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We celebrated S1's birthday recently. Labor Day through New Year's is very busy for us - six birthdays and 4 major holidays. We're not flying back to the "Old Country" for Christmas so I've really opened the wallet lately. Anyway, here are some pictures from S1's special day.
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Halloween post updated with trick-or-treat pictures
![]() Looking at Immeril's tile and card, I like the purple color scheme, white hair, and black eyes. His fantasy race is Eladrin, which are mystic elves of legend (more like the Fey than brownies or forest people). They are tall and slim of build, with fair skin and white hair.; they have pointy ears and solid-colored eyes. They also have a racial affinity for magic, which leads to an archetype of eladrin wizards. His sculpt has adventurer's clothing, like boots and pants (no pansy gowns or robes), a tunic (like you might see on a Jedi), and a flowing cloak. He's holding a ball of flame in his hands. Funny story about that - after painting the fireball, I asked for my wife's opinion. She said "I have no idea what that is" - I thought it was obviously a ball of flame, but she said she's not used to seeing people's hands on fire. Truly, we come from different worlds... Below are some different paint jobs for the Eladrin wizard. The leftmost figure has a Jedi-like look that I admire, with the leather tunic and earth-tone robes. But, I like the bases and color-schemes to match the card; the fireball looks nice, though. The center figure is from a painter whose pieces always look very nice, and this is no exception. Although I want a purple color scheme, this is a bit much, and the cloak blends with the tunic too much. The right-most figure is from the D&D Miniatures game and is prepainted (same sculpt), to give an idea of what a mass-produced paint job looks like. Not as bad as it could be, but the boots really should be a different brown than the leggings. I like the interpretation of metallic greaves along the arms, which is different than how the previous two artists saw the same sculpt.
Unfortunately, I don't have any more intermediate images of Immeril so these are my final shots.
I've cleaned up the borders of this figure since taking these pictures, particularly at the sleeves. Immeril is certainly not my best character (that distinction belongs to Kat the Rogue, whose dark shades fit my painting style better than these bright colors) but not my worst either, and I've enjoyed working in a bright palette. I'm looking forward to working on the last Ravenlot hero, Arjhan the Dragonborn.
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AuthorI am a father of five who is currently working as a medical physicist at [a nice place]. I have a Ph.D. in particle physics and I like games. Archives
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