In between Epic Titans, I have, for some variety, been occasionally painting up some more Spyglass/Eolith miniatures. They’re really nice models to paint, and that and the fact that they’re not part of an army so I can spend some extra time on each one individually has meant that they’re probably the best paint-jobs I’ve done. I’d painted up a couple, though, when I realised that with Shae, Kaylee and Barnaby, I’d painted up three quarters of a D&D group: a ranger, a sorceress and a cleric. All I needed was a ‘defender’ type character: a fighter, paladin or similar.

There were multiple candidates for this position. One possibility was the Spyglass Barbarian Warlord model, but he seemed too much like a ‘bad guy’ to fit. I also considered using ‘Tiriel’ from Hasslefree Miniatures, but decided I’d rather stick with Spyglass for this group. So I went with the Si’Rene model. She’s perhaps a little under-armoured for a fighter, but close enough.

Unfortunately, although I had used the same basing style for Kaylee and Barnaby (rough paving stones), I’d done Shae differently, so she didn’t quite fit. Fortunately, I had a spare version of the model that came as a pack with some others, so I came up with an alternative colour scheme and painted up another one.

So here they are as a group:

Here’s Kaylee, the sorceress. I decided to play up the heavy metal angle implied by the use of the corna gesture by using a lot of black in her clothing, although I didn’t want to over-do that so that she wouldn’t fit in a fantasy setting.

Next up is Barnaby, the monk. He’s more in the European monastic tradition than the oriental, so in D&D terms he’d be a cleric. Of all these models, this is the one I’m most pleased with, and I think he’s probably the best paint-job I’ve done.

Here’s Si’Rene, the fighter. As I mentioned before, she probably ought to be wearing a little more armour than this, but she’s close enough.

And here’s the new version of Shae. I think she’s actually come out better than the other one. I think this is possibly because her face is a slightly different shape (probably as a result of being a resin cast rather than metal), and looks slightly better. I went for a more ‘urban’ colour scheme this time around, with greys and browns to blend in with wood and stone, rather than the predominantly green I used before. I think the flashes of red also give a vaguely autumnal feel.

Of course, since I don’t much like D&D as a game, and I’m not keen on using miniatures in RPGs (although in D&D, especially 4th edition, you need to have some sort of map system to handle combat), these models will probably never be used for gaming. But until half of them were done I was only ever intending to paint them for the fun of it anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. And it’s nice to have a theme to tie them together.