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My copy of Compendium I has much thinner paper for the cover and just doesn’t have the slick design and manufacturing of the newer versions. I don’t know if they ever printed a nicer version in English or French. 

Not to rub salt in the wounds of those who haven’t received their copies of the new Compendiums yet, but I got mine and they are awesome. Very nice job on the printing, with thick covers and pages. Lots of great art, articles, and scenarios. My crew and I will be trying out one of the new Conan scenarios tonight. Thanks to Monolith and all the various contributors!!

Nice work, as always @garbetsp!

@rhogg27184, can’t wait to see what you wind up doing with the MB minis. Your Conan work has been excellent, no doubt you’ll knock it out of the park with MB as well. I’m getting close to having the base game minis painted, so it will probably be ready around the time the 1.5 version arrives, and then we will finally be able to actually try playing this game! 

Nice work @Not Quite Dead! Looks like a fun game. 

Wow. @Narthor, these look fantastic! I didn’t pull the trigger on Batman, since I already have such a backlog of minis to paint, and I’m really not a huge Batman fan. The game looks great though, and I’m definitely jealous of the plastic trays for holding the character cards - I wish Conan had come with something like those... Keep sharing your work please, it is very impressive stuff. 

Some Work-in-Progress shots as I wrap up painting the storied God of War in miniature form... I really like this sculpt, and I have been trying to up my game with these larger MB figures. Trying some new techniques here and there. I have trouble making a large smooth surface look good with a layer of ink wash. It often looks messy and splotchy. So, for Ares’ cape and, um, skirt(?), I painted them with a darker tone as a base layer and then I just layered and dry brushed the highlights, skipping the ink wash step all together... Very happy with him so far, maybe the best mini I’ve painted in the couple years I’ve been doing it. 

Another great mini from this game. The right choice was made to keep the depiction more classic in nature with such an important member of the Pantheon. He looks just right. 

It’s all about the owl on this one. At least for me... 🙂

Usual disclaimers apply; I’m painting for the table, not a display case, and I’m always trying to follow the game art as best I can. 

Kinda rough paint job in some areas. I over shaded her in areas and then picked the worst brush I could have to do some of the dry brushing. I might do some more work to rescue her, but I’m trying to keep a good pace getting MB finished and table ready. 

12 hours ago, Bremic said:

My complaint is I got a message saying "Whoops the shipping is $300, that's a mistake and we are working on a solution; don't order and we will let you know when we have the solution. In the meantime here is a pdf option, but there will be a solution." Then there wasn't a solution.

I would have ordered the pdf if I had known the offered solution wasn't actually going to eventuate, but I wanted the physical because it supposedly was coming with cards and stuff, and printing cards that match the game stock is really expensive in the places that this wasn't shipping to.

I would happily have paid $20 shipping for this thing, even possibly $30 because I like the products; the complaint is just I was waiting for the next update which didn't happen and then it was suddenly too late.

Ah, I see. That is a bummer for all the fans outside of the US and Europe. The end date was clear from the outset, but I agree that as we approached April 19th Monolith should have openly communicated that they did not find a better shipping option for other territories, if only to help remind people that they’d need to at least order their PDF version before the deadline.  Hopefully more new issues are produced in the future and then Monolith can again offer all the issues to backers/fans. Communication is key, and I concur that Monolith could always improve on that front. 

I guess I’ll share this old WIP picture of my Primitive. I think I worked him a little more after this, and I’m not overly thrilled with this paint job. If I recall, I was in the home stretch for the base game and KS exclusive stuff and I was moving really fast. 

I almost always prime a solid white layer unless the final mini demands a black primer (like Cerberus or the aliens in Intruder), and then when the minis needs a white color it’s already there. For example, with the skeletons and mummies from Conan, the bones and bandages were already base-coated and just needed some ink wash for me to be happy. I found the mummies to be super easy to paint for this game. Flesh, swords, skirt, shade it all, done. 

@Matt John S, It seems like a random smattering of older pics are missing. At least when I look at the topic on a mobile device. Look at the thread for ‘Show Your Conan’. Some are there, many simply show a file name and no pics...?

