DanyTancou
New Member
Hello everyone,
Total n00b here, hailing from Toronto. I began thinking about starting to paint minis back in the summer, after watching several of Bottled Imp's reviews of the many expansions for the board game Talisman.. In virtually every video he says that he paints the minis himself "to various quality standards" (or something to that effect) so I said to myself just how hard can it be and I started to watch videos about this hobby. By September I started buying supplies (and minis) little by little, until November, when I felt like I had gathered enough stuff to actually start.
I started by painting four pillars and the "toppled" one that came in a set from Wizkids. I was happy with and very much enjoyed the process, so once done with those I moved on to paint a Beholder mini which is now complete. (I think it's a "large mini" because even without the eye stalks, the body is twice the size of the Mind Flayers figures I got at the same time.) Unfortunately, between work, jogging, hiking, rock climbing and playing board games, I don't have nearly enough time to dedicate to painting, but that's not a problem for me, since I find I'm enjoying it just as much as the other stuff. Still, even though paining the pillars likely didn't require more than 2-3 hours in total, it took all of November to finish them. The Beholder took ~20hrs near as I can figure, but I started in early December and only now do I consider it finished... but I'll post pictures in the Just Starting message board and we'll see what you guys think!
(I haven't applied varnish yet, so I can still make changes.)
My goal here is to have something ELSE to do during my "down time"... I've always loved fantasy board games and, of course, DnD (though DnD limited to reading many of the novels, playing some of the video games and tabletop RPGs-in-a-box, never an actual RPG run by a DM) so being able to get minis for some of the characters and many of the monsters, and bringing them to life through painting... I mean, that's pretty bloody cool, even if these I will only paint for display/dioramas. On the other hand, I figure I may as well also get something (else) out of this, so I plan to paint all the minis from all my board games (except from RISK: Godstorm.. no way, I'm not crazy! ... OK, maybe just the Gods ) which I'm sure is going to make playing the games a bit more enjoyable.
... So there we are, that's me.
Total n00b here, hailing from Toronto. I began thinking about starting to paint minis back in the summer, after watching several of Bottled Imp's reviews of the many expansions for the board game Talisman.. In virtually every video he says that he paints the minis himself "to various quality standards" (or something to that effect) so I said to myself just how hard can it be and I started to watch videos about this hobby. By September I started buying supplies (and minis) little by little, until November, when I felt like I had gathered enough stuff to actually start.
I started by painting four pillars and the "toppled" one that came in a set from Wizkids. I was happy with and very much enjoyed the process, so once done with those I moved on to paint a Beholder mini which is now complete. (I think it's a "large mini" because even without the eye stalks, the body is twice the size of the Mind Flayers figures I got at the same time.) Unfortunately, between work, jogging, hiking, rock climbing and playing board games, I don't have nearly enough time to dedicate to painting, but that's not a problem for me, since I find I'm enjoying it just as much as the other stuff. Still, even though paining the pillars likely didn't require more than 2-3 hours in total, it took all of November to finish them. The Beholder took ~20hrs near as I can figure, but I started in early December and only now do I consider it finished... but I'll post pictures in the Just Starting message board and we'll see what you guys think!
(I haven't applied varnish yet, so I can still make changes.)My goal here is to have something ELSE to do during my "down time"... I've always loved fantasy board games and, of course, DnD (though DnD limited to reading many of the novels, playing some of the video games and tabletop RPGs-in-a-box, never an actual RPG run by a DM) so being able to get minis for some of the characters and many of the monsters, and bringing them to life through painting... I mean, that's pretty bloody cool, even if these I will only paint for display/dioramas. On the other hand, I figure I may as well also get something (else) out of this, so I plan to paint all the minis from all my board games (except from RISK: Godstorm.. no way, I'm not crazy! ... OK, maybe just the Gods
) which I'm sure is going to make playing the games a bit more enjoyable.... So there we are, that's me.
