Tool: Brushes, fine point and flat edge
Location: EBay, Tool Liquidators
Cost: $3.40 (including shipping)
Tool: Paint Tray
Location: EBay, eXcess Baggage Shoppe
Cost: $5.40 (including shipping)
The first image is a spider nest. The piece is small and the detail is even smaller (there are probably 10 - 15 spiders detailed on the surface), so my image came out pretty blurry. It's fairly three-dimensional, with a lot of cracks and spaces underneath the molded spiders. I have six of these pieces because one store sold them in threes, so I ahve some to practice on and one for each of the kids to paint.
The second image are three goblins, one of which has a dagger and two of which are bow...men? These are very small pieces with decent amount of detail, so they could be a challenge to paint. The bow...thing guys are well scuplted, but the dagger guy looks a little sloppy. These would be considered "mooks" in most games, so I'm not worried about them looking particularly good, but I hate how there's more detail than their importance warrants.
The third image is of two hunting drakes. They look like chunky velociraptors and are also relatively small pieces. There are scales and some reptilian features, but overall not a lot contrasting details. By "contrasting". I mean that for the goblins they have shirts, armor, belts, gear, etc., which will not look right if all painted together. The drakes have textured skin, so I can add some blending and coloration but I don't have to. Thse might be easier pieces to start with.
These are some larger pieces for painting. The first image has a human cultist, an orc warrior, and a drow mage. These are relatively large pieces with large sections which I can paint the same color. Of course, there's also a lot of potential for fancying up these pieces, and since they represent heroes (or villains), it's worth doing a good job on them. Also, they have the potential for representing player characters in our D&D games. The cultist in particular could be redecorated as a human wizard and would be a nice player piece. There's also some wash techniques I've watched on Youtube that I could replicate on his cloak. I'll probably try my hand at these last.
The middle image has a ghoul, a zombie, and a devil. Again, these are decent sized pieces with potential for large swatches of similar color. The features don't show well in my pictures but they do look interesting to me. The last image is a panther and a spider. I was really looking forward to painting the spider (as you may guess from reading previous posts), but my son BEGGED for it to be his to work on. Oh well, easy come, easy go. There are three of them in the Castle Ravenloft game, so I'll have plenty of chances to work on the spiders. The panther will be my daughter's to work on.
I started prepping the figures for painting today, but I'll have to save that for a later post.