My Lords of madness case came yesterday!

My Lords of madness case came yesterday! Finally got a chance to go thru them and take pictures.

Couldn't have been a better case - 3 VRs, none of which I'd ordered as singles - c'tallum(much better looking then expected), Mephistopheles(really nice - as expected), and huge blue dragon(really nice - as expected).

9 rares most of which I hadn't ordered. Most of the ones I hadn't gotten in my amazon boosters looked great.

Better then expected:
c'tallum - not so shiny and actually washed - pose looks better in person
Zhentarim Cavalry - was really looking forward to this piece - and even better then expected - looks better then the pic in the gallery - one of the best mounted minis I've seen.
Zhentarim Soldier - nice shield
Water Archon Shoal Reaver - actually a pretty cool mini
Trapped Chest - looks great - wish it'd been a common
Rot Grub Swarm - looks like real grubs... what more can you say
Kenku Wing Mage - actually a cool looking mini
Iron Golem Juggernaut - other then the goofy small head - great looking
Efreet Flameblade - makes a great devil/demon soldier
Astral Giant - nice shield
Brain in a jar - looks great


Worse then expected:
Neogi Slaver - very small and unimpressive
Rot Harbinger - meh, kinda brownish


And what you've all been waiting for - a link to all pics from the new minis

New LOM minis arrived today

New LOM minis arrived today - got my minis from amazon using gift cards I had gotten - ordered 4 packs of the new set. No huge VR, but 1 rare and 3 UC. Got 5 rares (3 med,1lg,1hu)and a medium VR total - so can't complain about that. Also got some of the CR minis I ordered from auggies a few days ago - so threw in some pics of them too. My daughter has started painted some of them as rainbow zombie dragons already. ;-) Blue PC minis seem a little small - maybe after a layer of paint they'll look a little more robust.

Nicer then expected:
Tri-horn behemoth - great looking triceratops - and they have to be good cause it is such an easy piece to find in packs of plastic "dinos". One of my favorites I got from the new set.



Stone giant - great looking giant - will easily proxy for lots of giants or large humanoids - would be good for repainting

Cloaker ambusher - looks great - and the back which is never shown looks great - nicely patterned darker blue

DB elementalist - great looking DB arcane

Lots of minis looked as good as expected - ones that are pictured but not listed below

Not so nice as expected:

Nalfeshnee tyrant - could use 1 more paint step, goofy little wings

Trebuchet - really disappointed in this one - tipsy, bending over - could have used a little more plastic I think - one of the minis i was really looking fwd too - and ordered extras. :-(

AND what you really came here to see - link to all pics

Finally got my new Orcus "mini" - an epic quest!

After 3 tries, finally had a successful order....

ordered when 1st announced a couple of years ago - cancelled and assumed production was cancelled.... but wait

announced awhile back that it was going to be released - so started saving my free amazon gift cards

saw the preorder up on amazon again, but no quantity to order

passed on the auggies preoreder since I had the amazon gift cards and amazon had the preorder up

preorder date on amazon caame and went

finally they took the page down --- oh noes!

ordered from another company that had a listing on amazon..... They cancelled their order cause "it was autolisted at too low a price(full retail) and they wanted to relist at a higher price" ---- "Amazon seller: Art's Game Store" ---- don't waste your time ordering from them

none were available to order.... so ... oh noes!

Next day saw one listed by "Amazon seller: gamers_inn" they shipped and it arrived today!

Finally got it!

here are some pics - i tried out the new video camera that also has a snapshot function - not as good as my regular video camera - about cell phone quality. ;-)

How to train your herzou

Been playing some ddo, Its dnd online

Been playing for awhile now - and our guild finally got an airship - a few screen captures from the first ride we took:

gameday pics and some new painted minis

haven't posted in awhile, so here is the pics from the last game day and some new minis my daughter and I painted:

Link to photobucket pics

How they take those really awesome pictures online - quantam king kondo in progress

Happy new Year!


Wanted to get a "quantam king kondo" - but the price online is ridiculous - so I bought a regular clear one to create my own. Also noticed on the real one - it looks like his chains are painted gold - I decided to go with clear gold rather then the thick gold of the real one. The chains were completed - this uses a gold colored indian ink pen. I will let that dry and then add the purple highlights next time I paint. But while my daughter and I were photographing him afterwards - the pictures turned out pretty awesome.

Pictures are first with normal light, then red led, and then white led. The red led ones turned out great - and look as good as any clear mini pictures I've seen on the web- and this is just with a standard led flashlight and nikon coolpix l20 camera in macro mode.

