*cough, cough!* Wow, it got dusty around here. I apologize for the extended leave of absence; I didn't realize how severely my mojo had left me in regards painting.
Truth be told, it didn't really return until a couple weeks ago when Tom and I had our first game of Frostgrave together in over a year. My Summoner warband, the Diabolists of Belphegor, made a return appearance, facing off against a newly-created Enchanter warband of Tom's. I had tweaked my warband and spell-list a bit and felt a bit more confident going in. We had a great game, despite my Summoner rolling a "1" on his attempt to summon a demon - for the second game in a row! - and having the demon attack him. At least this time, Belphegor was prepared and managed to kill the demon promptly!
Even more entertainingly, Tom managed to cast "Mind-Control" on my Knight, and keep him under control for a couple rounds.
At the end of the game, Belphegor had gone up two levels, found some decent treasure - including a Banner of Courage and two Potions of Invisibility - but lost Black Phillip, the goat-headed infantryman; Big Joe, a thug; and Deladrin, a thief. Seriously, I rolled a 4 or lower on a d20 three times out of seven, leaving me with three permanently-dead warband members. Ouch.
So I had enough spare figures painted for this warband that I was able to replenish my ranks for the next game without painting any new figures - except, I decided to convert a new representation of my current Knight, Reaper's "Vaeloth, Hellborn Paladin." Since Vaeloth is now carrying the Banner of Courage (to help protect him from future attempts at being mind-controlled), I wanted a figure of him holding a banner. Fortunately, Reaper Bones are cheap and easy to convert. I'll be posting pictures of him when he's completed.
In the meantime, here are some monsters and a piece of scatter terrain I've painted:
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| A trio of Ice Spiders - WotC preprimed "Phase Spider" miniatures from their "Nolzur's" line |
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| A few more Imps (Reaper Bones Hordelings) since I toss them around like confetti now. |
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| Reaper Bones "Bat Demon" to serve as a new Minor Demon for summoning purposes. |
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| Maybe the repeated casting rolls of "1" are in protest of the old model I was using? |
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| Reaper "Well of Chaos" to serve as a Well of Dreams and Sorrows for that scenario. |
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| Good luck getting to the Well, Tom! |
