My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

My biggest issue is the app. It's one thing to have an app that serves to expand a playable game, but to have the game entirely dependent on the app is not cool in my mind. Am I the only one concerned that the game will be unplayable after Armageddon? What am I supposed to do with this game when I'm sitting on a pile of ashes with no electricity??? (and yes, I am serious)

Seems I missed posting a couple more to this thread. First, Merick Farrow:

And most recently, Jain Fairwood:

 
Please let me know what you think, and check out my blog for more details and pictures: https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Seems I missed posting a couple more to this thread. First, Merick Farrow:

And most recently, Jain Fairwood:

 
Please let me know what you think, and check out my blog for more details and pictures: https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Managed to finish another one, this time it's Widow Tarha from the core box. As always, more details and pics at my blog, https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Let me know what you think. More coming soon!

Back again, this time with a Core Set lieutenant. The least threatening boss ever!!! Lady Eliza Farrow. Not a whole lot to work with on this one, but she is what she is.
More pics at my blog, as always: https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Let me know what you think.

Seems I missed posting a couple more to this thread. First, Merick Farrow:

And most recently, Jain Fairwood:

 
Please let me know what you think, and check out my blog for more details and pictures: https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Thanks for the kind words. If I consider the Descent collection a ten year project, painting all of the minis might be more realistic. I hope that I'll have as much interest in 10 years in playing the game as I have now. 😉 For such an elaborate painting project, interest in playing the game is somewhat a driving factor for me. That being said, I can well see me finding some group interested in running a campaign many years from now. It's not that good board games age poorly and Descent 2nd Ed., despite its flaws, is pretty good at what it does. 
As for colors, if you do actually intend on painting up a complete collection as diverse  as the Descent one and start from square one in terms of painting equipment, I'd honestly recommend going for a full set of Vallejo Game colors. Specifically the linked case, if you can get your hands on one and if money isn't the limiting factor, that is. Bonus: you get a rather space efficient and elegant storage solution on top of the paints. You're really trading time for money here. The Descent collection is varied enough that you'll find a use for nearly all of those colors before long. A (near) complete set saves you from hunting them down one by one. While I'm fan of the Vallejo colors, a cheaper option would be the Army Painter set. But my impression is that Vallejo Colors provide much better coverage with less layers, so I prefer them where possible. You just need to know for sure that painting minis is "your thing" before spending near 200$ on colors. 😅 At least there are some brushes in there, but I doubt that they'll last for the whole collection and a really good brush is around 10$ in itself. You don't even have primer sprays by then, although the grey Vallejo brush on primer is really good as well. 
A cheaper route to getting started is a color set (very much recommend the base set from Vallejo Game Color here, comes with 16 tones, but not a single good skin tone 😛), then get two good brushes (one size 0 and one size 2) and a grey primer spray.
When I took up painting again around April last year, I still had some old Games Workshop colors (some dried to a pulp), a black and a white can of spray primer and a couple of Vallejo colors. Got the Vallejo starter set, some new brushes, liquidified some of the GW colors by literally hacking them apart with a modeling tool and adding some water and went from there. This is where I am now (old wine box with a bit of cut up cardboard for organizing the dropper bottles): 



If I didn't have some colors to start out, I'd have been cheaper off buying the whole set. 😉

As for how fast you can finish a collection - that entirely depends on your pace and technique. I'm generally slow and tend to experiment quite a bit or fail at some details until I feel I got a mini right. On the other hand, I'm watching some Instagram painters (https://www.instagram.com/bossepainter/) paint up half of the complete Descent 2nd Ed. collection within a year (really excellently, I should add!), whereas it takes me just above a year alone to finish the base set. 😛
Edit: On that note - the last base game minis are finally finished.
Captain Glittersparkles (Avric Albright)

Leoric of the Book

Hello all,
Thought I would share some painted miniatures with you.  I have been working on several projects at once, so I don't have many Descent specific minis done yet.  I started with the Cave Spiders using some inspiration from the many examples that can be found on line.  Here they are in a group shot:

More information (and more minis) can be found on my blog:  https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/
 
Please take a second to comment, whether you like 'em or hate 'em.  I appreciate all feedback.  More to come soon, I hope.

Managed to finish another one, this time it's Widow Tarha from the core box. As always, more details and pics at my blog, https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Let me know what you think. More coming soon!

Managed to finish another one, this time it's Widow Tarha from the core box. As always, more details and pics at my blog, https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Let me know what you think. More coming soon!

Love the base design for your Shadow Dragons, especially the pinkish/purple base.

Love the base design for your Shadow Dragons, especially the pinkish/purple base.

Managed to finish another one, this time it's Widow Tarha from the core box. As always, more details and pics at my blog, https://darthtomsgaming.wordpress.com/

Let me know what you think. More coming soon!

Shadow of Nerekhall's rat swarms:
 

I finally finished the shadow dragons.











That concludes the base game monster groups. The bloody beasts for some reason nearly took all wind out of my sails in terms of painting. Happy enough with the result, but for various reasons I didn't enjoy painting them. They're comparatively large for starters and nearly completely consist of soft, rounded curves, which I found hard to highlight well. Also had to repaint the wings after realizing I just couldn't make my initial idea for them work and had  chosen a poor color combo.
Hopefully the four remaining base game heroes and lieutenants will be more enjoyable!