Malign Sorcery: Soulsnare Shackles

Here are some magical shackles that erupt from the earth to ensnare your soul. Presumably, a giant monster is approaching to finish you off, as you pull and pry in an attempt to escape!

So far, these were easy to spell effects to paint.

Malign Sorcery: Aethervoid Pendulum

I thought this thing was called the Penulitmate Pendulum, but I think I'm confusing it with a spell from the previous edition. It's a giant pendulum that cuts a straight line across the table.

The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced what I thought were mists coming off it, are actually either lightning or fire. I'm tempted to give it a quick glaze of Lamentors Yellow on the ends.

Malign Sorcery: Quicksilver Swords

More Malign Sorcery miniatures. This time it's the Quicksilver Swords. I think what these do is pretty self explanatory.

Once again, they are oddly "large", this won't stop me from using them in D&D (in particular, they should make a good Wall of Blades).

Malign Sorcery: Umbral Spell Portal

The Umbral Spell Portals from Gamesworkshop's Malign Sorcery. The mirror effect was done with Stormcast Silver base, with either Waywatcher Green glaze or Guilleman Blue glaze on top. The mists where done similar to the Cogs (but with Guilleman Blue instead of Waywatcher green for one of them).

You summon these in pairs, and it allows you to cast spells from one to the other, increasing the range of your eldritch powers.

Malign Sorcery: Chronomatic Cogs

Age of Sigmar dropped a bunch of spell effects not too long ago. I've started working through them.

Here's the Chronomatic Cogs. They are summoned onto the battlefield and allow any wizards (friend or foe) who are in base contact to manipulate time.

They are a bit on the "large" side, but that just makes them easier to paint. I'm trying something new with the mists and fumes on these. Basically an admin grey basecoat, a dry brush of Pallid Wych flesh, followed by a glaze of Waywather Green, followed by a second dry brush of Pallid Wych flesh. 

Nor'Okk Ettin

Two heads are better than one!

It's a Nor'Okk Ettin from Reaper's Bones line. I like this miniature, although he was leaning way back when I got him. I used boiling water and bent him forward, and I've noticed he's starting to lean back again (not as bad as when I bought him though).

I really liked painting this guy, he was fun. Nothing particularly fancy with regards to colors, pretty much my standard formula for these types of miniatures. According to the D&D monster manual, these things are part orc. Their heads definitely look orcy. Normally I follow GW's scheme and paint orcs green, but not these "two", I kept him closer to the Hill Giant color scheme.

Formorian Giant

I found a work around for the blogger app not uploading picture. Namely it's to not use it. I used the blogger web interface. It's not as convenient to use, but it gets the job done.

Here's a Reaper Bone's Formorian Giant. He's small for a Giant, not nearly the size of Reaper's latest giants (and also about half the size of the newish one made by Wizkids). It's an interesting miniature to paint, since he's so deformed. It made it hard to determine how the skin shading should work. And yes, I made him a red-head.

February Totals

Still no pictures, but progress is made none-the-less.

So the goal is a miniature a day for 2019 (roughly speaking) and I've fallen off it.

Miniatures painted in Feb:

• 5 Blight King
• 1 Chaos Sorceror
• 1 Dwarf Cogsmith
• 1 Dark Elf Corsair Fleetmaster
• 10 Pestigor
• 1 Beastlord w/ Battlestandard

Giving me a total of 19 for February. I've made good progress with the Sigmarite Mausoleum (worth another 30 miniatures), but can't claim it this month.

For the year, I'm at 29 miniatures and should be at 59 (30 behind). March looks like it's going to be another hard month.