New Life... and it's already turned Undead.

Ok I'm starting a blog. More for me than you in a way. I am a fan of forums, groups of people coming together to share cool ideas, cool things, in general 'cool' to a specific group.

It's not a new idea, there have always been them and us, so technology is simply creating new ways to open up and close ranks all at once.

But forums are dying, the creature that is Facebook has an appetite. And I'm resisting as long as possible. I enjoy a record of what I've done. And this blog is just the next step from a several year long Work In Progress thread. Something that I would whole-heartily recommend to anyone hoping to better their miniature painting.

And there it is I finally get to the point - this is a miniature painting blog - getting to the point is not going to be done quickly around here. Just a heads up.

There will be ramblings about mostly miniature painting, and some D&D. Life, strangeness and fantasy will be interjected at times.

So back to the point - first post - Woo!

I've been in a long running D&D game for years, I'm the only "surviving" character, which is to say that I've been killed and raised and then finally betrayed and turned into a vampire by my party...Remember "Plan A" = Run away.

That game when it started was how my miniature painting hobby started. I thoroughly enjoy painting 'character minis' so every character was painted up by me, often several versions. But to cut the story shorter I currently need to paint a new character.

A True Necromancer.

My friends are regularly shown my latest acquisitions but this is the first time that someone with a recently slain PC has rushed to my painting desk and pulled from the 'grey mountain', 'lead pile', 'mini stash', the miniature he wants and builds a character around it.

I couldn't help but laugh, he had a blinding emthusiam about the mini. A particularly nice Darksword mini. I had to paint it for him.

Here is what I have so far.

I have also in the space of a few days painted some Ghouls. You sort of get this thing with necromancers, minions of the undead kind.

They are blue because I had been given a bottle of 'Tropical Blue' from Reaper when I ordered these guys. I wanted to give it a whirl. It ended up a nice colour which is a lot coming from me. I have this thing against Blue, the most overused favourite colour of men.

I've got a Forsaken Shell, which I doubt I'll get a mini for. A Mummy and a Ghost mini to get before the horrible hoard is ready to game.

In the mean time I've got slime to prepare. And some reading up blog posting. I've noticed the images are too small for my liking already, mayhaps just the blogger template. But patience it is after all a work in progress.