Showcase: Dark Souls Gaping Dragon

 

Heyhey, it's time for some Dark Souls. This time it's just one figure, but it's a special one - the Gaping Dragon, from the Dark Souls boardgame expansion of the same name.

Showcase: Dark Souls Vordt of the Boreal Valley

 

Just a quick one today - Vordt of the Boreal Valley! A boss for the Dark Souls board game. 

Showcase: Characters Expansion

Heyhey, it's Dark Souls time again. This time it's a load of characters. 

Showcase: Old Iron King

 

Here's the Old Iron King! Yes, it's another Dark Souls boss.

Big dude, big base, waist-deep in lava. Hero figures for scale. :)

Hope you like him!

Showcase: Black Dragon Kalameet

 

Black Dragon Kalameet! One of the Mega-Bosses of the Dark Souls board game.

As with so many Dark Souls bosses, a bit hard to pin down visually. Takes some research and interpretation, but I think I got it.

As usual with those bosses, I try to get the base (which is huge, by the way. All the more space to play around) 'right' and get the idea of the boss arena across.

A good dragon figure, that. It's funny that a game which tends to have pretty outlandish boss fight designs has a very keen sense for getting dragons right. Which is a thing I appreciate. Hope you like him! 

Showcase: Explorers Expansion

 

Yes, another Dark Souls board game expansion! Above you can see a little comic strip I made, because this one contains the Mimic, and Mimics are endless sources of joy.

Showcase: Ironkeep Expansion

 

Here's another Dark Souls board game expansion - Ironkeep. It sports a whole bunch of knights - heavily armoured as well as (annoyingly) nimble, ...

...a big old Smelter Demon for a boss and fanciful swordman Sir Alonne as a mini-boss. 

Nothing all too exciting on the painting front; Painting knights is always fun. With Sir Alonne it was kinda hard to decypher how his garments work, as with so many humanoid bosses in Dark Souls. Hope you like them!

Showcase: Asylum Demon

 

Look at him! It's the Asylum Demon and he feels a-okay. 

Famously the first boss in Dark Souls and usually he shows new players what's what.

This one's from the Asylum Demon expansion for the Dark Souls board game and a fine depiction of the fine fella in 3d miniature form. Hope you like him! (and how couldn't you)

Showcase: Dark Souls Darkroot Expansion

 

Heyhey, here's more board games goodness. Again fantasy, again dungeon crawling, but a wholly different visual style - it's the Darkroot expansion for the Dark Souls board game!

Showcase: Stone Guardians, Knight Artorias and Sif!

 

Heyhey, here's more Dark Souls figures! Knight Artorias, one of the fan favourites due to his tragic backstory and his good doggo, who picked up his master's sword to  guard his grave and be one hard as nails boss in Dark Souls - Geat Wolf Sif.

Showcase: Dark Souls' Winged Knight & Sentinels

 

Another fan favourite! Who doesn't love the Winged Knight. And look at how straight his halbeard is too. Lovely. I added the golden yellow freehand on his tabard, so he looks proper.

In the second picture you can see his Sentinel pals. 

Hope you like the big lads!

Showcase: Dark Souls' Titanite Demon & Friends

 

Heyhey, time for more Dark Soulsian baddies. Here's the Titanite Demon and several enemies straight from the High Walls of Lothric. I reinstalled Dark Souls 3 just to research the look of these enemies. Because I take my job seriously, damnit!

The funny thing about Dark Souls (the video games) is that they very, very much rely on lighting for the look of the enemies. Which is something that doesn't translate all that well onto miniature. Even in large screenshots or videos it can be hard to figure out what colour something is supposed to be. And still, I had to apply some creative freedom to add at least some colour in those faded blues and greens, mainly to help tell the enemies apart on the board. I also did my best to put the ragged, torn, and very 'spotty' look onto the figures.

One of the many screenshots taken by yours truly.

Anyway, I like them. Hope you do too!

Showcase: Dark Souls' Heroes

Today we'll look at the lovely character figures from the Dark Souls board game: Assassin, Knight, Herald and Warrior.

I did my best to retain the colours of the original pieces of starting equipment in the video games. That meant I had to add the design on the Herald's (halbeard, tan cloak) shield free-hand. The design on the Knight's shield (on his back) came cast onto the figure.

Hope you like them!

 

Showcase: Dark Souls' Ornstein & Smough

 

Here's the first post in a series on the Dark Souls boardgame. I'm starting with an iconic odd couple, Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough.