Dark Souls Project I

Unless you've been living under a rock you saw the Dark Souls miniatures kickstarter. Supposedly theres a game to be played there as well but all I saw was hundreds of beautiful miniatures made for a game series I love. I have... A LOT of these miniatures. I may have procured a ridiculous amount of the box sets, expansions and stand alone boss models through the kickstarter.

Its probably going to be a couple of years before I get my hands on these but I'm already preparing things. I want to reproduce the models in game looks as accurately as possible. I'm working on two steps to start with: collecting hi res glossy jpegs of all the in game models, and cataloging a bunch of awesome tutorials that pertain to painting the variety of materials of the monster collection.

Here's a list of what I'll be painting:

Bosses:

Dancer of the Boreal Valley

Ornstein and Smough

The Pursuer

Sir Alonne

Smelter Demon

Sif, Great Grey Wolf

Artorias

Gaping Dragon

Black Dragon Kalameet

Guardian Dragon

Four Kings

Asylum Demon

Old Iron King

Last Giant

Manus, Father of the Abyss

Executioner's Chariot

Mini Bosses:

Titanite

Frost Knight

Invader

Winged Knight

Gargoyle

Grunts:

Hulking Hollow

Crossbow Hollow

Armoured Hollow

Fire Bomb Hollow

Silver Knight Archer

Silver Knight Swordsman

Silver Knight Lancer

Sentinel

Alonne Sword Knight

Alonne Knight Captains

Alonne Bow Knights

Ironclad Soldiers

Mimic

Crystal Lizard

Plough Scarecrow

Shears Scarecrow

Demonic Foliage

Stone Guardian

Stone Knight

Mushroom Parent & Child

Player Characters:

Assassin

Cleric

Deprived

Herald

Knight

Mercenary

Pyromancer

Sorcerer

Thief

Warrior

Armour Sets:

Adventurer

Black Iron

Black Knight

Catarina

Crimson

Dark

Gaurdian

Gold Hemmed Black

Havel's

Set of Favor

Invaders:

Armourer Dennis

Fencer Sharon

Kirk, Knight of Thorns

Maldron the Assassin

Maneater Mildred

Marvellous Chester

Melinda the Butcher

Oliver the Collector

Paladin Leeroy

Xanthous King Jeramiah

Summons:

Eygon of Carim

Horace the Hushed

Lucatiel Mirrah

Ruined Aflis

Seigward of Catarina

Sellsword Luet

Sirris of the Sunless Realm

Sword Master Saber

Witch Beatrice

I have a lot of things to learn before this stuff turns up! 

With the Invader and Summons models, I'm caught between painting them as they appear in game (the red/black and white/grey appearances respectively) or painting them as they appear in their own worlds. 

Time to collect hundreds of pictures and tutorials.