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

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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…

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery – Prismatic Palisade & Chronomatic Cogs

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Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Prismatic Palisade & Chronomatic Cogs

Today I’m showing a pair of Endless Spells that I’ve had sitting around since I got the big box, several years ago. The Prismatic Palisade had been started a couple of years ago, while the Chronomatic Cogs were painted quickly in the last few days.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Prismatic Palisade

The Palisade was largely an early Contrast Paint experiment, while I was still very much learning to blend it into an existing base, so it’s a little rough in the finer blends, which frustrated me at the time. But you know what’s better than an infinitely stalled, imperfect model? A finished, table-ready model – even if it’s imperfect. Especially for something like this that’s almost scenery. So when I dug out the Beastgrave scenic elements, I also dug out this thing, and made a mental committment to getting it finished.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Prismatic Palisade

There’s another I didn’t get done, but it should hopefully be done and dusted in the next week or so. Anyway, the rainbow colours at the ends of the crystals aren’t perfectly blended in, but the piece is good enough to drop down on a table for a couple of turns, is a decent size to stand out on the table which sort of minimises the blending issues, and so I’m calling it “good enough”, and I’m also calling it another down for Dave Stone’s annual Season of Scenery challenge.

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Chronomatic Cogs

This next piece. Chronomatic Cogs was a quick one. I’d not started it due to not quiet being sure how to paint the blend from dark metallics into a ghostly colour. It was actually one of those “laying in bed it came to me” things to use the same paint to represent both verdigris into a more typical “contrast paint” effect into the ghostly smoke-ectoplasm …stuff. In the end I just used Citadel’s Nihilakh Oxide, mostly because I like the colour. So.. that was that!

Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery - Chronomatic Cogs

This one was completed this past weekend, so misses out narrowly on the Season of Scenery, but that sort of thing is always going to happen with so many little projects on the go. Still, another pair of Endless Spells done! Will I get the introductory box done before 2022 ends? Probably not, but I can always hope.,.