Steve - Lady of Deathly Shadows & a Gnoll

  Heya  tiny totem painters,

This week, from the array of partly painted minis strewn across my hobby desk, these few finally received their last dabs of long due paint. 

I think I picked up this lead mini (who I choose to call the  Lady of Deathly Shadows), a log time ago with a notion of using her as a proxy model for a Necromancer in an Undead Warhammer Fantasy Battle Army.  No idea the manufacture, but I recall this mini was sold to me in a little plastic bag stapled to a simple card board backing, which I had found hanging off one of the pegs at the back bottom corner of the miniatures wall at my favorite old hobby store.

I had several failed paint jobs attempted on this mini, bad color schemes and poor observance of paint lines resulted in this mini spending a few nights in a jar full of oven cleaner to strip away failure and make way for a new paint attempt.

Now at long at last, years later, in the AHPC 'Black and White' studio a silent short film was shot to tell the tale about how she escaped the clutching darkness deep within the old pile of abandoned minis. the color scheme she needed to find freedom was a scheme without true color.

Where one finds a path out of darkness, (or an old unpainted mini pile) others may follow, so it was  this Gnoll escaped the old mini pile and moved beyond the years of wearing only a black and white zenithal base coat to become  table top ready.

I think I bought the Gnoll for a D&D Monster Character campaign, which I think may have lasted two rough and bumpy game sessions at most, back when in my old game circle the DM's hat was getting passed around and there was a lot of home brew that went down like bad brew before a worthy story teller became the new king behind the DM's screen to reign over a long running campaign that has brew without the p-eew.

Lurking around these two mini  are three bits of Grave stone scatter terrain, each originally an extra scenery item that had been packed along with some manner of mystery brand undead mini.  These three grave markers served in many a game with no more than a blast of black spray paint, and on a whim of fancy are now painted to better serve on table top games in future.  

28mm figures,

Lady Of Deathly Shadows (Foot Figure)                            = 5pts 
Green Studio Pass 'Black & White'                                   = 20pts
Gnoll (Foot Figure)                                                            = 5 pts
Gravestones (Scatter Terrain) [~ 1/8 of a 6" square cube] =  2pts 
Total = 32 Points