Anno Domini 1666 - The Old World without the Warhammer

At the same time as painting Monstrum, I also painted Father Maximilian Merian.  Maximilian is a Jesuit priest from Switzerland, born to the wealthy Merian family.  Formerly a member of the Swiss Papal Guard, he has lately taken his holy orders and now spends his time hunting and exorcising demons.  In the game, he is a mercenary, usable with any faction.  However bringing him along for the ride pretty much precludes you from using anything even remotely supernatural as this is obviously incompatible with his puritanical beliefs.

He was painted as a side project while painting Monstrum during waiting for things to dry.  Because his priest robes are mostly black, this is a fairly easy model to paint quickly using drybrushing.  A black base coat, which can be applied using a spray primer, then drybrushed (using the techniques shown by Byron from Artis Opus) using a dark grey, in this case Necromancer Cloak from Army Painter.  I then added a smidge if dungeon grey to the mix to lighten it and then gave it a slightly lighter drybrush before washing with nuln oil.  The wash not only provides shade, taking he grey highlights back to just the right level, it also acts as glaze and gives you really nice smooth transitions from black to a mid grey.  I was really happy with the finish, but sadly, you won’t get to see it.  When I came to varnish it, the model misted over, pretty completely over the entire model.  This is “repairable” without having to strip the model by painting it with a very thin coat of olive oil.  However, even when left to dry, it has left the model with a slightly glossy finish which makes photos quite hard.  So, yeah.  Pretty hacked off about that.