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Stone Golem

This is another miniature painted up for an Earthdawn game and was used as an Obsidiman Wizard until the player decided he wanted to play something else. This one is a Reaper fig that is larger than standard 25mm figures.

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Valdarynn, Arch Mage

I painted Valdarynn up for an arcanist character in the rotating-GM role-playing campaign that I was in in late '09.  I went with a bright fantasy-esque fiery theme for this figure to match his flavor of magic and his temper. I had initially painted his inner robe yellow but it looked too much like a rain slicker. I repainted it in the gray you see here to try and evoke a little smoke to the robe's fiery color.

 

Ardynn D’Narg, Elven Fighter Mage

Ardynn is yet another miniature inspired by a character in my Earthdawn campaign- this time an NPC Warrior/Nethermancer.  I wanted to stay away from the stereotypical "necromancer black" though so decided to use a few different blues as the miniature's primary color.

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Alaine, Female Paladin

My wife picked this miniature out to represent her Earthdawn character - a Dinganni Warrior. The Dinganni are a darker skinned people, so the skintone on this one is a little darker than what I usually do.

Gord Ironhead

Gord was originally purchased to serve as the captain of a friend's Mordheim squad, and remained unpainted for years even after it was given to me when its owner quit playing. I eventually decided to go ahead and give him a really fast paint job just so I'd have another dwarf painted and ready for use.

 

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Elquin The Daring

Elquin was chosen to represent an elven Earthdawn character, and with that character came a few color-related challenges. Elves of that world typically follow a philosophy called the Wheel of Life, where each of the five stages is represented by a different outlook on life and different color schemes of dress. Talon followed the path of the scholar, the colors of which are red and yellow.

 

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Tariq, Dune Ranger Sergeant

Tariq was a fun and relatively simple miniature to paint.  Typically I pick miniatures to paint based on need for various table top games, but Tariq is one of the few figures that I purchased and painted simply because I wanted to paint it.  Despite being one of my older pieces, it stands up pretty good next to many of my newer pieces.

 

The armor was done similar to Boris's armor - painted with a mix of Parchment and Goosefeather, washed/inked/stained with a dark brown, then highlighted back up with the original colors. The metallics were shaded with a wash of black mixed with Vallejo Smoke and highlighted by mixing in some Mithril Silver. The skin was the standard Vallejo mix I used back at the time, left a little darker than usual.

• Manufacturer & Line: Reaper - Dark Heaven Legends
• Mini Name: 14094 - Tariq, Dune Ranger Sergeant
• Painted: 2005

Boris, Evil Fighter

Actually deciding what colors to paint on a miniature is usually very difficult for me. I'm a more technically minded person, and grasp the application of colors and shading much faster than actually deciding what colors go together well. However when I saw Boris in the blister at my local store, I immediately knew exactly how I wanted to paint him up.

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Amiryth Elmlighter

I had wanted to try to paint a female elven archer up as a Night Elf from Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III for a while. It took some searching to find one that I felt I could work with-one with enough exposed skin to practice a non-standard flesh tone. When I saw the green for this miniature on Reaper's web site, I found what I was looking for. I painted her flesh tones first as I usually do - starting with a dark purple and slowly building up layers of highlighting. Once I was done, I was happy with the result, but unsure of exactly where to proceed from there.

 

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Lurg, Half-Orc Assassin

The Earthdawn RPG has races and classes that are somewhat non-standard by traditional means. One of the characters in the game I ran, Tridae, was a Beastmaster. In Earthdawn Beastmasters typically learn to shape their hands into claws. Since we really only use miniatures in battle scenes, finding something that looked as close as possible was our goal. Luckily Reaper put out Lurg here, and since Tridae was an ork to begin with, it was the best match we could come up with. The claw weapon and the dirty looking dreadlocks really helped set the tone.

 

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