Anno Domini 1666 - The Old World without the Warhammer

Due to a painting challenge from the wonderful Blackjack Legacy YouTube challenge, I’ve interrupted the plan to paint a few of the more weird fantasy miniatures. Originally I was going to paint these near the end and work towards two playable factions (France and Poland), but the theme for the July painting challenge was Fantasy and I think these fit the bill better than the Musketeers. So I am working through the Chamber of Curiosities set which contains three monsters and three psuedo-historical characters. The monsters are a Succubus (painted here), a Frankenstein’s Monster type creature called Monstrum and the daemon Mephistopheles. The characters are a version of Isaac Newton, in this case responsible for creating Monstrum, Father Maximilian Merian, a Swiss priest turned exorcist and Monster Hunter on the hunt for the Succubus and Dr Faust, based on the German folk character of the same name who, after signing a pact with the devil was granted Mephistopheles as a servant. I think all of this counts as Fantasy, right?

I’m not going to drone on at Leng about how awful the miniature was – it was PVC and that’s usually just par for the course. That said, I am mostly happy with the results. I am a bit disappointed with the dress because although I think it looks ok, I had tried to paint it so it looked sheer and where the outline of her legs is showing under the dress, highlight it up using the skin tone. And it had worked right up until I put a red glaze over it and, well, the intensity of the glaze was too strong and it has hidden the effect. Also, as I was removing her from her original base the knife slipped and the feet and lower part of the dress ended up being cut off. I managed to repair it as best I could, but these things never seem to go back together properly. So if you look too closely, you will see the mismatch.