Here be dragons (well a dragon, for now)

For starters here are a Minotaur and Troll I had already painted. I always knew I would get a generic fantasy dungeon crawl game at some point and picked these up at a convention. They are of the Umbras Turris range. I’m still not quite sure what to think of the game, but the book was very cheap at the convention and came with a free model. I bought another one. The modelrange is great. It has a familiar look, but is very fun to paint. The models are in resin, good quality and not to expensive. I suggest you check the range out at least if you have an older fantasy warband you’d want to collect or finish.
The minotaur came with some rather civilized and almost elven axes, so I remedied this by some of the more brutal ones I had laying around (Old GW Black ork ones). The troll was painted as is.

Lasting Tales was continuesly asked to produce a beholder. Understandebly, as it is seen as a classic monster, but that particlar one is IP of wizards of the coast. A real D&D staple, though I have never faced on at the table (I did play Eye of the beholder on PC as a kid. They where horrible. so many reloads).
I really wanted one and managed to get some monsters belonging to wizards of the coast own range. They are lovely sculpts, but the material is not fun to work with. Pre-primed is nice, but the bigger monsters had plenty of mold lines and gaps to fill. Still, they painted nicely. When I was able to start painting them I really enjoyed them. The drool was created with som uhu glue, covered in gloss varnish, after painting the model. Don’t forget to cover up the flying stem when varnishing or undercoating a model like this ( I simply used some poster-putty for this.)
The model was mostly painted with a quick wet-blend, followed by a wash and drybrush. Pretty quick and easy, but I do like the end resuly

This moster I never faced, but I needed something thing to justify the postage with my order and I do kind like the look of it. The rhemoraz.
I inspired the colours on the old 2nd edition monstrous manual, mostly because that’s the edition of D&D I always played and I had the book lying around. I found it was a fun challenge to approximate the look as much as possible. Mostly using drybrusked and washes on this model. I enjoyed painting the ice as well. The paint on gloss varnish gave a bit of an odd colouration. Not bad looking on this model, but I tossed the pot afterwards. Can’t chance that when I really can’t use that effect.

Mostly quick and easy these. The unicorn was kinda cheap and I figured it should be in my collection. More NPC/Ally I suppose than antagonist, but I have one now. The bone naga…
Well, I just like it. Horroble to remove moldlines on this however. This was balanced a bit by how fast it was painted. I do feel I need to do something more with the base, but I’m not quite sure what yet.

The crowning piece. It’s been a long time since I painted something this big. I actually primed two dragons. This one belongs to mantics Dungeon Saga. I managed to secure the entire kickstarter pledge on boardgamegeek a while bakc for a good price. The material is awefull. It was horrid to remove mouldlines. But now it’s painted: it really is a nice sculpt. It took washes and drybrushes far better then I feared and is chunky and imposing.
The other dragon is from reaper (called Sleet on their site I think). I got it years ago as I had the option to either get a big model or pay postage for some mini’s I needed for an rpg. The dragon I did finish took way more time than I enticipated and I was kind of burned out at the end. It will have to wait. Though reaper marketed it as a white dragon, I’m gonna make it red. Lasting tales will give me another dragon, which I will paint blue. My goal is to get another two so I can field all five old skool chromatic evil dragons, meaning one white and one black needs to be added in the future.