The Bones lottery in the Drawers of Doom™ came up with the following this week:

1:

Dragoth the Defiler on Throne. Just look at the strength of that undead overlord! Holding his sword casually in the air with his arm outstretched, Darth Vader-style!

This mini is from the second Bones kickstarter core set. I based it on a 50mm round lipped and put some black flock around it. Looks good!

This one can also do double duty as a Charnel Throne scenery item for my Age of Sigmar Flesh Eater Courts Army.

The sword simply would not stay glued to the skull I placed the tip at. That is the power of Bones plastic memory for you. I should have heat treated the thing to position it correctly before painting. Oh well. No matter.

Reaper makes a metal version of this that presumably predates the Bones 2 kickstarter, and that has a vampire’s head instead of a skeleton’s skull. I wonder why they changed it to a skull for the Bones version?

 

“Ah! We meet again! And I see your sword is as big as mine!”

 

77201 Dragoth the Defiler

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 2 KS 2013

Sculpted by Bob Ridolfi

Bonesium PVC.

50mm round lipped base

available from reapermini.com

 

2:

Labella DeMornay, Banshee from the first Bones kickstarter, This is a green translucent, and like all translucents I undercoated it first with Army Painter Anti Shine Matt Varnish, so the following washes would have something to adhere to. This is key to painting translucents. Also, make sure to use transparent paints, like inks and quickshade washes. Opaque paints will invariably ruin the translucent effect. The green tinge of the plastic will affect any transparent colours that are used, and so this must be taken into consideration. For her brown hair, I used Citadel Carroburg Crimson shade (a dark red). The skin is Citadel Casandora Yellow Shade, the dress is old Citadel Blue glaze (red flip-cap hex pot) and ditto Turquoise glaze. Taking care to draw off any pooling and to avoid unsightly tide marks by smoothing with a damp brush while wet. The aim is to tint the translucent plastic, not sp much paint over it, or even “shade” it. Not sure how pleased I am with the results here. I think the results could have been much better if the plastic was clear not green tinged.

 

77096 Labella DeMornay, Banshee

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 2 KS 2013

Sculpted by Julie Guthrie

Translucent green Bonesium PVC.

30mm round lipped base

available from reapermini.com

 

 

3.

The Whispering Tyrant from the second Bones kickstarter. This is an officially licensed Pathfinder miniature. So I guess it is some sort of evil adversary in some adventure or other in that game.

For me, this is Loki. I expect you see why. To make the model even more similar to the trickster god, I cut off the central helment-thing and carved the helmet round. Which took me whole tens of seconds! Bones material is really easy to cut and convert. I will miss this aspect with the Bones Black minis.

On this mini I have tried out some new colorshift paints from Green Stuff World and a flip paint (which is supposed to get the same effect) from Instar.

I probably did not do it right, as I don’t think it has much of a colorshifting effect (there is a slight effect, though). The instructions say to use a gloss black undercoat and many, many thin layers to get the effect.

I did not do that. On a brown basecoat I used GSW Mystic Gold colorshift, and Instar Green Gold Flip, with GSW Tropical Green at the tips and edges. and I just glooped it on! Two or three thick coats of each paint is used here. So next time, maybe I should try actually following the instructions…

Anyhow, this model will make a good leader for my undead legions, or even a C’Tan for the Necrons.

 

89031 Whispering Tyrant

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 2 KS 2013

Sculpted by Bobby Jackson

Bonesium PVC

40mm round lipped base

available from reapermini.com

 

4.

Werecrocodile. Yup, a werecrocodile. Presumably someone survived getting bitten by a croc and then turned the following full moon, tearing off their clothes to waddle down to the river and burble at the moon?

So now we are just waiting for the WereDuckbilledPlatypus and WereMoose with baited breath. Maybe in Bones 5?

Thankfully this mini does not have any clothing, armour, weapons or other items about it’s person. This can work as a monstrous beast of any kind. Even a Kaiju in a game of Epic.

This came from the third Bones kickstarter.

77447 Werecrocodile

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 3 KS 2015

Sculpted by James Van Schaik

Bonesium PVC.

45mm bespoke 3D printed base

available from reapermini.com

 

 

5.

Virina, Female Demon from the first Bones kickstarter. A classic succubus-style female demon. This was a quick paint job, nothing much to say about it. She is very naked with a nicely sculpted figure. No nipples though. Come on! Even Batman has nipples on his suit! But the sex demon does not get any?

 

77067 Virina, Female Demon

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 1 KS 2012

Sculpted by Werner Klocke

Bonesium PVC.

30mm round lipped base

available from reapermini.com

 

speaking of nipples…

6.

Tyrea Bronzelocks, Barbarian

Another win for female body armour protecting just the important bits! Or bit in this case. The right mammary and shoulder being her only vunerable points?

Dat ass tho! Might this mini by any chance be sculpted by Kev White? Why, yes. Yes it is. Kev certainly has a knack for sculpting sexy people. Single nipple and all.

 

77374 Tyrea Bronzelocks, Barbarian

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 2 KS 2013

Sculpted by Kev White

Bonesium PVC

30mm round lipped base

available from reapermini.com

 

7.

Freja Fangbreaker. On the topic of female, form fitting armour, it turns out that the upper chest area of female dwarves is invulnerable to all kinds of piercing and slashing weapons, so it does not need any armour! Ain’t it great? Presumably the prominent devils dumplings act as bumpers and the impressive cleavage does not at all act as a funnel for spears?

Seriously though, this is a first Bones KS model, made in the softer early Bonesium. And still it has rather good detail, only slightly shallow on the quilting on the back and on the lower right hand arm armour. Which goes to show that on larger figures that has deeper details (A dwarf counting as larger? Maybe I should say wider?) Bones is a good material.

 

77073 Freja Fangbreaker

Reaper Miniatures, Bones 1 KS 2012

Sculpted by Werner Klocke

Bonesium PVC

25mm bespoke 3D printed base

available from reapermini.com

 

 

Painted so far this year:   (Miniatures:  155 /365 goal // scenery and terrain: 10)

January: 30

February: 44   //  10

March: 17

April: 45

May: 19