Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5

Would you like some Lion nuts with your beer?

The biggest and baddest Tabletop Kickstarter ever.  12 Million dollars?  YEP!  Kingdom Death known for their boutique horror miniatures made a game called Monster.  The latest release is version 1.5.  19lbs. of adventuring goodness.

I am one of the crazy people that bought into the game and I am extremely excited to play it.  The biggest draw for me as a hobby painter/modeller is the sheer amount of miniatures that come with the game.  You have to assemble your starting 4 and the first monster before you can even play the game.    The sculpts are so amazing and so detailed it is very intimidating to me as a novice painter not that I don't know how to paint them.  It's just that I fear I cannot do the sculpt justice.

The game itself plays 1-4 players in a series of Lantern Years.  In it players will hunt quarry to harvest materials they then use in the Settlement phase.  This phase is where you will develop your town and civilization with everything from fighting arts, religion, how you treat the dead, its very very granular.  There are many perils though in this universe and there is no guarantee that even your settlement will survive.  As your settlement and survivors make it deeper in the Lantern Years, more difficult enemies and nemesis will appear.  Just don't get attached to your character because they will die; it is a horror game after all, its ok though if you have been developing your civilization you can get another victim volunteer from town.

Tempted to turn this into a Lamp.

Ready for a dish soap bath, toothbrushing and then off to priming.

Unarmored Survivors ready for posing!  I need to channel all my Gunpla skills!

Not a KDM Game Piece but a Kingdom Death Pinup Sculpt - Base colours down - weeks to go! 

Ta Da!!!  

More Painting and Journal to come!