a proper camera. All this time I have been using my smartphone,  so hopefully we’ll see a significant improvement in picture quality. *fingers crossed!*

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Bone Heads, Dread Knights and Rattlebones

I’ve started painting up the Von Drakk set. I wanted the skeletons to look very old with rusted armour and rough bone so I mostly drybrushed them. This had the added benefit of making them super fast to paint! Here are the Bone Heads.

Bone Head

I base-coated the armour with dark brown and then stippled on a lighter redder brown. Finally I finished them up with a quick drybrush of silver. Here are the Dread Knights.

Dread Knight

To paint the bone I simply base-coated with bone, washed with brown and then drybrushed with bone. Using fast painting techniques really helps when you have twelve Rattlebone creeps.

Rattlebone

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Nyan-Nyan

Nyan-Nyan was actually my first attempt at a chibi face. I wasn’t happy with the eyes and, after talking it over with some of the guys on the Soda Pop forums, I decided to repaint her eyes and give her a kitty nose.

Nyan-Nyan

I wanted my Freyjans (the cat people) to be more cat-like than their original colour schemes. I think that the nose really helps with that. Now she’s super cute!

Nyan-Nyan

I realise now how important the eyes are for chibi-style miniatures. Even more so than regular minis!

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Thundervale Huntress, Questing Knight and Survivor Marie-Claude

It’s time for some heroes! Lets start with the Thundervale Huntress.

Thundervale Huntress

I tried to match her markings to the artwork in the book instead of her card.

Thundervale Huntress

And here’s the Questing Knight in an alternative colour scheme.

Questing Knight

Finally here’s Survivor Marie-Claude. I thought her sculpted eyes were a little too large (even for the chibi style) so I tried to offset that by giving her a slighter thicker outline around the eye than I usually do. Meaning I left the black line around the whites of her eyes within the sculpted edge. I’ll do a little guide on this later. I like how her eyes and stocking turned out.

Survivor Marie Claude

If you were wondering about Marie-Claude’s sculpt, it’s based on Marie-Claude Bourbonnais, a cosplayer associated with Soda Pop Miniatures.

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Old Growth Hollow, Wisps and Turnipheads

I really enjoyed painting the Kodama plant baddies in the Forgotten King set. After basecoating and washing them, I drybrushed on the highlights and then blended the colour in from the leaf tips. They were very quick to paint this way.

Lets start with the Turnipheads. I had fun trying to match the colours to the artwork on the model cards. The leaf tip colour is a mix of flesh and pink.

Turniphead

Here are the Wisps, aren’t they adorably cute?

Wisp

And finally the spawning point that they appear from: the Old Growth Hollow.

Old Growth Hollow

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Burnout and Super Dungeon Explore

Semi-regularly I have problems with burnout. I’m sure most of the painters out there have experienced it at some point. Perhaps it’s all the end-of-year stress that gets to me, I don’t know. What I do know is that the hobby that I enjoy and usually find relaxing suddenly fills me with dread. I almost feel like I have painters bipolar: I either love it to the point of obsession or I hate it.

Over the years I’ve learned not to force it. If I give it some time, then the love for my hobby will come back. In the meantime I have the holidays to look forward to. Hubby and I are going to do a couple of weeks around Australia. We wanted to bring a game with us, but wargames aren’t so easy to play in a hotel room, so we looked for a board game instead. Hubby fell in love with Super Dungeon Explore for it’s old arcade-style and I love the chibi miniatures. They’ve kickstarted my love of painting again and while I’m not motivated to get back into my Warmahordes stuff just yet, I will eventually. In the meantime, I’ll be posting some chibi stuff.

The Hubby and I are painting this project together, but I won’t be posting any of his stuff here. If you are interested in seeing his work, I’ve started a thread on the Soda Pop forums.

Here are the Chests and Boo Booty from the Forgotten King set.

Chests and Boo Booty

Here are the Rabid Squirrel creeps. I have no idea how that tail armour is supposed to work.

Rabid Squirrel

And finally a Bramble Knight spawning point. We’re painting these models to a lower standard than normal. This one looks especially rough, my apologies!

Bramble Knight

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