New stuff for Minis - new set out - Savage encounters - in hand pics - a game day - and some repaints

New stuff for Minis - new set out - Savage encounters - in hand pics - a game day - and some repaints.....

Sorry for the lazy post combining everything new into one post.

Had a good gameday Sat Nov 7th, several people showed up for some good minis - we used the Heroscape map pieces for the map instead of the normal ddm maps that I have - everyone agreed that this was better, and very easy to customize based on the number of players - because of people coming and going, and a couple people out sick - we had games of 3 players - so we made a map with 3 starting areas - pretty cool.



Also my 3 year old and I have started painting minis again - we even repainted a couple of the new beholders from the last set.

I did one that could be used as a ghost/spectral/undead beholder. And it glows in the dark! Started with repainted in white, then a layer of grey, then a ghostly green layer, then a layer of gloss with sparkles in is, the eye done in mettalic light green, and a layer of glow in the dark paint. All the repainted were then sprayed with glossy coat.


Also did a couple of practice magma brutes to toxic brutes(one wet brush then wipe, and one dry brush)







Here's my daughters beholder that fell asleep with his eye closed and got hit by a halfling mage with 'color spray'.


Also we did some earth titans we did on a different day....I keep trying to explain about gloppy paint.....:







And what you've all been waiting for - the pics of the new set:

All the visibles looked great...

ones who looked better then expected:
Purple dragon, Bodak Skulk, Bullywug Guard, Rockfire Dreadnought, Savage Minotaur, Shardstorm Vortex, Windfiend Furg, Zombie Hulk

Overall, an ok set, not as good as the last one though. Some of the minis could have used better paint jobs, and eyes were an issue on several. Also a few stinker rares. Maybe time to increase the price again to raise quality....









Here is the link to the photo bucket with all the pics from all the above posts dumped in a pile - multiple pics of most of the new minis from the new set, below:
http://s895.photobucket.com/albums/ac159/quorthon14/new_minis/?start=0
(THE ABOVE LINK IS WHAT TO CLICK ON TO SEE ALL THE PICS OF THE NEW MINIS - my photobucket)


Also mixed in with the repaints were a few pics of the minis I liked best from the new Monsterpocalypse set - golden monkey and glowing ball(they both got played with at gameday)

trying out some more new runes - FW/SL vs. SL

Sac dagger on temple defender worked out pretty good, high def caused him to live and live and live with 2 near full heals - it was gg after the 2nd heal

WOW KF is OP!

Just played against a KF player, and the way the new KF runes combine - he ended up with a crapload of hp on crap summons and treefolk..... Why couldn't FW get some OP stuff too, most of the new FW stuff is shoebox or at best very specialized. He practically had the game wrapped up by about the 4th turn, when he dropped a stealthed trap in my font, meant all my lumbering champs had a long way to walk.... domi saved the day again, when I had his weasal do a cliff dive, it made the comeback possible, as they lost a lot of hp, and it seemed like I was killing stuff just to get hp off other stuff, a couple things died on the other side of the map when I killed his wb and that sort of thing..... finally had the comeback nearly complete when he got tired and retired. Was about to sac dagger his spider for a full heal on my draco.....when it was gg.....

I hate to lose to KF, it made me stick around

Crazy FW/ST vs. ST L'usara's Staff battle

Trying out the crazy new ST staff..... having the FW physical damage sure helped vs. his frost damage, he even hit me with a rebound, but I already mostly had the middle font, so it turned out ok. 2x EA, 2x LS for both of us.... All 4 EAs and 4 STaffs were out at the same time. About the worst matchup he could get.

Still one of the hardest matches I've had in awhile, that I managed to win. Need to finish cping my champs, and he definitely knew ST better then I do....

Quick win against a high ranked vet SL/UD vs. FW rush

He didn't seem happy about playing against FW.

Survived against a high level KF player

I think he must of got a bad draw - he didn't play a 13 speed Warcaller Fiorn or init champ the first round......

Zombie wall!!1

not an easy bg to win with - you almost always start out behind and have to come back(especially against kf) - but against a SL noobie - it was over from the opening tip-off.... what a difference a 1000 ranks makes..... you can actually play fun bgs at this level.....

oh, and I actually had a Bile zombie survive the whole match - he kept picking up and dropping the pendant - the skeez next to him couldn't hit him except for the round I forgot to do that. ;-) Held the font the whole match.