Thursday 5 February 2015

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.

14 comments:

  1. You did a nice job with them. Have you seen the update about Flying Frog Productions looking for a better factory for the next waves?

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    1. Thank you.
      Yes, that does look promising and we'll have to see the outcome of that.... in 2016... :-( ...at the earliest...

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    2. Yeah... don't know what's best... better figures later or the same quality sooner.

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    3. Oh completely overlooked that update. Thanks for the reminder :)

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    4. I think I prefer quality before early delivery.
      I much prefer quality AND reasonable delivery time...

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  2. Exactly now what you mean with the details. Think that is a problem which is a "common theme" with the miniatures. Maybe we are too skeptical? After all its just a normal board game, thus they are quite OKish.
    But I share the disappointment to some point because in the Kickstarter they looked way better.

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    1. Yep, if Igo the Kickstarter page and look at the miniature they show of, for example, the Marshall and then compare it with what Iactually got then I get a bit disappointed. To say the least.

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    2. After the Sedition Wars KS and the Descent v1 stuff I am quite "battle hardened" here ;) Nonetheless if the can push up the quality it is a welcomed change.

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  3. The detail may be soft but you teased the best out of it

    Ian

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    1. Thanks. They did turn out much better than expected, actually.

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  4. looking good nice job, once the models are painted they suddenly look a fair bit better which helps during a adventure, don't forget that they might allow backers who did not opt for wave 1.5 to do so in the future, but it was $100 and shipped from the US if I recall correctly. ( Davros )

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    1. Thanks Davros.
      Yep, they do look much better painted up :-) It's not to hard to get a decent result.
      The 1.5 shipping is a possibility, but at an extra $100 or so for shipping and all the extra cost for customs... I don't think so.

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    2. Agree, a bit rich for my liking, with not a lot of gain especially as it is possible to make up you own monsters and critters in the mean time should you wish ( just like that cool Hellshrieker for example ) .Patience is the key word in KS World. Also I am unable to say I have nothing to get on with in the mean time 8). ( Davros )

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    3. I think I could also find something to paint in my tin- and plasticsmountain...

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