I’m really happy with how the Highwayman turned out! There are some specific details that I really love directing attention to like the eyes, the face and the scarf. It all starts today with one of the heroes that players can choose to dive into dungeons with: the Highwayman! What I Like I can’t yet promise they’ll arrive at a specific cadence, but I want to post the work I put into it here on my blog. You can expect a lot posts recording this herculean effort. Knowing that I spent a lot of money on the game and I’ve also spent two years waiting for it to finally arrive at my door, I’m pretty set on painting everything. I certainly got what I asked for! There are 138 miniatures included in the Core box of the game, another 42 in the Crimson Court expansion, and oh so very many more in the other four expansions set to be released during Wave 2. Three trays of minis make up the Core box alone. The sheer size of the game is astounding. October 2020 would have been a year and a half into my miniature painting hobby, and I knew that I really wanted those minis. I backed the Kickstarter for a lot of reasons, but my love of the Darkest Dungeon video game and the beautiful translation from screen to miniatures sold me pretty early in the crowdfunding campaign. After two years of waiting, multiple delays (normal for Kickstarter), and an unexpected additional shipping fee (probably not as normal), it’s finally here!

On Black Friday I finally received my copy of the Darkest Dungeon board game that I backed on Kickstarter in 2020.

Teaching this semester along with coaching speech and Hearthstone has kept me quite busy to the point of barely even finishing any video games lately. I’m back! It’s been a hot second since I last posted my painted Ghost Spider, but I honestly just haven’t been allocating much time to miniature painting over the past few months.

Darkest dungeon wolves at the door song