Last year when I started to burn out and stopped blogging regularly, I still spent a few weeks where I was regularly painting. So now I’m working my way through the models that have been sitting out in the War Room waiting to be photographed, the ones that got photographed but then forgotten about and the ones that didn’t get photographed at all, and trying to work out which month they were completed in, and how they fit into the timeline.
Today’s catch-up post features the Aethervoid Pendulum model from the AoS Malign Sorcery box set. I’d question if these were still Contrast Paint “experiments” this far along the line, but looking at the paint, I can see that I was definitely using this as an experimental model – learning to do fire transitions using these paints, and then a post-contrast highlight on the “raised” side edges.
High Elves provide scale. And also fit the colour scheme.
GW’s version of this model has black “flames”, which I guess fits the AetherVOID part of the name, but I also felt that the scheme looked kinda lame, and I much prefer the more traditional fire look. So I went with that regardless – and also because learn2fire on something simpler than some of the other more complex models of this type so I’m hopefully decent at it before I get to those…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great effect on the flames mate, and much prefer your colours over GW’s
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Thanks Dave. I’ve seen some good ones with greenish flames as well, so maybe that can be for one down the line. 🙂
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Loving the flames mate, they look fab.
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Cheers mate – I appreciate it!
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Top draw mate
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Thanks Alex!
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Crikey, that’s bigger than you think at first! Very nice! I think the traditional approach to flames, as you’ve done, looks spot on! 🙂
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Cheers, John. They are pretty big – they’ll look pretty intimidating on the tabletop if I ever get around to using them in a game! 😉
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As John says, much bigger than you first think, and then you place those High Elves in the shot, and it’s like, ‘Cor, that’s a big chopper!’
Great stuff, mate, and those Elves are fantastic too!
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Thanks Mate. I do need to get back to the Elves at some stage as well. I’ve got another unit that I started at the same time several years ago that have been stalled ever since…
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Nicely done and a reminder that I have still not delved into contrast paints yet. Something I must look into if I can find a supplier who isn’t in lock down yet.
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I know the retailers are doing it tough right now in the UK. I’m sure they’d appreciate selling you some paints if you could find one with stock doing the mail orders. 🙂
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I’ve got 4 orders out currently. The online shops are open albeit only just but they themselves aren’t getting their deliveries. Vicious circle right now but nothing you can do but play your part and stay in.
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Bastards! How dare they inconvenience our hobby time in the middle of a global pandemic!
Looks like my clever plan to Doomsday Prep not with food or even toilet paper, but with hobby supplies has paid off!
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Bloody amazing mate ,love it !
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Thank you, Pat!
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Nice, I’ve been really curious what other painters do with Contrast. Wudu has done a few experiments. I released a post today on some stuff I did. Though it was less successful. I did manage a flame effect, which Contrast paints were just perfect for. Though I have to wait to get some more stuff done, before I show those off.
Did you end up using Contrast paints for some of the metal too?
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Thanks, I’ll check out your post today. That’s the thing about Contrasts, seeing what other people do with them is useful but really you need to use them yourself to get the “feel” of them. The metal was done in the usual way – a variety of metallic paints with Dark Tone.
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Love the flame effect.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete – thanks! 🙂
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Many people struggle to paint flames (I think the key is glazing which most people don’t have the patience for) and the effect you got with Contrast paint in way less time is really impressive. I agree that black on the tips of fire isn’t all that realistic so I think you made the right call skipping that as well. This is a great looking piece and excellent work all around as usual! 🙂
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Well, glazing or just using multiple thin coats and/or blending. Contrast paints (in this case, anyway) are essentially a different form of glazing. I did a little bit of almost-black on the tips of the fire (you *can* see it sometimes on fire – though not on your stove, but on wood fires, etc) but the GW one was basically black flame. 🙂
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You can tell I still haven’t messed around much with Contrast paints (still) because I didn’t realize that. I do intend to give them a try as soon as I can find a good reason to do so. I also somehow missed the black tips on your fire. Too often, it is overdone and that is what I think doesn’t look good. I like to think I didn’t see the black tips is because it is smoothly blended into the lighter colors 🙂
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No worries – I don’t like it when it’s overdone either – and it can often look like that on smaller models/flames. Think of Contrast paints as a spectrum that goes between a heavy glaze and a heavy wash. I almost always use some of the Contrast Medium when I’m painting things with them, unless I’m just being lazy and grabbing them to put over brown for a leather look or something like that.
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