Gokufan’s Celestial Genesis Twilight

I thought the base was looking a bit bare, so…

This is Edward Cullen. He spawned from Twilight’s head by budding.

I also added some Army Painter Highland Tufts and some more pigments to change the color a bit. The base is done, so she just needs her bells, cleanup, and a few other odds and ends for completion!

The main thing left to do at this point was to attach and paint her bells. I primed them grey and attached them to the sockets in her fingers. I was a bit worried that they’d be difficult to glue in but they actually went on quite easily. Still quite fragile though!

After attaching them I painted them in the same manner as her other metallic costume pieces. I also painted the charms in her front arm wrappings and the lump of green stuff hanging from her her front hands. I still might end up just removing that bit…

The bells have characters engraved in them, so brushed on some gloss coat and used some hull red with flow improver to color in the grooves, then I highlighted them a bit more. This is on the ragged edge of my brush cotnrol abilities so they didn’t come out too stunningly, but I think it’s better than just ignoring the engravings.

After this I went back and cleaned up a few places where I had accidentally gotten splattered some paint and fixed a few other small errors. Then I wrapped the base with cling wrap and hit with a coat of gloss varnish followed by a coat of matte varnish.

Done! I’m going to post the finished pictures in their own update after this one so they appear at the top of the project. If you’re reading this post right after I publish it check back in an hour to see the finished product.

The finished product! This was a lot of fun to paint. I think I learned a good bit about blending smooth surfaces, making bases, and cellphone photography (even if my pictures still leave something to be desired.) VMC Basic Skin Tone was the MVP of this paint job, I’d say. My attention was also brought to the fact that the tips on my brushes are well past their prime…

So regarding the “fluff” on Twilight… well I actually can’t tell you much. I’m pretty into the lore of Celestial, what little of it is out there, and out of all the Celestial Genesis minis she’s the one character whose Chinese mythological inspiration I can’t figure out. She seems to be part of The Queen of the Void AKA Wang Mu’s faction. The Queen of the Void is based on The Queen Mother of the West, but I’m not sure where Twilight fits into the equation. Unlike the other 3 factions whose motives are pretty explicit, Twilight and TQotV’s motives are unclear.

You can see more of the lore at the website celestialgame.com, and lots of cool concept art and model renders on the celestialminiature facebook page (I want that candledog!). On another note, per the site only 44/300 Twilights are left, and I believe the quantities are not updated in real time so it’s probably actually less than that. So if you want your own you’ll need to hop to it. Of course I believe the actual game will be kickstarted at some ill-defined point in the future, so you could also wait for that and get her in hard plastic.

The next Celestial mini I paint is going to be Uzeon, Wing of the Cryptick Mist, who is based on Qinglong, The Dragon of the East. He’s a flying biomechanical serpent with a face that screams “no items, final destination”. Also, like all the other celestials aside from Jingwe, he is MUCH larger than Twilight.

Although I originally intended to post all my celestials in the same project, this project already seems much longer than the average Beasts of War project page so I think I’ll start a new one for each model. It will probably be a month or two before I start on him since my non-celestial backlog needs tending to, but if you’re interested keep an eye on the projects page.

Finally, some new regarding the greater Diemension Games universe. Backers of their first game, Deep Madness, have started receiving their games. The basic premise is a near future setting where humans are fighting Lovecraftian horrors in an underwater research base. Not really my wheelhouse, but Celestial apparently takes place in the distant past of the same universe, so if you’re as into Celestial as I am it’s probably worth checking out at least.  Also, backers got a hard plastic Celestial miniature named Lei who looks pretty cool, if a bit plain compared to the resin line. I think he’s a probably a lesser clestial while the resins are the big shots of the setting.

Anyway, thanks for reading this big rambling blog, I really enjoyed writing it!

P.S. Oh god did I really have “painting” misspelled in the title this entire time