Terrain Challenge: Summoning Portal

Minis for this project would be Reaper Bones for three important reasons:

1. I had them on hand
2. The demon had to be light enough to glue to the portal without unbalancing it significantly (My Keeper of Secrets lives another day….)
3. It had to be cost effective enough for me to chop up a second version of the model for stepping through the portal. The alternative is me using green stuff to try and sculpt, and I’m no way near practiced enough at this stage to pull such a feat off.

All the mins got primed in Army painter Uniform Grey. The demon got a basecoat of Vallejo Mahogany (because I like the colour) and a white dry brush on the raised surface areas to help me with highlighting when I work out a colour scheme to use. Am thinking of starting with the artwork for the Balor from the D&D 3.5 Monster Manual and working from there as far as inspiration goes.

For the 5 cultists I gave everyone a black wash to help me identify details, and a white dry brush for helping with highlighting. Have opted to go for a black, white and purple scheme on the cultists. Started off with the white, and using the fantastic Vallejo ‘Black and White’ paint set took some liberties with the suggested methodology and proceeded as follows:

1. Basecoat in Deck Tan
2. Shaded with German Cam Beige
3. Second shade with a 2:1 mix of German Cam beige and Neutral Grey
4. First highlight with Ivory
5. Second highlight with a 1:1 mix of Ivory and White.
6. At that point the transition still looked a little stark, so I glazed all the white areas with a very thinned down coat of Ivory.

Will probably leave well enough alone at this stage and see how it looks with the other colours on. If all else fails I still have recourse to dipping them 😉

And yeah, somewhere along the lines the cultists got some basic skintone applied to their flesh and the demon picked up some ink washes on his summoned fireball..