Friday Talisman: The Pointer Sister

And so, at very long last, we reach a major milestone. I'd be lying if I said I'd saved the best for last - as always I struggle with painting eyes. I'm happy with her dress and hair, though. The original artwork puts more into her staff, including making the skull and feathers "real", rather than carved/sculpted, but I ultimately decided I needed the warm gold to offset the coldness of the purple and pale flesh (the warm reddy-pink also helps there, but only really from the back.

Anyway, we're not here for a single Lass of Evil. We're here for the whole kit and kaboodle. Here is all is, sixteen and a half years after I first bought it: a fully painted set of Talisman 4th Edition (2008) minis.

Good to get that done. Just three expansions and Assault On Black Reach, and I'll be done with every box set I got in my 20s.

Friday Talisman: A Blasphemy Against Nature

Today's toad - the fourth and last of the set - tickles me somewhat. After a few days of agonising over how to paint them, I was struck by revelation. Talisman is a fantasy game. I don't have to limit myself to the pathetic three hundred plus species of true toads. In the spirit of the hippogriff, the cockatrice, and the owlbear (HOOT GROWL), then, I present the strangest mix of animals yet imagined: a toad coloured as 'twere a frog.

I think I've done a good job here of at least nodding to the luminescence of the blue poison dart frog I've used as inspiration here. I got a bit annoyed about getting some Agrellan Earth on its legs, but even dusty earth is going to get on you a little if you're wondering around in it. Whether I not I decide to house rule this lad to make trying to attack him extremely dangerous decides to be seen. Like, in theory it should be fine, but you don't wanna be the first brave adventurer to kark it because you squished a lethally dangerous amphibian with a hand sporting a paper cut.