Hobby funk Beholder

As I wearly put down my brush from painting a mini I didn’t really fancy doing, I caught a glimpse of a beholder, beckoning me from a dusty shelf.

I had some bonemeal paint left on my pallet so I made a start.

This mini, I think is one of the official dnd ones and I have to say, I think it looks fantastic!

Priced at around £8.00 it’s a real steal.

The model is pre primed and come with alternate eye stalks, some firing spells, some innert.

In this stage I painted the inside of the mouth.

The gums are Scale 75 instant paints love affair red.

The tongue is love affair red mixed with a little Fairy blood.

The inside of the mouth is a reverse of the above with Fairy blood mixed with a little love affair red.

The surround of the large eye is again Fairy blood.

Note – Fairy blood is apparently bluey purple.

The spells being fired off from some of the stalks were reasonably simple.

• Red ink with yellow ink at the extremity for the fire looking spell.
• Blue ink for the lighting
• Green ink for the blasty looking spell
• Purple ink (red an blue mix because I don’t have purple ink) for the remaining spell

I really couldn’t resist that pun!

Next was the large Central Eye.

I started with a scale 75 instant blue but quite watered down. I almost flicked it on really lightly with the brush. Then I added a bit of light brown, again watered down, towards the centre just flicked on lightly as before
The white of the eye I added a bit of really watered down red towards the edge and while still wet moved it around a bit to how I wanted it.

Towards the end of this painting session I started on the main body. Simply blending a blue instant paint into a green.

Lots more to do.yet but I’m making some decent progress.

I made some good progress tonight.

Paint is down on the main body, blending blue to green to yellow.

All of the eye stalks are now painted.

These are done with a bit of green and yellow.

I have added a bit of effect to the teeth and gums with a strong tone wash and brown instant paint.

Definitely getting somewhere now.

All finished!

Loved painting this and made good use of my Scale 75 instants.

Smaller eyes done with a white base followed of a Fuegan Orange shade.

Rocky base was a Shadow black instant paint, dry brush rust colour and finished with a strong tone wash.

I altered the back of the mini a bit giving it a boney spine as I thought it was a bit bland originally.

Hope you enjoyed the project folks.