Dan's 2025 Side Projects
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Inferno Models
The original plan was to undercoat these models mephiston red, as they’re clearly all red demons. That spray can had ran out, so I fell back on chaos black. That had run out too. So in the end they were sprayed mournefang brown. That turned out to be really great, as when you actually look closely at the art cards for these models (shown above) you will notice that brown is very much the dominant colour.
For nearly every colour used, the approach I took was to start with a 50:50 mix of that colour and mournefang brown, and for each subsequent layer I added in more of that colour to the mix. Each colour got about four or five layers of paint. In this way, most colours transition from mournefang brown in the recesses to the chosen colour. I think this replicates the artwork on the cards really well.
The imp, magog, and pit lord skin used wild rider red. The cerebus and demon fir used skrag brown. The demon, efreeti and devil skin used evil sunz scarlet. All horns and bone used screaming skull. The metal areas used sycorax bronze. The efreeti turban used flash gitz yellow. When painting these areas I tried to revers the highlights, i.e. make it look like the models were being lit from the glowing ground beneath them, rather than a high light source.
The rest of the painting didn’t blend with mournefang brown. The armour plates were simply painted abaddon black, as were the base rims at the end of the painting process. The flames were painted trollslayer orange (this took three coats to get good coverage) and then the recesses were painted flash gitz yellow. This was also used for all the eyes. The flames were then given a wash of casendor yellow.
The flames on the hero models didn’t get any yellow paint or wash, then were just washed with fuegan orange. The hero’s brown areas got a wash with agrax earthshade, and their reigns were painted mephiston red and washed carroburg crimson.
The bases and castle were dry brushed stormvermin fur with trollslayer orange painted into the recesses.
