As part of “The Tray” I finished off another of the Endless Spells that have been hanging around part-painted for ages now. This one being the Quicksilver Swords. (Probably) No relation to Pietro Maximoff or Surfwear. A pretty complex model as a simple single piece cast from a simple concept, it’s a pretty good model, really. It’s on a 40mm base (I forgot – again – to take a shot alongside a model for scale reference) but it’s a pretty decently sized piece. I’ll have to do some Endless Spell group shots when I have a few more of them done…
Since I didn’t think much of the almost-white yellow ectoplasm-smoke-whatever in the official art, I instead opted for purple to add a bit of colour and a nice compliment to the gold of the swords’ hilts and pommels. I know I just showed off those purple leeches from reaper using a similar purple Contrast tone, but these were started months apart, and the purple Contrast parts were done ages ago as part of that. These sword had, well, the entirety of the swords to paint to get them finished, along with the base. So here we are. Basically, the colour of the ethereal mystic stuff is Contrast Magos Purple once again spot-diluted with Contrast Medium.
That’s it for today! Enjoy!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
I like it, and the Contrast medium clearly has a positive effect on the finished effect. I must pick some up for myself as I haven’t used it to date
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Cheers Dave. I couldn’t imagine using Contrast Paint without having the medium to hand. I don’t need to use it all the time, but it makes the paint SO much mroe versatile.
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Great looking spell mate, like all your colour choices on this one, they work well
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Cheers Dave, the purple is maybe a bit dull, but it does go off well against the gold. If I were to do it again I might make it a little stronger, but like the title says – “experiment”… 🙂
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Very nice – yeah, I need to get me some of that contrast medium…
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Definitely do so!
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Very nice effect you’ve got there, I don’t really get all these spell effect models (we never had them in my day) but they are rather impressive when painted so well!
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks mate. “In my day” made me chuckle, though, considering I’ve been doing this since the late 1980’s. 😀
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That looks cool- and rather nasty too.
One of the better spell models I think.
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Pete.
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Cheers Pete. Not sure how it works in the rules yet (haven’t played more than a couple of AoS games – and even then its been ages!) but they do look good!
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I agree the mediumed-down purple contrast worked well; neat looking miniature.
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Thanks Ann. I’m going to try and keep working my way through these things now and have at least one on each new tray I paint with.
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That’ll be cool to have a little, painted collection of those things. I’ve been thinking about doing some sort of weapon like that on a 25mm base now that my cleric just started using Spiritual Weapon a lot.
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Sounds like a plan. I’ve seen some of the Nolzur’s models have a translucent “trail” of.. something in them. Perhaps attaching a hammer/mace to one of those could be an interesting look? 🙂
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I agree with Pete above that this one of the better looking spells in my opinion. I’m sure part of that is due to your excellent painting skills! I do wonder how fragile that mini is since it is pretty tall and skinny but one thing is for sure, it will look great on any battlefield!
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Well, it’s pretty light and I think it’d stand up pretty well to normal game handling. If someone with ham hands accidently flattened it it would probably break, and a fall to the floor I could see bending or snapping some bits. So much the same as a lot of regular models of today, really!
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I’ve seen GW make some minis with very thin vertical bases and it makes me wonder how durable those are. Glad to hear that isn’t an issue here!
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The flying bases of old were the ones to really look out for!
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This mini is crazy ! Always an awesome painting.
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Thank you, mate!
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I really like the purple here – just curious as to how you spot diluted with the contrast medium? Any advice? Thanks
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Started with it thinned on a palette – with the contrast on one side and the medium on the other, mixed in the middle – that way I can dab on more from one side (more pigment) or the other (more medium) as needed. Also I did one flat side at a time and left it to dry lying down, so the pigment pooled in the depths of the sculpted detail and not at the bottom of the model.
Sometimes I literally just have the medium in a dropper bottle (I decant the stuff into a Vallejo bottle) with the lid off, ready to go and drop onto the model – as with the elementals the other week.
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Thanks- but do you apply it any differently with the brush other than what you describe? You have achieved a nice color flow here effect that I like.
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I guess thinning it a little before applying and then adding dabs of the medium while it’s all still wet where I want to thin the pigment. Just having both the paint and the medium on the palette so can I can work them as needed.
Think of it almost like getting a transition effect between a tan and a green on tank camo if you’re adding a bit of this and a bit of that while the paint is still wet to get a smooth transition.
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Nicely painted mate ,that’s interesting the way you put apply the medium.
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Thanks Pat, it’s really just playing around with it – and the result of having the paint start to dry and leave tide marks really quickly on some previous models so learning the hard way that I need the medium already out and instantly dab-able… 😀
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