Mansions of Madness: Streets of Arkham

I've painted up the figures from the latest Mansions of Madness expansion, Streets of Arkham. The quality of the sculpts has greatly improved compared to the first edition.

First, the investigators. Tommy Muldoon is the rookie cop. He's got something of a young Peter O'Toole going on in his cheekbones.

Tommy Muldoon

Finn Edwards is a bootlegger. His face is great, but didn't photograph well. I tried to paint him carrying a bottle of illicit whisky, which was tricky.

Finn Edwards

Diana Stanley is the former cultist with a heart of gold. Her face is a little featureless, unfortunately. I gave her green details, as most of my Cthulhu stuff has green in it. I quite like how the candle flame and wax look.

Diana Stanley

Marie Lambeau is a jazz singer who learnt about monsters and spells from her grand-mère in the bayou. A lovely sculpted face.

Marie Lambeau

Not all the foes they face are supernatural: the hired guns with their derby hats became some clichéd Irish hitmen under my brush. I enjoyed layering their trenchcoats.

The skeletons are suitably 19th century with their watch chains and waistcoats.

My favourites are the Star Vampires. These are invisible creatures which can be heard faintly tittering, and become visible by being filled up with their victims' blood. They're a chaotic mess of teeth and tentacles- perfect. I based them on 60mm bases.

Star Vampires

Finally, the Lloigor. It is some sort of invisible reptile thing, and I'm not really fond of the sculpt- it is a monster designed by a gaggle of schoolkids. It's got two legs, four arms with claws, four arms with pincers, eight eyes, a pincer on the tail, armour on the back of its neck, floppy looking spines- it really reminds me of the Black Beast of Arrgh! I persevered with multiple thin layers of grey, and am satisfied with the outcome. It's big- I based it on an 80mm mini-disc.

Lloigor

Battlelore- Heralds of Dreadfall

Here's the rest of my Undying force for Battlelore, the Heralds of Dreadfall.

The Heralds of Dreadfall

First, more Reanimates.

Reanimates

I really like the Skeleton Archers. They've got attitude.

Skeleton Archers

The Death Knights are your quintessential heavy cavalry, albeit evil and living impaired.

Death Knights

The Wraiths are really cool sculpts with lovely flowing robes.

Wraiths

I wasn't a fan of the pose of the Barrow Wyrm at first, but it grew on me.

Barrow Wyrm

Here they are together with last week's Terrors of the Mists. Living beings beware!

Waiquar, the Undying

Coincidentally, I had my first game last night of Runewars, and so I took the Undead. Since it was our first game it was a five hour slog and I was robbed of victory in the last turn! It is quite a well-crafted game, which pushes you towards conflict.

My purple undead clash for unliving room with the blues and reds.

Battlelore- Terrors of the Mists

My painting mojo returned this week after a month-long absence. I was inspired by last week's retrospective, and also the impending AHPC VII.

Here are the 'Terrors of the Mists' for Battlelore. I wanted to get these purple undead done in time for last week's purple-themed post, but they had to wait. I used a simple colour scheme of purple with white and grey and a black wash for a quick and effective unified force.

Battlelore Terrors of the Mists

The reanimates have a definite Ray Harryhausen feel to them, which I adore.

Battlelore Reanimates

Zombie Wolves! I love adding the gore effect to these barghests.

Battlelore Barghests

The Bone Horrors were dead simple to paint, and so first off the queue.

Battlelore Bone Horrors

The necromancers are generic evil dudes.

Battlelore Necromancers

The Banshee is completely context free, which I love. Is she a captive, or a terrible spirit even the necromancers can't fully control? I used a green wash over white, like my Mansions of Madness ghosts, and it is so easy.

Battlelore Banshee

Next week- more Battlelore undead.

Blood Bowl- Khemri

Another Blood Bowl team from the past. The Khemri are by far the quickest team to paint! They're good to game with, because they teach you the value of a 4+ to pick up the ball. I have done a two-turn TD with this team- once.

The Entombed Raiders

Blitzers (left) and Throwers (right). (I don't know where that black box came from!)

Skeletons

Mummies/ Tomb Guardians

Star Player

Team Coach

Reroll and turn markers

The skeletons are from Warhammer plastics. The mummies, coach and scarabs are all from Reaper.

My painting mojo has disappeared, hence no post last week and a few retrospective posts rather than anything new. Also, I'm moving house which does tend to upset things. Hopefully back to normal programming soon!