Miniatures Rescue with Maledrakh (aka Spring Cleaning)

Day 6:

Time to finish this. Note that any and all of the steps used on these minis take at most a couple of minutes each. so it’s is not as much work as it at first might seem. It took much longer because of the photographing.

Details like boils and the belly jewel basecoated with Army Painter Alien Purple

Slightly smaller coat with thinned Scalecolor Blood Red on top of the purple.

Further highlight with Hobby Games Products Dark Purple. (This was originally in an old round citadel-style pot from way back when, probably made at the same plant as the Citadel paints of the time.)

Some more highlight with Vallejo Nocturna Medium Flesh, also on a bit of exposed flesh. The belly jewel got a crescent on the lower side

Lots of sickly bits given a careful wash of Citadel Carroburg Crimson Shade. Also the innermost parts of the scythe handle.

Scalecolor Toxic Waste Green for top spots, also used thinned on the exposed skulls. Very light drybrush on the green parts of weapon handles. The belly jewel got a Nurgle-themed three dot highlight. The plaguesword got some dabbed on to make it stand more out.

Hightlighting the skulls with Reaper Graveyard Bone

Teeth and eyes with Reaper Linen White, which has a yellow tinge.

Redoing some mistakes, lining around the eyes, and fixing where the paint had rubbed off at the end of the scythe handle with Vallejo Nocturna Shadow

Soft tone on the skull bone

Milky blue cataracts in the single eyes with Scalecolor Caribbean Blue

Gloss varnish on the belly jewel of the middle one, and (only) on the exposed skull bone on the two at the sides to give the appearance of beling slimy.

Highlights on weapon handles and the orc-like green skin got knocked back a bit, also some fixing of mistakes here and there, and some covering of exposed metal. Vallejo Nocturna Shadow, Pale Flesh and Forest Skin.

Yes, I recently bought both the Fairy and Malefic Vallejo Nocturna Flesh Paint Sets. Giving some of the colours a go for the first time here.

The minis themselves are finished. I kept the cloak more or less in it’s original state, I only needed to cover a few spots that had gone bare metal, also I covered my sloppy mess on the front part with green that I carried over to the shoulders.

Now for basing.

I usually use Vallejo Earth on the tops and black around the rims. This is the last of my Reaper Pure Black. There might be a drop or two left in the bottle, but then it is spent. Two coats of black is needed.

Black flock around the feet, these are so noxious as to kill off anything they come close to…

Finished with tufts and standard flockmix.

Finished with tufts and standard flockmix.