2025 Painting Log

Seven more done for Mythic Battles: Ragnarök. I want to make sure the painting style is reasonably consistent for all of these, so I’m using more or less the same techniques I always use. The base edges are color-coded to what type of unit they are in the game: gold for gods, green for monsters, silver for heroes and copper for troops. Since I’m down to just the larger models, it’s going to be mainly gods and monsters from here on out.

Here we have Idunn, goddess of the golden apples (seems like an oddly specific thing to be goddess of) and Baldr, who is Thor’s brother but doesn’t seem to be the god of anything in particular.

The artwork for Tyr has him surrounded by a nimbus of lightning, so I thought I’d try some freehand to see if I could give the miniature a similar look. The tangle of vines is Mimir, the Aesir god of wisdom but for some reason the game has him classified as a monster. I really should read more Norse mythology, most of what I know is from the flavor text in this game and the Marvel Thor comics.

This jolly fellow is Freyr, Lord of Alfheim, and the mechanical boar is Gullinbursti. These two are in the same bit of artwork so I presume they are related — they never made it into the Marvel comics so I’m not really sure. At certain angles Freyr looks like he’s giving some cartoon side-eye, but the pose for this miniature is pretty goofy anyway so I didn’t try to fix it.

Finally we have my favorite of this batch: Garm, the guardian of the world of the dead. These larger miniatures have really large, flat bases which I’ve been texturing and painting to match the game artwork as best I can. For most of them it’s either snow or just indistinct dark grey, but Garm’s background had what looked like some lava streams so I tried to reproduce that without overthinking it too much.

Only 7 more to go and the base set will be done, then it’s on to the Asgard expansion.

2025 models painted so far: 203, for 13 different games