By the musk of Crom’s short and curlys, he looks awesome @Not Quite Dead! I’m not terribly thrilled with my painted version of the Dark Demon, and he’s not really one of my favorite minis in the game (kind of cartoony for my tastes), but you’ve made him look damn fierce and interesting. I think you nailed the trick with painting black minis, kind of a reverse of most minis, the shading is already done after the basecoat and one just needs to attend to the highlights. Great work!

@Not Quite Dead, yeah black is kinda tricky. I’m no expert, but I’ve had some decent results by relying on highlighting/dry brushing. Either prime or basecoat the minis in black, and then dry brush all the raised sections with a lighter color. Something in the blue range seems to work and compliment the black. For Cerberus I mixed Vallejo Azure (kind of a muted, greyish blue) with a tiny touch of black, and then simply dry brushed his face and body. It worked great on the Crows in the Nordheim expansion too. I wouldn’t look at my Dark Demon as a success (he turned out pretty sloppy), but that’s pretty much what I did with him too. Any experts out there want to weigh in? 

@SentMa, @Matt John S... Seems like pictures from many older posts are missing. Is there something going on with the website?

Incredibly satisfying to have such a large mini that is so damn easy to paint. It took me about an hour to have this guy basically done. I fiddled about for a little longer to try and tweak him, but there wasn’t much else to do. Black primer, some dark blue dry brushing and then just a few details. Obviously an expert level painter can go much further with such an nice model, but I’m trying to wrap up my MB stuff before the 1.5 update arrives. Hmm... maybe Atlas or the Hoplites next?

Monolith was very straightforward about the offer. The pledge manager was only going to be open for a short time, and they responded to the demand for a PDF version by making that an option. People complained about the cheap shipping on the first Compendiums, so they offered better shipping with tracking this time, so people complained about the price, and thusly they absolutely DID offer a cheap PDF option. Now people are finding new things to be upset over?  It really seems that Monolith can only do wrong by some as they try to offer after-campaign support for their games. What exactly is the complaint here? 

He looks awesome @garbetsp!

Another fantastic mini from MB! They’ve added a lot of awesome flair to so many of these mythological characters which really makes them stand out as unique, despite the fact that these creatures have been depicted a million times already in historical and pop culture.

As usual, painting for the game table, and generally following the game art for color schemes (difficult to do as the game art has so many lighting effects)...

Went a little more vibrant than the game art. Given that I have usually kinda sucked at painting the ladies in my mini-based games, I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. Another great sculpt from this game. I don’t think there is a single weak mini in the box. So fantastic!

That’s a very good point @Not Quite Dead, he would look better with a different skin tone. Again, as I always do, I was trying to follow the game art and in this case Hades actually seemed to have a fairly normal skin tone. I do have quite a few regrets and disappointments with how he turned out. I’d do him a bit different if I was to paint him again. Not so much with the color choices, but my overall technique. He hit my table after a fairly long break from painting. He was also probably the largest mini I’ve ever painted and so I learned that techniques which work fine on a typical mini needs to be altered with the larger scale. It’s one of the reasons I picked him as the first, big, God ‘mini’ I tackled. His game art shows him as dirty and rough. I’ve always found monsters, zombies, and bloody/dirty warriors to be so much easier to paint because they are much more forgiving. However, with so many large and ‘clean’ looking minis in Mythic Battles, I definitely need to step up my game and master some new skills. I’m currently painting the Amazons, and although they are standard scale, they have been a good subject for me as I practice developing a lighter touch and some new methods. Pics of them soon!

And c’mon out there! Let’s see some of your MB minis! I still have hope that we can make this English version of The Overlord a more energetic and bustling community. I’m not planning to go back on Facebook anytime soon, my life and mental health has been WAY better these past 4 years without it, so this forum and BGG have been a great place to connect with likeminded peeps without all the extraneous clutter, poisonous attitude, and aggravation of most social media platforms. Let’s keep it alive and help it thrive by participating!! (mic drop)...

Forgot to spin him around for a shield view...

Nice work!

I put all my Witch-Hunters in one category here, ‘Puff, puff, pass... Share Your Kush’... Maybe I’m trying to hard to make all the titles into puns. Next time Conan comes out of the box for game night I’ll try to snap some individual shots.