Here's a look at some of the stuff I've painted recently, starting with the Ossiarch endless spells. While some might ungenerously say that endless spells are Games Workshop's way of getting another £22.50 out of everyone who wants to buy a new Battletome, I love the concept — as it adds so much character to each army, really emphasises the high fantasy tone of Age of Sigmar and provides an extra dollop of cinematic feel to the gaming table.
I painted mine using a very restricted colour palette — both for speed and to emphasise the fact that they are almost completely made of magic rather than magically sculpted bone.
Up next we have a trio of Ossiarch characters, my Liege-Kavalos, a Mortisan Soulreaper and Vokmortian. I kept the Mortisan Soulreaper in my standard army scheme as I didn't really see the need to make him look more sinister and I was keen to see what he'd look like in a less dark scheme. My Liege-Kavalos fought me every step of the way — the model has a lot of detail crammed in around its centre and feels very cluttered compositionally. When I first saw the Vokmortian model, I was reminded of the opening scheme of 300 and while it's a nice enough model, it could have done with being on a larger scale to allow more space between the staff and his head.
Finally, here's my two Mortek Crawlers. I used a lot of contrast paints for the brown gradients/transitions and I was surprised at how just how much you have to dilute down the contrast paints to do so. My favourite bits are the glowing skulls — which I did using the method set out in the Battletome.
Three things I really like about this:
ReplyDelete1. The ghostly green effects - good consistency and beautiful
2. More really nice blue effects
3. Its really difficult to make different shades of brown stand out from each other and you achieved that
Splendid work. I am hugely impressed by the results you're getting from the Contrast range!
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