Hellboy (an old Spring Clean Challenge)

Perhaps the most difficult thing to find a decent example of, the orrery. The Mantic orrery that comes with the Wizard Study is ok I guess but I couldn’t justify a whole Terrain Cate for it. I did consider making my own model but it wasn’t like I had the time . After printing I did think to remove some of the struts to see more of the planets and in hindsight I probably could have shrunk the sun a little but on the whole I’m pretty happy with it.

So way back before covid ,when gaming was still a regular thing, one of my mates donated a few pieces from Mantics Terrain crates to my Hellboy box. There is no doubt that the bookshelves and desk work wonderfully on the board but from an aesthetic view they also highlight how good it would it would be to do away with all the cardboard counters.

One other thing that happened shortly before covid was the arrival of my Creality CR-9 FDM printer. I’m not going to get into depth about printing the stuff here. But I will say that after 18 or so months of keeping an eye out for appropriate STLs and learning a few ropes about printing I’ve almost put together a collection I’m happy with. I say almost as there is an objective generator/science experiment that I’m not settled on yet but I have Brain In Jar and the Arc Of The Covenant to cover me for now.

Finding Doors was relatively easy, thingiverse is good for much

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1126259

The Boxes and wardrobes were by Epic Minitures on MyMiniFactory

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-mimic-set-2-disguise-monster-classic-encounter-collection-165610

And the tables, chairs and orrery were by Darkest Desire on MyMiniFactory

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-orrery-re-supported-168057

Not an official Hellboy piece , just a few bits and pieces put together while playing with putty durring my Hellboy project. Still a brain in jar is perfect prop material for helboy so I decided to add an extra game piece and call it a clue.

In truth I’m still feeling my way with sculpting and epoxies but it was a lot of fun.

Thats it for hellboy I suppose, I have learnt a lot through this project and pushed my boundaries on not just how to paint a lot of minis but also find new ways to paint them.

So After spending altogether too much time agonising over getting the correct colour graduation from tip to tail with numerous glazes, highlight passes and washes it still didn’t feel right. Then I referred to the original art work and realised the 2 legged croc was meant to have wings! There was nothing else for it but to pull out the Apoxie sculpt and sculpting tools.

So only St Leonards worm to go. Though the last few have been churned out pretty quick I’m going to take a little break and contemplate my purple worm a little more to give it the love and attention it deserves.

Buisiness as usual today with Rasputin as the foocus while chipn’ away the others.

Only 6 to go now.