Resolution 2019: Mythic Battles Pantheon

When the models arrived I got them all base coated using coloured sprays. This alone took me a couple of weeks of spraying a new batch each day.

In 2017 I had set myself the target of painting all the Conan Kickstarter models  (which I finished with 3 hours to go) so I was in no mood to set myself another massive painting challenge in 2018. A year on my motivation has recovered and I want to get all these models painted up.

My plan is to start with the titans and gods, perhaps painting up any troops that are closely associated and have similar colour schemes as I go. Once the gods and titans are done I’ll move on to the monsters, then the heroes. Finally I’ll do any remaining troop models at the end of the year.

At the start of each month I’ll pick the models to be done that month and if I get them finished I’ll let myself do an unrelated painting project to give myself a change before the next month starts.

The full list of models I have to paint is:

6 Titans

15 Gods

36 Monsters

35 Heroes

80 Troops

15 Villagers

22 pieces of terrain

My rough break down for painting will be:

January – 4 Titans

February – 2 Titans, 4 Gods

March – 8 Gods

April – 3 Gods, 5 Monsters

May – 8 Monsters

June – 8 Monsters

July – 8 Monsters

August – 7 Monsters, 4 Heroes

September – 31 Heroes

October, November, December – Troops, villagers and terrain

Based on my usual time available for painting I think I could keep that pace but would have little time to paint anything else in the year. Where I can gain ground though is when models have very similar colour schemes and I can paint them together. I imaging there will be lots of troops that get painted ahead of schedule along side a closely associated god or titan.

I’ll get started on these two this week. They both have similar colour schemes of dark bodies with a burning inner fire look, so I should be able to work on the two together efficiently. They’ve both been base coated with a mephiston red spray.

These are the sort of effect I’m going to be aiming for.

These are both now finished. I’ll be fitting clear perspex bases later in the project.

I started by painting the lave/flame areas flash gitz yellow. I then drybrushed fiery orange then wild rider red.

Their “skin” was painted skavenblight dinge, washed nuln oil and then drybrushed stormvermin fir and finally karak stone.

Kronos’ smoke was painted mechanicus standard grey, washed nuln oil, and then drybrushed dawnstone.

The metal was painted leadbelcher, washed nuln oil, then drybrushed ironbreaker and then finally highlighted with runefang steel.

I did almost all the work using the brushes shown below for maximum speed.

Next up are Gaia and Typhon.

I quite like the heat effect I used on the previous two titans and I want to do something similar for the other two titans to show a raw inner power. For Gaia I’m going to go with a green inner glow to link her with nature. For Typhon I’m thinking a purple glow for destruction.

I started with the glow effects but I’m not happy with the results.

The green is a base of moot green with successive drybrushes of snot green and caliban green.

The purple is a base of genestealer purple with successive drybrushes of xereus purple  and naggaroth night.

Comparing these to the results with the heat effect I think there are two things that have gone wrong:

1. The heat effect uses different colours to give contrast (i.e. yellow, orange, and red).
2. The heat effect starts with a very bright colour (i.e. yellow).

With this in mind I’m going to re-paint these and change the colours so that the effects “pop” more.

I’m going to come back to the glow effects once the rest of the areas on these models are done.

Gaia’s skin was basecoated deathworld forest, washed athonian cammoshade, then drybrushed elysian green followed by ogryn cammo.

Her dress was basecoated celestra grey then drybrushed ulthuan grey. I then glazed it with a 50:50 mix of waywatcher green  and lahmian medium.

Typhon’s front larger scales were painted rakarth flesh then drybrushed flayed one flesh followed by pallid wych flesh. The area was then washed with seraphim sepia.

The body fur and rear areas with smaller scales were base coated castellan green, washed with athonian cammoshade, then drybrushed with loren forest then straken green.