Vintage D&D minis

I've hit some stumbling blocks on my desert game and the 15mm wargaming in general. I seem to be lacking some creativity these last few weeks, so I'm getting back to basics to see if that will generate some ideas. I decided I would just paint some figures.

These are all Heritage figs from Der Kriegspielers Fantastiques (which have some of the best names for miniatures ever!)

Starting from the left -

Evil Hideous Skeleton Men 1155b

In The Darkness Before The Dawn Avoid The Bad Hairy Nude Things 1158

Wood Trolls of Mirk 1016

The first two are from the 1100 series and the troll is from the 1000 series of the Fantastiques. Both the skeleton and the BHNT have base dates of 1977 and although undated I'm pretty sure the troll would be from the same year. While these lack a lot of the sharp detailing of modern minis they have decent detail and definitely invoke an old school feel. 

All of these were hand brush primered with vallejo white primer, then washed with diluted vallejo black.

I lined in the crevices with vallejo black (undiluted), then highlited with vallejo white.

I then painted with Amsterdam inks and varnish coat to finish. I like to mix colors but flesh is tough so I did buy a flesh colored ink. The color is good but it doesn't cover as well as the other inks so theres more bleed thru than I would like. Multiple coats would help. 

I have a few more minis from Der Kreigspieler - a Tasmanian devil that has been primed and a Krot that is still in his original Humbrol covering that I painted back in 1978.