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Mythic Battles Spring Clean
Recommendations: 135
About the Project
Previously planned to paint my Mythic Battles Pantheon set in a style like 300/Sun City (comic) It contained mainly black and white minis with only 2 colours added to the mini. This worked fine to a point and looked great on the Spartans but I soon realised that it wouldn’t suit many of the minis and then we had the arrival of CONTRAST PAINTS (insert ray from the heavens sound) I am not into taking absolutely forever to get minis to a super high standard anymore and I am an evangelist for tabletop standard. It’s all you ever need and unless you’re going into a competition or have all the time on your hands then it’s effort down the drain. Also being a father of 2 my time is not my own and the kids deserve my time more than a 2nd or 3rd layer of highlights on a mini deserves my time. The minis you see will be mainly using contrast paints and washes to get them to a good standard to allow even more immersion into my favourite game of all time.
Related Game: Mythic Battles: Pantheon
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge (Old)
This Project is Active
Ares - Anger Management Issues
Ares was generally all contrast paints and I do intend to go back and work on the cloak a bit more but for now this is fine.
the gold was achieved with Nazdreg Yellow contrast and then a GW gold “Dry” paint which I have zero recollection of ever buying but over the yellow contrast I was so pleased with the gold look that this achieves for so little effort
Zeus - The MacDaddy!
As I have said in the description of this project the paint scheme mainly consists of contrast paints for things like the flesh tones and cloth
the armour and weapons I wanted to achieve a bronze that was developing a patina of verdigris.
I made my only bronze paint via browns and some elements of copper and gold metallics to give it an element of sheen but not too much and then I used the GW technical Verdigris paints. I tried to use it sparingly not slap it all over the shield etc. Very pleased with how Zeus came out and this all took about 4 hours painting time
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