Anno Domini 1666 - The Old World without the Warhammer

Mephistopheles is a Demon, summoned by Faust in the German folk story. For the price of his soul, Satan sent Mephistopheles to serve Faust using magical powers for a fixed number of years, at the end of which the Devil will claim Faust’s soul and he will spend eternity in Hell. There are different versions of the story with different endings, some good and some bad. I love how the miniature actually carries a scroll, like a contract.

Details wise, he wasn’t actually too bad, there were some very awkward mold lines, I didn’t manage to remove them all and I also had to do a few little repairs where more model was removed than I would have liked. A few areas that had problems were the hand gripping the sword, there seems to just be half of a couple of fingers missing. And the little imps that are sitting on his sword and his arm are really, really bad. There’s literally no facial detail.

But enough with the bad, apart from those things, broadly speaking the details were ok for a PVC miniature, especially the face and doublet. And it was surprisingly fun to paint, I don’t normally paint things in grey as it can be quite dull but I quite like the results. I also had fun with the skin because obviously Mephistopheles is a demon, one of Satan’s agents so I didn’t want him to look human. Likewise I didn’t want his skin to look bright red. I really like the pink skin tone. It’s close enough that from a distance it could pass as human possibly allowing him to operate a little more freely. Apart from the tail, obviously. And the horns. And the cloven hoof. Erm, yeah.

Anyway I think I enjoyed Painting because it’s a different colour palette than what I would normally use. And I like my little demon.