Reply To: What Are You Painting Now? 2025 – 2026 Edition

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This week I managed to complete two things.  The first was the Knight Questor from Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower.  He isn’t based yet because I am still awaiting direction on what the owner actually wants.  It’s a sort of commission, you see.  No money involved or anything,  my brother asked if I would paint the heroes and main villains for it (while he paints the rest) so we can play with painted miniatures and the main focal points will look reasonably good.  A did the same a few years ago for Blackstone Fortress:

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Say what you want about GeeDubs but these models were a lot of fun to paint (mostly. Chaos Space Marines can get in the sea).  There’s just the right level of grimdark about them; lots of character without being too busy with pointless details.  And not having to paint full armies, just painting a really diverse set of characters was just amazing. And I suspect the Warhammer Quest stuff will be the same.  The difference is, when it came to basing, I could get those lovely frosted effect acrylic bases in different colours – blue for heroes,  red for enemies and purple for neutrals.  I can’t do that for silver tower because they aren’t available without the hex pattern engraved on them, which works nicely for Scifi/Blackstone Fortress, less so for fantasy/Silver Tower.  So the options we are looking at are full scenic bases (the Age of Sigmar Shattered Realms look quite nice) or plain, uncoloured clear acrylic.

The other thing I did was make a small landscape to use with some Backdrop Artwork books I purchased a while ago.  I have been meaning to get around to this for ages and so, with the 2025 Terrain Challenge looming on the horizon (I hope!), I decided to start getting some practice in and I made a smalle, snow covered outcrop.  The row of large stones at the back are there to prevent a hard edge between the floor of the landscape and the background image.  The test subject was the Napoleon Crossing the Alps miniature from Foundry, which is based on a famous series of paintings that Napoleon had commissioned.  In his arrogance, he had the same painting commissioned multiple times with slightly different uniforms.