Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery – Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

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.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

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”.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

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.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

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.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Endless Spells: Malevolent Maelstrom

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…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Rasputin & Margarethe Richter

I’ve finished another pair of the Death May Die Investigators now – so I’ve caught up on last month’s missed models and have now completed a pair for July. The first is the Mad Monk himself, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, who – let’s face it – fits in pretty well with a Cthulhu game. In the character bio it talks about how he was captured and experimented on/tortured, with the result being his legendarily hard-to-kill constutution. Despite my misgivings about the technique generally, I did apply some subtle OSL to the model and it’s turned out okay without discolouring the rest of the effort painting him too badly.

The other model in this post is Margarethe Richter, a “paleoanthropologist and celebrity chef” from Munich, Germany. Because, well, why not, I guess? Margarethe is one of those minis that really didn’t excite me at all when it came ot the prospect of painting her based on either the artwork or the model, but I’m actually really happy with the completed model. Grigori’s not too bad, either. With both models I pretty much followed the overall artwork for the colours and “feel” and I’m pretty happy with the results on both. Just six more of these now. Will I manage to finish any more in June? I hope so, but no promises…