With the advent of Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery challenge rolling around again, I plucked this piece off the painting desk, buried in a pile of random things and decided to get it finished.
I’d given it a couple of thinned coats of Contrast previously, a greeny-blue of some sort on the ball and a bluey-green on the “flames and smoke”.
I took a look at the painted example of GW’s on their website and saw that they’d gone for essentially green and purple with their own scheme.
With that, I got some greens and purple paints and had a bit of a play with turning them into glazes of varying strengths and layering them over the contrast base to achieve something a little stronger than the typical contrast-only look. It was actually pretty relaxing in a lot of ways, and by the following afternoon (paint a bit, leave it to dry, do other things, come back later) the model just needed basing.
It kinda feels like I’m close to the end of this set, but when checking out the GW page for the box, it looks like I actually still have another 7 pieces still to build or paint – so 10 down, 7 more to go! Maybe I’ll get another one or two done before the Season of Scenery is done…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nice work on this one, mate! I think the glazes were well worth the patience as the whole thing gives off a proper ghostly vibe. I forget about these Endless Spells since I don’t play AoS and always find it interesting when you paint one up. Its like I’m seeing it for the first time in many cases 🙂
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Thank you! I forget about them a lot of the time since I haven’t played any proper Minis wargames since those couple of starter FoW games, but not really anything properly in quite a few years now. It mostly takes something like this challenge to motivate me to get them finished these days!
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You can never go wrong with green and purple (so says the Hulk!!). I like the effects you got by glazing and it makes the mini really stand out! 😃
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I look forward to seeing your selfies in purple spandex! 😉
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Those are reserved for special nights!
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Hulk Smash!
As the kids these day say…
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Looking good dude! I like projects like this where it’s ok to just push paint around until you’re happy 🤘
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Thanks Alex – they can really be freeing – agreed. That’s the trouble with so many GW modes these days – so over-detailed that you can’t just paint for fun sometimes!
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great finish to the piece mate, you’ve created lots of interest within the piece, with you colour choices and blends.
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Thanks Dave – swirly magic effects are pretty loose and freeform!
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Love the colors and the glazing effects.
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Cheers Mark! Much appreciated!
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Nice work Az. I just love the very subtle shading.
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Thank you!
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Nicely done! 🙂 Colours have come out really well!
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Thanks John! It’s pretty bright, but “magic” after all!
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