Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental

Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental

My final completed model for June this year is this Earth Elemental from the Massive Darkness boardgame’s “Enemy Box: Elementals” expansion. I started this one at least a year ago (maybe two?) and restarted it at least once due to not being happy at all with how it was looking.

Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental

I also didn’t manage to get it finished for either Monster March or Monster MayHem this year, but I managed to pluck the part-painted thing up after those last couple of Cthulhu minis and just got it done.

Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental

It’s actually a pretty nice model (I think) and it can find use in a few different games should the need arise. It’s certainly a lot nicer looking than either the triangle-head or beak-face D&D-style of elemental minis out there, and could probably fit into either a Wood Elf/Sylvaneth force (or whatever the KoW equivalent is called) as a Nature Spirit or even an Orc force as the Rogue Idol’s lil’ bro.

Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental

It’s certainly a lot nicer looking than either the triangle-head or beak-face D&D-style of elemental minis out there, and could probably fit into either a Wood Elf/Sylvaneth force (or whatever the KoW equivalent is called) as a Nature Spirit or even an Orc force as the Rogue Idol’s lil’ bro.

Massive Darkness: Earth Elemental, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

Here’s Berkeley for the size comparison – this one is actually a bit smaller (I think) than it initially appears. That’s why we have Berkeley, though!

Massive Darkness – Pillars (June ’19 Terrain Challenge) + Contrast Paint Experiment #1

Massive Darkness Pillars

(Mostly)-thinned Contrast Paints provide a “good enough” discount marble effect.

Starting off June’s models in truly underwhelming fashion today – with the set of pillars from the 2016 CMON Dungeon Crawler boardgame Massive Darkness. By all accounts, the game is supposed to be pretty decent, though I haven’t yet opened it to play it. Instead, I’ve finished off the pillars – to be used as pillars in whatever game I happen to be playing that needs pillars. Because pillars.

Massive Darkness Pillars

Serving suggestion.

Paint was pretty straightforward, cleaned up, glued to round 25mm bases with a washed glued underneath to give them a little more stability. They were sprayed with the new GW “Grey Seer” and given a coat of thinned-down Gryph-Charger Grey Contrast paint in a bit of an experiment. With a satin varnish, the slightly-greenish hue and subtle tide marks give them a nice enough marble-ish effect, though a far cry from a “proper” marble look – they worked well enough as a Contrast Paint experiment. I decided not to dirty-up the bottoms of them, so that they can be used as either indoor or outdoor pillars.