Dan’s 2025 Side Projects

The enchanter is a neutral unit from Heroes of Might and Magic 3; no faction can create them but you can recruit them in certain situations.

The clothes were painted naggaroth night and then highlighted with genestealer purple mixed in. The skin was bugman’s glow with kislev flesh mixed in for the highlighting. The hair was mournefang brown with skrag brown mixed in. The belt was dryad bark with gorthor brown mixed in for the highlights. The gold was retributor armour with auric armour gold used for highlighting.

The base was rhinox hide with zamesi desert mixed in for highlights. The rim was painted abaddon black.

A few glazes of druchii violet were applied to the bottom of the gold horns to simulate the light reflecting off the robes in the gold.

The magical explosion was painted with a mix of white scar and lothern blue, and then a wash of this mix was applied where light from the magic would land on the model.

The Tower faction were always my favourite when playing the computer game – three ranged units let me just sit back and shoot my enemy off the battlefield.

Lots of varied and vivid colours in this set…

All the models were undercoated grey seer. The gremlin skin was elysian green blended up with ogryn green. The gremlin robes were painted macragge blue blended up with calgar blue. The genie skin was painted the fang blended up with russ grey. The genie and mount blue clouds were painted lothern blue blended up with white scar. The red robes were painted mephiston red blended up with evil sunz scarlet. The brown leathers were painted steel legion drab blended up with kark stone. The horses were painted apothecary white. The yellow trims were painted averland sunset. The iron golem was painted warplock bronze blended up with runefange steel. The green magic was painted moot green blended up with white scar. The Naga’s swords were painted leadbelcher highlighted with runefang steel. The Naga and Titan skin were painted fenrisian greyblended up with pallid wych flesh. The gargoyle was painted corvus black blended up with administratum grey. The Naga snake tail and Titan skirt was painted naggaroth night blended up with pink horror. The Titan’s armour was painted retributor armour highlighted with auric armour gold.

This model is supposed to be a diamond golem, but for the purposes of this month’s painting competition I’m turning it into a ice golem. That requires nothing more than a name change, as the sculpt and colour scheme work for ice just as easily as they do for diamond.

The model was painted fenrisian grey. It was then given a fairly harsh shade of fenrisian grey mixed with corvus black. Then a further shade was added using this mix with more corvus black added in. Similarly the model was given a harsh highlight of fenrisian grey mixed with white scar. Another highlight was added with this mixture with more white scar added in. A final highlight of pure white scar was applied.

The skirt was painted abaddon black, then warplock bronze. Then it was given a highlight of runelord brass followed by runefang steel.

The base was painted rhinox hide with a few highlights with increasing amounts of zandri dusk being mixed in each time.

This is one of the bigger Heroe’s models – it may in fact be the biggest (I can’t be arsed looking through every box to check).

The wing membranes were painted fenrisian grey then highlighted a few times with more and more white scar added each time.

The body was painted calgar sky, washed with drakenhof nightshade, then dry brushed caledor blue.

The teeth and horns were painted zandri dust then highlighted a few times with more and more screaming skull added each time.

The base was painted the same way as the other neutral units (see previous posts).

Another faction finished.

The archangel wings and gryphon feathers were painted with apothecary white.

The skin was painted rakarth flesh then layered up with more flayed one flesh added with each layer. The blue areas were painted the same with macragge blue and calgar blue. The leather, horse, and brown bits of the gryphon were the same with steel legion drab  and karak stone. The wooden areas were the same with mournefang brown and deathclaw brown. The flames were the same with jokaero orange and flash gitz yellow.

The horse tail and hooves were painted corvus black. The zealot’s magical blast was painted lothern blue and then highlighted up with more white scar added. The metal areas were painted leadbelcher then given a single highlight with runefang steel.

The bases were zandri dust highlighted up with screaming skull  being added in for the rocky areas, and lothern forest with ogryn camo being added in for the grassy areas.