The Path to Directorate
Milestone 2 complete
…and it’s done! Milestone 2 completed.
Abomination was the missing piece and I managed to finish it off in the first days of January. As previously mentioned I needed to redo the skin with acrylics after the fail with the oil paints and washes – this medium is still new to me so I will need to explore it bit more.
Base for the Abomination was almost a project of its own. I decided to make it more wet ground like with puddles with Dweghom ruins laying around. Here I was extensively using enamels – they really help in achieving more realistic look. Added some moss and tufts at the end to finalise it.
So The Spires army now stand at around 900 points and I really love how everything looks so far.
Question is what I’ll be adding to Milestone 3 as my FLGS still did not received any new Conquest product.
I got Twisted the Avatar Projection limited edition resin diorama directly from Para Bellum, so this one is definitely getting into Milestone 3 ??
The big guy came out really nicely. Very clean with good blends. If you don’t mind a touch of a nit-picking the overall basing for the army seems a bit inconsistent. The Abomination is very green vegetation on brown earth while the brutes seem to be more on brown/dried grass and the other troops have a very red earth feel. It might just be how it comes across in the pictures but I feel like it keeps the army from being as tied together as it could be. Just my 2 cents though. In all army is looking great.
Very good point actually – and you are right, Abomination has it’s own base – I really wanted to experiment with all the enamel and water/puddle products that I have and went all in 🙂 I do have one more Abomination on sprues that I will make him more consistent with the army regarding bases and that should solve it!
Another solution is that I might correct the bases on the FG Drones & Marksman Clones that have really reddish tone to it. Bring it closer to the Brute Drone bases.