A quick one today, we have the Umbral Spellportal(s) from the AoS Maligh Sorcery box set, which I am (VERY) slowly working my way through…
The paintjobs were pretty straightforward, even if they took me forever because I was being pretty careful. This time it was a sprayed base coat of Grey Seer, with a zenithal overspray with white. Contrast Aethermatic Blue (diluted with medium) over the top of that, one side at a time laid flat and not glued to the base to get that depth rather than havint he contrast all go down to the bottom of the models. Careful down-only drybrush with white to re-highlight the “tops” of the “flames”. Varnished to protect the WIP, then the gold was carefully picked out, then washed, drybrushed, and then job done. Shame it took me about three months to get them done.
Baturally, it wasn’t until I was writing the post when I looked up their effects (and the names of the bloody things, to be quite honest) and found that they’re actually spell portals rather than people portals, so the Khorne guys above are using them incorrectly to shoot ahead by about 12 feet. Ah well. I’ll live.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nice painting, and I have to admit I had no idea they were not ‘people portals’. Do they extend the range of your spells or something?
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Exactly that, it seems. The caster stands within an inch of one of them and draws their range/LOS from the other one. Just like in the game Portal.
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Too right those Khorne warriors are using that incorrectly, they’re messing around with magic when they should be hunting down the wizard responsible! 😛 Seriously, you’ve done a lovely job on those, the spell effect looks great (and the photo at the bottom is very clever).
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Well, they were hoping to find the sorceror inside the portal, but no luck – so they’re instead using it to get to the caster faster!
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Straightforward paint job maybe, but they look great.
The Aethermatic Blue was a really good choice of colour, and staring at those ever-decreasing circles is quite mesmerising!
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Yeah, I looked at their box art, and then at my Contrast paints, and Aethermatic Blue was the winner. Not exactly the same colour, but close enough and I think this colour looks a little better.
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Great work on the spells, wouldn’t have known they weren’t people portals until you said, but would work great as that in other games
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Yeah, I’ll happily use them for that when and as needed. Also in scenarios, etc.
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Well you might have been able to do them quicker but I cannot see how you could have done them better. The end result is excellent.
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Thanks – the main improvement I could see would be doing some OSL/glow on the gold of the mirror and/or the ground. But frankly, fuck that. I ain’t got time for that sort of thing on models like these. 🙂
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Very cool 😎
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Cheers, Alex!
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I could not have put it better than TIM! Brilliant!
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Thank you, John!
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Khorne Warriors: “If the stupid spells can get through there, we can too! For the blood god!” *crashes into spellportal. breaks nose*
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You know, I like that narrative even better than the one I posted and then presented to Wudu above! 🙂
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There haven’t been a ton of Warhammer Age of Sigmar sculpts I like in the last year or so but the one thing that has looked good are the spells and terrain. I don’t have a use for any of it but I love to see it nicely painted up like you’ve done here. Always nice to knock something out of the backlog that’s been kicking around a long time too!
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OOHH mate they are so good ! I don’t swoon very often but I have now !
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Nice work- drying flat really worked well on those models.
Cheers,
Pete.
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How are you finding the contrast paints?
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They could took 3 months to be completed, but they look great.
Also, Spells and Khorne dudes should not be in the same image unless a dying wizard is also there =)
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