Seldon9 Is Painting HeroQuest

The weapons rack was another piece I needed out as quick as possible. Relying on a preshade again I used Vallejo’s Woodgrain tint pretty much neat. I shouldn’ve thinned but c’est la vie. Just washed metallics on the other parts with contrast browns on the shields.

I would’ve liked more time on the torture rack to add a few blood effects but it wasn’t to be. The burnt umber pigments added a reddish tinge which will have to do.

These were nice pieces with plenty of details to paint. The colour on the stone was a little strong and the metallics could have done with some more highlighting. But these were another couple of pieces I had to cut short.

The candles were interesting to paint. Quick wet blends of yellow and orange on the flames and a Seraphim Sepia wash on the candle bodies.

The box came with some rats and skulls that appeared to be for decoration. There weren’t any instructions. I painted them up and left them to my friend to decide what he wanted to do with them. Apparently one of the exclusive missions uses them.

The skulls were just off white with an Agrax Earthshade wash.

The rat’s bodies were painted with several layers of contrast till I was happy.

The box came with two bookcases and what looked like a similar sized chest with the door sshut. I 3d printed another three bookcases.

I used the wood effect for the frames and gave eachbook a bit of colour. Wow that was tedious.

Easily the most interesting piece of furniture to paint. I used the stone techniques for the fireplace and thought the pigments worked best here. Props to Gerry’s Gerrycan for that one.

The fire was painted with hottest parts – nearest the wood – painted a white / yellow and wet blended the colours out to red at the edges. I used Scalecolour Sol Yellow, Mar Orange and Aldebaran Red to do this over a white preshade.

The picture frame gave me a bit of a quandary. I could print and cut out a suitable figure. But I thought my friend might like to do that. So I went with a mirror effect. This was done using the loaded brush technique using Daler Rowney Paynes Grey ink, Scale colour Deep Blue and white. Took quite a few goes and then the paint reactivated when I glossed it. Fortunately it settled ok. I added a little purple in later.

Hero time and I wanted to put a bit more effort into these characters. I tried to follow the wizard’s scheme but found it a bit dull. His yellow jerkin had some nice details in orange but they didn’t show well when I added them. I’ve added more and more red to get them to show up.

So to give him a bit of pizazz I painted a MAGIC cloak. I cribbed the technique from a Dr Faust video I now can’t find. I used a cocktail stick to dot silver dots around his cloak. Then I cut the stick down to smaller and smaller sizes to keep dotting and filling any gaps. After dotting I used inks to tint it. I felt I overdid the tinting and dulled it a bit too much. So I gave it a gloss finish without a matt coat.

Edit: found the vid:

So I was using metallics for these figures but I’ve always ended up overdulling metallics. This time I stuck to inks for shading to preserve the brightnew and I didn’t matt coat metallic areas. She’s pretty bright now.

Some interesting details on the figure including vials of some concoction.

Some good details on this figure I felt I could paint and ignore much of the rest. The edging around the hem of his jerkin worked for that purpose.

I was using a lot of gold and wanted to differentiate him somehow. I undercoated his metallics with a red then progressed from Brassy Brass to Gold.

I wanted a nice effect on his blade and eventually decided to shade them using Liquitex Turquoise ink. Really liked the colour. I’ve never been convinced shading metallics works that well but this was as good as I’ve done.