A couple of weeks ago I completed the Mine Doorways from the Shadows of Brimstone: Doorways Into Darkness set. This weekend, I painted the other half of that boxed set – the OtherWorld Doorways.
Once again, they’re pretty simple models, but nice enough for what they are. I took some inspiration from their suggested painting guide insofar as the greenish hue to the lower parts of the portal-like doorways, though I decided to paint the runes in a bright (glowing) green. I didn’t bother with OSL effects, because they’re good enough as is for boardgame doorways or potential wargame/roleplaying scenery items – as portals/etc. They certainly pass the four-foot test.
Another boxed accessory set complete!
Our scale models for the Doorways into Darkness are a trio of Conan’s Black Dragon bodyguards.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
I like the colours you used
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Thank you – i have to admit that I took inspiration from their painted ones in the guide that came with the kit. I wouldn’t have thought of the gradient of green-grey for the stone arches.
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It looks amazing.
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Simple they might be but they still need painting well. Great stuff.
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Thanks! If I ever get around to playing Shadows of Brimstone it’s probably going to be quite a good looking game on the tabletop!
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I really like those doors, all I have right now are the old Warhammer Quest doorways.
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To be fair, those are pretty cool as well – and I wish I had a few!
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Tidy job mate, those runes look way better for the extra attention
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Thank you Alex – they caused a little consternation as I struggled to decide what colour to paint them, but the bright glowy green seems to have worked better than too-much-contrast red.
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You’ve done well with them Sir
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Cheers, IRO!
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They look nice, great to have for any dungeon adventurer. The Black Dragon Guards look great! I have not touched my Conan set in too long 😦
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Yeah, I think they have potential to work quite well across a lot of games from the Warhams to many RPGs as well as a lot of skirmish and narrative games. I look forward to when you get back around to Conan again. I’m doing the add-on boxes before I go to the main ones – mostly because I can dispose of the smaller ones!
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Looking very nice and creepy! Don’t think I’d want to tangle with whatever came out of one of those!
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Thanks Alexis. Chaos Portals for Silver Tower as well, perhaps!
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Yeah, they could be great in Silver Tower. They’d also be a good base for something like Monkeychuka’s Portal of Despair: http://monkeychuka.blogspot.com/2016/05/portal-of-despair-finished.html
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Damn, that’s an amazing piece of work he’s done there! Yeah, these would work really well for something like that.
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Fantastic work, and an effective colour scheme!
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Thanks mate! I’m happy with how well they turned out!
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Nice! Agree with above on the colors, who made the fluorescent green? I’ve been using Vallejo Mecha Fluorescent Green, is it that?
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it’s Vallejo Model Colour flouro green, which may well be the exact same stuff as Mecha. Unfortunately, now you’ve let me know that the Mecha paints are a thing that exist, so I’m going to have to see what’s available there and no doubt buy some!
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They are designed for airbrushes, but I also use them for brushwork. Nice and thin.
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Sounds similar to Model/Game Air.
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I think so – I think that they might be thinner – aiming at the Mecha/Gundam market. My Frog Commandos green paints were almost all from this range
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I’d guess the consistency would be much the same as the existing Air ranges (they are, after all, designed for Airbrush) but with a more Gundam-oriented choice of palette aimed at that market, as you say.
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Great job on those. Seeing them next to your models though, really shines. I’d swear that pic was an ad from a magazine.
I just checked my Paint app, and looks like I don’t have that fluorescent green. Odd, because I know I have something similar. I do have VMA Fluorescent Air, and it was crap for brushing on. I guess it might be good for some spot red glowy effects, but I can’t imagine loading up my airbrush just for that.
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You’re too kind once again. The flouro paints aren’t amazing to use, and I did paint in all of those areas with white before going over them with the flouro to ensure that they would pop (or at least be seen!)
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