Pandora’s Box [Insert innuendo]

I finally painted the viking from the top layer, but he’s not greek and gets no photo.

Also made some progress on the bottom layer… painted both sets of Spartoi, the Hellhounds, the Colchidian Dragon, the lump of rock called Tityos and Hippolyta.

That leaves 16 troops, Helios, Hermes and Jason. Not an impossible feat.

Of course I did buy three expansions recently, but they are new and technically not a Spring Clean Challenge until next year…

Edit: Forgot about Atlas… he’s going to be a right pain… he’s huge!

It’s done. Completed more of the spring clean challenge than anticipated and the Pandora’s Box is painted.

Quality is not great, particularly on the troops, but I hate painting units… not ideal for wargaming… but I’m more a role-player.

I may yet do something with the bases, but not so much that they won’t fit back in the box as I have the store the damned thing.

And here’s Atlas… the only titan that was part of the core pledge.

I know… he looks a bit crap… but I slapped a lot of contrast paint on him and hoped he’d come out… less crap…

Having used an awful lot of contrast and speed paint in this project I have mixed feelings on them. With textures: cloth, scales, fur, wood and the like they are a useful tool in the painting arsenal. But there are parts of models that look better with conventional paints and a separate wash afterwards.

During the painting of this project I had some moments of madness… three of them… and bought Hephaestus, Hera and Poseidon expansions.

As they are new… they are not part of the Spring Clean Challenge for this year.

But they will appear in the project system at some point.

One thing that has come out of painting this game is a desire to paint 75mm miniatures and I bought my first one… a cheapo Masterbox mini.

It did not go well as I tried to paint it first and assemble after… lets just say the glue was poorly applied and I had to do a lot of repainting. If I make it look acceptable I’ll post an image at some point.

I have since bought two more figures, but they have not arrived yet.

Not sure about my next project. I have a Carnevale kickstarter that has barely been touched, incomplete armies for Warmachine, the last box of Journeys in Middle Earth and everything I bought for Shatterpoint… plus a load more.