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…