Anno Domini 1666 - The Old World without the Warhammer
4. Monstrum
After another bout of illness (yeah, it’s well past the point of being funny), I finally managed to sit down, on the very last weekend of the Black Jack Legacy July painting challenge, and finish the last of the “monsters” from Chmaber of Curiosities. This is “Monstrum”, essentially AD1666’s equivalent of Frankenstein’s Monster, only rather than being created by the evil genius of Dr Frankenstein, this one was create by the evil genius of Izaac Newton (yes, you read that right). Instead of pissing about watching apples falling out of trees, Newton appears to have turned his talents to more tangible endeavours.
There was absolutely loads of detail on this model, despite it also suffering in some areas from the same issues PVC miniatures suffer from. For the “stitching” across his torso and legs (basically, the areas where it looks like his skin is splitting), I tried a little experiment. I first painted some contrast paint across it, allowing it to spill into the areas around the gaps, after I based coated the skin. Then I painted the skin tone highlights over the top of the contrast paint. Because I am using speedpaint v1, the contrast reactivated and started to leech through the highlights which helped to blend the paints together and make it look inflamed
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