After my last update about painting the Frozen Horror expansion, I did not have much left to paint up. I had painted up the baddies, painted up the doors, and then finished off the Mercs. That did not leave much left to paint except the big monster himself. Therefore, no need to delay the inevitable, so let's get into the details shall we?
You can see him on the right there. He was all undercoated up the standard way. I am assuming that you know the drill about how I undercoat by now. I will spare you the details.
Those with good eyes will also see a couple of minis from the Jungles of Delthrak in that batch of minis too. Those with good eyes and good memories will recall that I painted the Man-Bear-Pig thing with the Mercs. This time, I will be painting up the Raptor while I waited for the Frozen Horror to dry.
The first thing I did was mix up some of the bluish undercoat I use for ice. Therefore, I put in one drop of Voidshield Blue, one of Holy White, and two drops of Medium. I then painted all the ice I could find on him. That was mostly on his armor, axe, and a bit on his body. For his body fur, I used watered down Sand Golem as an undercoat. That would give him a dirty fur look under the white. Then, I gave it a blast of Holy White.
This guy's palette was pretty limited. I mostly used Holy White, Runic Grey, Pallid Bone, Blood Red Hardened Leather, and a bit of Crusader Skin. Those were all Speedpaints. Pallid Bone was for his horns and fingernails. Holy White was for his armor trim fur. The bulk of any metal was that Runic Grey. Browns were for straps and the like. For some of the rivets and detail on his armor I used Enchanted Silver and Hoplite Gold from the Metallic Speedpaint set. I used Magic Blue for his eyes and runes on his axe too.
Unlike most of the models, I wanted to darken him up a lot, so I gave him a Strong Wash. The base of this one is black, instead of brown. This gives nice dark lining, and I wanted and needed that with such a mono-chrome color palette going into the end stages.
Oh look, his little lizard buddy is getting some attention to. I used Malignant Green on his head, arms, and calves. The rest of his main body was Magic Blue. His eventual tail and feathers were Fire-Giant orange. Tongue was Blood Red and claws were Pallid Bone. Just like the Frozen Horror!
Anyway, back to the big guy! With him all base-coated and washed, it was time to make him look like a Frozen Horror. I did this with a nice liberal drybrush of Cheap Acrylic white from a Big Box Retailer. I used a fun dry-brushing brush that I got from the same store in a cheap set of paint brushes and it works great for a lot less money. This dry brush included his head, arms, legs, feet, hands, and the fur-trim on his armor. I also dry-brushed the "ice" patches on him as well.
I then completed his base the same way I do all the Heroquest bases. I used Runic Grey on the stone work and a Privateer Press Matte Black to trim it. Here he is looking all cold, snowy, and frozen-like...
Of course, it took a while for the Frozen Horror to dry before I could Dry-Brush him, so I worked on the Raptor a bit too. He got Grim Black eyes, and a Green Ink wash wherever he was Blue and Green. The Fiery-Orange got a regular Light Tone wash.
For some added fun, I also white dry-brushed the "feathers" on the Raptor, and once that dried I painted them with Zealot Yellow. You can not really see it too much on the finished product, but I could not find my Daemonic Yellow. I think that would have turned out much, much brighter in the final view. He also got the usual basing.
Here is the Frozen Horror and his little buddy from a different boxed expansion.....
So, now I can show off the fully painted Frozen Horror Expansion with everything painted for it. That is a pretty decent chunk of models that I took out of my pile of potential. To finish them all off, they got a nice protective spray coat too.
What's that you say, you also want to see the two Jungles of Delthrak minis I painted up with this group? Okay, okay...... since you have been good little readers...... Here you go.....
So, now my WIP Box that I started my journeys with is done. It is time to change it up. If you thought I was going to paint the Jungles of Delthrak expansion next..... I have some bad news for you. I am going to be painting up Prophecy of Telor and Spirt Queen's Torment next.
Until Next Time! Another Heroquest Expansion down!
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