Moonglow Miniatures - RPG Terrain and Mini Painting

Last time we painted up an Earth Elemental from the Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game.   This week the board game painting continues with a trio of wolves from the Castle Ravenloft Board Game. I continued my journey of painting miniatures with no guide by painting up these wolves.  In the weekly game I run, our party has a ranger with a wolf companion, and a druid who often wild-shapes into a wolf.  Because of this I felt that the wolves would make a great addition to the table. I started by searching images of painted wolf minis to see what others had done, but I was unsatisfied with a lot of the solid-colored wolves.  I quickly abandoned the mini search in favor of using reference images of actual wolves.  I really wanted to capture the shift of color from dark to light in the fur. I started with the lightest coat and slowly added darker shades near the top.  I also wanted to have one of the wolves stand out from the others and so I we...

The Beginning of the Obsession In the spring of 2017 I finally got into Dungeons & Dragons.  I had been dying to play since I had been in middle school but never had the opportunity.  So when it finally happened I became obsessed.  Our group didn't have any minis and I suddenly took it upon myself to become the miniature master.  I scoured my childhood toys for appropriate minis, bought cheap figures online, and eventually started shelling out way more money than I should have to build up a collection. A year later I received the Reaper Bones Learn to Paint Kit as a present.  I was excited to finally put some color on these minis or maybe touch up some of the bad paint jobs that already existed.  But for some reason I hesitated. Learning to Paint - The Skeleton Archer A month or so ago I finally broke that seal.  After making my first pieces of miniature scatter terrain I decided it was time to learn to paint.  So I broke open t...