[Random table] A winged amazon with six-shooters riding a pegasus and more sick airbrushed panel van art pieces

Dunno, I guess roll on this when you airbrush your van or get your next tattoo OR JUST RUN A GAME AND GENERATE THE CHARACTERS WITH THIS, GO BIG OR GO HOME.

The Hero is...

	Appearance	Type	Weapon	Mount/Ride
1	buff	amazon	crystal sword	pegasus
2	sexy	barbarian	moon staff	unicorn
3	masked	paladin	lightning wand	Harley Davidson
4	lion-maned	sorceress	machine gun	warhorse
5	winged	wizard	pair of six-shooters	sabretooth tiger
6	golden-skinned	supersoldier	katana	dragon
7	bionic	princess	battle axe	woolly mammoth
8	mighty-thewed	skylord	laser rifle	giant eagle
9	armored	angel	rocket launcher	antigrav skiff
10	chain bikini/loincloth	cyborg	psychic enhancer	nuclear warhead

 

Vanquishing…

	Appearance	Type	Minions	Animals
1	skull-faced	giant	zombies	serpent
2	one-eyed	tyrant	skeletons	vulture
3	undead	high priestess	mutants	scorpion
4	half-*Animal	cult leader	*Animal-men	fish
5	*Animal-headed	lich	harpies	frog
6	oozeified	warlock	mindless fanatics	roach
7	flaming	godling	fungoids	worm
8	cthulhoid	alien	super	spider
9	tentacle	robot	imps	shark
10	serpentine	demon	goblins	bull

 

Against the backdrop…

	Backdrop	Color/Pattern
1	erupting volcano	rainbow-hued
2	jagged rocks	shimmering
3	sunset	orange
4	clouds & mists	purple
5	cosmic vistas	green
6	lush jungle	translucent
7	post-apocalyptic wasteland	aquamarine
8	megapolis skyline	silver
9	ringed planet	black
10	fetid swamp	yellow

 

(Images from Cvlt Nation)

More adventures in miniature painting

I painted a couple more miniatures. I'm taking it slow, savoring the process... Soon I will have enough for a warband or two, to play some skirmish games. I'm building terrain/ruins as well. I might play Frostgrave or Song of Blades and Heroes. 

So who do we have here? From left to right:

• Witch, casting a fire spell from a scroll! A Frostgrave Wizards II figurine. I'm quite happy with how she turned out. The burning scroll in particular. I didn't intend her to be so Dragonbally, but these things happen...
• Skeleton, champion of the oppressed! A Wargames Atlantic skeleton. The horned skull is supposed to be for the standard, but looks good on the model too.
• Skeleton, laughing and chilling! A Wargames Atlantic Late Roman soldier, with a skull. I particularly like the casual pose.
• Tiger-man warrior! A Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Irish body combined with a goblin head. Initially I wanted to do an orc, but then decided to do a beast-person instead! 

Painting my first miniature (after a 16-year hiatus)

And it feels good to be back! Ah, the familiar smells...

I decided to pick up miniature painting again. It's something I'd enjoyed a lot in the past. Converting, painting, kitbashing. Playing I enjoyed too, especially skirmish stuff like Mordheim.

For now, I just plan to concentrate on returning to the artistic/creative side. I need a hobby that isn't connected to a computer screen :)

I picked up some supplies and a an assortment of figurines. I went with Wargames Atlantic, because some of the models spoke to me --- especially the Classic Fantasy Lizardmen! You know it's the good kind of classic fantasy when the lizardmen come with assault rifles and gas masks...

For my first effort, I chose a lizard dude with an open pose and a blade. I dropped it once and broke the index finger... Here's the result! There are still some rough patches, but overall, it was a fun process, and I'm satisfied with the result! Beware the Newt-men of Carcosa!

Cosmic Crawl

Cosmic Crawl is a group-sourced Lovecraftian cosmic horror setting book, drawn, written / compiled by Evlyn Moreau of the Chromatic Cauldron! I contributed some bits and pieces to it, and I'm very happy that now it's all finished.

You can find the awesome complete pdf here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pTD1XBhuDinUHmURtH4QKnz-9dU-7V5i/view

Sir Leo Wooldrich, occult investigator

In the early 1970s, there was a comics magazine called Dracula. It featured Spanish comics translated into English. Not about Dracula, though. They featured original genre / pulp heroes, like the sword & sorcery warrior Wolff, the sword & planet / science fantasy Agar Agar, and Sir Leo, "an English aristocrat - a hunter of evil. A man whose life is dedicated to the destruction of those nameless horrors that threaten mankind".

The stories were all presented with lush psychedelic art, swirling colors and grotesque imagery. Personally, I really dig the fusion of horror with trippy 1970s aesthetics (Dracula AD 1972 will always be dear to me...)

The stories about Sir Leo (or Sir Leo Wooldrich) were drawn by José Beá, and, damn, they look amazing!!

[Swamp '70] George Rodrigue paintings

The paintings of George Rodrigue (1944-2013), depicting life in rural Louisiana have an eerie, haunting quality to them... Definitely inspiring. Check out the site of Wendy Rodrigue (the artist's wife), it has background info on several paintings.

Aioli Dinner (1971)

Doc Moses, Cajun Traiteur (1974)

"A traiteur is a Cajun folk doctor with a special, inherited gift for healing one ailment. In George’s painting, Doc Moses heals earaches. He pours a ring of salt around the patient and touches his ears. Amazingly, only the healer must believe. The patient’s skepticism does not affect the cure." (source)

The Cajun Bride of Oak Alley (1974)

"In 1850, on the occasion of the simultaneous weddings of his two daughters, Durand’s slaves decorated the arboreal alley in a manner befitting his most eccentric nature. Prolific web-spinning spiders were brought in (some say from the nearby Atchafalaya Basin, others say from as far away as China) and were released in the trees to go about their arachnidan business. Then slaves went to their task of coating the dewy, billowing webs with gold and silver dust blown from bellows. And under this splendidly shimmering canopy proceeded the ethereal promenade of the wedding party and its two thousand guests." (source)