Getting back to work and wishing I was painting!

This is the time of year that my painting takes a serious holiday as I am trying to get my head around the new academic year, so I thought that I would just reminisce about the progress I made over the summer. I managed to finish off the monsters from The Trollfens and five the Lieutenants packs from the base game. It is great to be able to focus on a single miniature to try out some new techniques like source lighting!

First every attempt at source lighting and very pleased.

Descent update!

Image dump of the progress I have made on the Descent models as I have now finished all the minions for Labyrinth of Ruin.

Love these models so much, can't wait to get them on the table.

Finishing Descent models

I realised I hadn't updated this in a long while and I had made loads of progress on my Descent models!

My first set of Heroes ready to kick minion backsides

Making progress on Descent

Quick image dump for my painting progress:

realising how much time it takes to move!

Last time I finished a Descent model was October!?! I had grossly underestimated both how long it would take me to paint the crypt dragons and just how much time moving a few hundred miles and switching jobs takes up!

Really happy with how these have turned out and can't wait to get them to the table.I must follow the card art more often!

Finishing my Priests

Finally finished the Dark Priests. Photo, as usual, not really as good at showing off the bits I am proud of but hey they are done. Now for a couple of dragons and heroes!

Dicing with lasers!

Just a quick image dump of my first steps into custom dice manufacture:

I bought completely blank dice so I have engraved the pips as well 

I only used up two dice in my testing (one properly and one from accidental laser settings so now it is a test die too!) leaving me 18 left over...

...the first batch of six are Dave dice but I can't resist the idea of making dice for others games. But which ones to choose?