Moonglow Miniatures - RPG Terrain and Mini Painting

Winter Monsters Sorry for the hiatus.  My life has been quite busy lately and as a result, I haven't gotten the chance to paint or craft lately.  Additionally, my games have been repeatedly delayed.  Back at the end of February I promised some winter monsters.  But my party took a turn in their adventure and delayed their confrontation with Shiver the Ice Hag and her chilling minions.  Not wanting to ruin their reveal I waited.  But no more! This past Monday the party finally confronted Shiver, who was waiting for them to trade over a powerful magical item in exchange for the return of their companion.  When the party decided that she would be too dangerous with the artifact she summoned three yetis and nearly wiped the party. Although only a handful of them saw game time, I painted up several minis for this session, all of which came from the Chill Out pack of Reaper Bones 3 Kickstarter Core set .  Let's take a look. The Yetis ...

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...