Brimstone – Hellbats

These are the Hellbats from the Brimstone - Swamps of Death box.

I like the concept, essentially winged snakelike creatures, but I am disappointed with the minis.

They are made of five parts – body, two wings, ‘head’ and tongue. Rather good fit, meaning I didn’t need that much green stuff to hide cracks. Unfortunately the details a bit lacking and that is especially noticeable where the tail wraps around the rocks on the ground and where the body coils and sort of mergers on the minis. I would have liked to see more distinct parts that do not blend into each other. I guess I could have made bigger effort with my painting to ‘separate’ the parts with shadows, but I just couldn’t bother.

Anyway, these are the paints I used:

Body – Vallejo 882 Middlestone with a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone. The backside of the wings also got a wash of Citadel Washes Thraka Green and I drybrushed the undersides with 971 Green Grey.

Claws – 034 Bone White with a Strong Tone wash

Rocks – 987 Medium Grey also washed with Strong Tone.

Mouth and tongue – 944 Old Rose washed with Citadel Baal Red. The tongue got another wash of Citadel Leviathan Purple. I also painted faint streaks of Baal Red around the mouth.

Gills – two washes of Baal Red over the ordinary body tone.

Teeth – 034 Bone White.

Everything varnished with Vallejo Matte Varnish and mouth and gills got a coat of Gloss Varnish.

Die! Shooter from Black Scorpion.

Click here for the rest of my painted Brimstone minis.