Lazagram Side Questing

Theme of the month Magical Explosion!

This month’s entry had to be performed with ready-made plastic, as I have been suffering from a broken hot end. Ebay provided. The models are the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Geminids of Uhl-gysh Endless Spell. I needed a break from my current main project, and that’s why this isn’t a last-minute rush like normal. I’ve renamed them My Magical Orbs, as the previous seemed something of a mouthful. I get Wizard casts magical testicles from them. I was struggling with the explosion part of the theme; these are more magical in the moment just before the collision and its explosive conclusion.

I thought I would try my hand at some wet blending of contrast paints to achieve a rippling energy effect. Not my wheelhouse, effects, so a fun little project to try my hand at. I used a mix of Citadel contrast paints to wet-blend the colours, with some layer and technical paints for highlighting, and then applied a light coat of gloss spray lacquer.

Fun as usual, nice to paint something on the different side for me.  Hurrah.

Quick Reference Recipe

Green Orb —

• Prime: white.
• Base bands: Striking Scorpion Green → Hexwraith Flame → Warp Lightning (Contrast).
• Wet-blended bands following the sphere contour and the same radiating out on the base.
• Seams & atmosphere: Coelia Greenshade selectively in seams and to the base.
• Inner accents & glow: Tesseract Glow applied sparingly to ripple crests.
• Highlights: highlights with a thinned pale layer of Tessearact glow.
• Seal: light gloss lacquer.

Blue Orb —

• Prime: white.
• Base bands: Talassar Blue → Frostheart → Pylar Glacier (Contrast).
• Wet-blended bands following the sphere contour and the same radiating out on the base
• Seams & atmosphere: Drakenhof Nightshade selectively in seams and to the base.
• Inner accents & glow: Lothern Blue for accents and micro highlights.
• Highlights: highlights with a thinned pale layer
• Seal: light gloss lacquer.

Another enjoyable month’s entry, gloomy the theme.  Couldn’t find anything amongst the pile that was ‘gloomy’, so I 3D printed it again. The Statue on the pedestal, designed by LORDNORAKAI on Cult3D was initially going to be on its own, but I also stumbled across some Grimdark fence designs by FU11ER and decided to add them to the mix. I intend to base them on something at some point. I made another attempt at using UV resin, this time for a water effect. Still not quite got the knack of it, didn’t quite achieve the still flat water I was after.

A fun entry and a nice usable piece of terrain. Some brilliant entries and congrats to the joint winners @blinky465 and @horati0nosebl0wer

Quick Reference Recipe

• Prime Grey → Spray Black
• Statue: Administratum Grey basecoat → Nuln Oil wash → Brass and Metal Details → Agrax Earthshade
• Base & Plinth: Eshin Grey → Black drybrush → Nuln Oil + Agrax Earthshade
• Basin: Frostheart Contrast + White mix (bottom) → UV Resin fill
• Fence (stone): Grey prime → Black spray → Eshin Grey + Administratum Grey drybrush → Nuln Oil shade → Leadbelcher + Brass details → Agrax wash
• Finish: Matte varnish, selective gloss

Next month’s theme is Magical Explosion.

PS – There was a poor attempt to apply UV resin to the reactor pools. I started on the one I painted orange, but it was completely misjudged, and I enveloped the sector in a huge blob of UV resin. Hence, the big, clear/orange blob on one of the industrial tiles. Millions have died as a result, and the whole sector has been evacuated. I omitted this from the Paint list to avoid any potential liability. I did not use any more UV resin and instead stuck to the Gloss Nuln oil.