Snapshots and updates

It's been a really strong 9 week run to date with two posts a day. I'm certainly back in the swing of blogging but I've started to run close to my backlog of scheduled posts. I foresee some point in the next couple weeks where the content here will drop down to the originally planned single post per week. This could happen as soon as next week, depending on how this week goes.

That said, I'm still moving along with a second post this week. I wanted to share some of the additional model's I've painted up since the last post. I'm spending my time currently split between painting Guild Ball and painting Super Dungeon Explore.

Guild Ball

On the Guild Ball front, to date I've completed painting up all my Brewers, Masons, and Union models. That is to say all my Union models minus one, Mynx, who's making her way onto my painting table this week. I've already posted pictures of my Union and Masons with the team reviews, which savvy readers will have picked out. I just completed my Brewers and will be sharing the individual model pictures with readers when I do the team review for them. I expect that will be in a couple weeks once I've had a chance to play a half-dozen games and feel comfortable with them. For the time being, here's a team shot to show off:

Super Dungeon Explore

On the SDE front I've been powering through new models at a much higher pace. I'm working on getting my Von Drakk set painted up so I have all the models I need for a Haloween game we'll be playing at our party. I have a fair bit to go but have been doing ok on progress.

First I worked on finishing up my set of dragons from the 1st edition starter set.

Following that I knocked out another couple heroes before setting in on my Von Drakk baddies:

The Von Drakk stuff has been coming along steadily, although I still have the big set's of multiple models do paint up (skeletons, armored skeletons, skull bats).

I broke out some time during my elite minion painting to knock out a couple mini-bosses I needed to complete:

And of course I made time to paint up the Boss and his shapeshift form as well.

I might regret not saving them for last, but I doubt it overall. I'm keeping my fingers crossed I'll be able to power through the minions and creeps with time to paint up the full Stilt Town Zombies box as well.

Super Dungeon Explore Villian Showcase

Last Monday I shared my Super Dungeon Explore (SDE) hero models that I've painted up. I realized while writing the brief commentary and laying out the article that I had far more pictures of the combined SDE collection than would fit nicely on a single blog post. Here we are with taking a look at the villains (mini-bosses & bosses) and monsters. As I mentioned previously, all of these pictures have shown up on the Soda Pop forums as well, so you may have seen them there.

Let's jump in looking at the single boss that I have painted up. This is Roxxor, the fire and rock Boss from the set named after him.  He's the only dungeon boss I have currently painted, although I have the Dragon primed and ready to be painted. Due to Halloween coming up and a potential SDE Halloween party in the planning, I will have to push the Dragon to the back of my painting tray and move Von Drakk, the shape changing vampire boss, up to the front of the queue.

I've had a great deal of fun painting the mini-bosses for SDE. They are a fun mix between monsters and characters, with many being similar to the hero models in overall size and style. Here we have the mini-bosses I've painted so far.

Beyond these four I also have 2 Rex ogre mini-bosses painted up, although I did not paint those. Prior to getting motivated to paint these myself I had 13th hour miniatures paint up my kobolds and ogres as a quickie project.

That brings us down to the monsters that I've painted to be deployed into the dungeons. Monsters in SDE are divided into 3 categories, Elites, Minions, and Creeps. I've not yet started work on my variety of creeps, but here are the other monsters I have painted (plus the kobolds). First up are the Fire Beasties:

Then come the dragon beasties:

And lastly are the spawning points and treasure chests for the game:

Super Dungeon Explore Heroes Showcase

It's picture time on DTP, and today we're taking a look at some Super Dungeon Explore (SDE) models. I've mentioned in previous articles that I've been painting again, and that I've been enjoying painting up chibi models from SDE. I set-up the light box and grabbed some pictures of most of the models I've painted. These have been previously posted to the Soda Pop forums as well, so anyone who looks there will have seen these.

Those who have followed DTP for any amount of time, or have a keen eye on recent pictures, will notice a difference in my backdrop for these pictures. On looking over some of the photos I've taken my wife recommended a change for the SDE models. She felt that a black backdrop (opposed to blue) would allow the colors on these models to pop more than the blue background. Overall I've been happy with the results, although the camera can be a bit finicky. I'm still setting up my point and shoot camera on auto for these pictures, and it sometimes decides the black backdrop means it should be a nighttime picture. Apparently there were too many dark colors between the black backdrop and the brown colors on the dwarves, and that's what happened here.

Having now started with the heroes, let's continue on to look at the other heroes I've painted up.

This gives us 13 choices of painted heroes we can play during our SDE games. I'm continuing to add more as I move along, having already painted up the models both my daughter and wife liked most. I'll come back with another post later that shows the monsters and Mini-bosses I have painted.