Guardians of the Icon

I had a good weekend of painting, moving ahead with my 'Dungeon Crawler' project. First up, I painted two skeletons from Reaper. These were part of one of their Bones Kickstarters, though I bought them from a reseller. In the past, I have been somewhat critical of the harder Reaper Bones material, but these painted up really well. Although, there seem to be so many different varieties of the Bones material now, it's hard to keep them straight. Anyway, the challenging part was cutting them off their integral bases and gluing them to GW style bases. I think these look a lot better in the dungeon with their uniformity and the way they sit perfectly in a square. I used the Army Painter 'Pallid Bone' speed paint for the bones, because honestly it does a better job than I could. The rest is painted with more traditional layers and washes. 

The little shrine was something I threw into my order not knowing what I would do with it. At first I thought it would be a tombstone, but I thought that would just look too plain. So, I decided to see if I could paint it like a medieval icon, an artform I've always been attracted to. I tried to copy a depiction of St. Nicholas that I found online. While I'm no great freehand painter, I think it came out really well. It'll make a striking little piece in the dungeon... and who knows what special properties it might have!