Resolution 2019: Mythic Battles Pantheon

For Athena I quite like the image with all the gold – it makes her look divine and powerful.

For Hecate I like the all black/dark grey colour scheme. Although I also like the purple dress with the star patterns.

With Artemis I like the image of her with the translucent white dress and the moon. The winged picture also looks cool but I’m not going to convert the model.

For Aphrodite the all gold appearances looks very different, but then again a white dress with white hair and some sort of glow effect would also look good.

All the skin was basecoated in rakarth flesh, washed with reikland fleshshade, and then highlighted with flayed one flesh and then pallid wych flesh.

The white clothes were basecoated celestra grey and then highlighted ulthuan gey followed by  white scar.

Aphrodite’s yellow dress was base coated iyanden darksun, washed casandora yellow and then highlighted flash gitz yellow.

The blond hair was basecoated tausept ochre, washed seraphim sepia and then highlighted bubonic brown.

The brunette hair was basecoated mournefang brown, washed agrax earthshade and finished with a skrag brown highlight.

Hecate’s hair and snakes were painted incubi darkness and then washed nuln oil.

The red areas of Athena were basecoated mephiston red, washed carroburg crimson and then highlighted evil sunz scarlet followed by wild rider red.

Athena’s owl was basecoated zandri dust. I then stipled it with mournefang brown. Then it was washed agrax earthshade and drybrushed ushabti brown followed by screaming skull.

All the gold was basecoated retributor armour, washed with seraphim sepiaand then highlighted with auric armour gold followed by liberator gold.

All the silver areas were basecoated ironbreaker. Aphrodite’s swords were given a light wash of drakenhof nightshade, while the silver on Hecate was washed with nuln oil. All silver areas were then highlighted with runefang steel.

All their lips were given a bloodletter glaze.

To give the impression of magical auras each goddess had their eyes glazed a different colour. Guilliman blue for Artemis, lamenters yellow  for Athena and Aphrodite, and waywatcher green for Hecate.

It seems each batch of mini’s takes me two weeks. I think this is because I tend to paint a certain number of colours per session, rather than a certain number of models. So this time I’ll tackle five models at once to see if I can speed up my progress a bit.

It was a lot harder to find cool reference images for some of these gods. Nothing really inspires me about Hermes or Apollo so I guess they will end up much like the “standard” colour schemes.

As god of the sun, Helios needs to come across as blazing hot. The “standard” mythic battles colour scheme doesn’t capture that at all. At the very least I will paint his hair and perhaps the halo as if they are red hot.

Both Persephone and Hades spend most of their time in the underworld so I’ll paint them with pale skin. For these two gods I also think I’ll avoid gold and paint their metallic areas silver instead. This will leave both models looking very pale so I’ll contrast that with black or dark purple clothing.

Hade’s and Persephone’s skin started with a rakarth flesh base, was then washed reikland fleshshade and then highlighted with flayed one flesh followed by pallid wych flesh.

The skin of the other gods was basecoated bugman’s glow, washed reikland fleshshade and then highlighted cadian fleshtone followed by kislev flesh. I did start to paint Helios’ chest this way but then I realised he’s actually wearing armour.

The purple clothes were painted naggaroth night, washed druchii violet and then highlighted with xereus purple followed by genestealer purple.

The blue clothes were painted caledor sky, washed drakenhof nightshade, and then highlighted teclis blue followed by lothern blue.

The red clothes were painted mephiston red, washed carroburg crimson, then highlighted evil sunz scarlet followed by wild rider red. The only exception was Helios’ skirt (?) which was washed druchii violet to make it look slightly different from his leggings and cape.

Persephone’s hair was basecoated abaddon black, highlighted with mechanicus standard grey and then washed with nuln oil.

Hades’ hair and beard were basecoated mechanicus standard grey and then highlighted celestra grey.

The leather areas were basecoated mournefang brown, washed agrax earthshade and then highlighted skrag brown.

Helios’ hair was basecoated wild rider red and then highlighted fiery orange followed by flash gitz yellow.

Apollo’s hair was basecoated xv-88 then highlighted with bubonic brown.

The metal areas on Hades and Persephone were basecoated leadbelcher, washed druchii violet, and then highlighted ironbreaker followed by runefang steel.

The gold areas were basecoated retributor armour, washed with seraphim sepia, then highlighted with auric armour gold followed by liberator gold.

Hades’ and Persephone’s eyes were given a glaze of bloodletter. Apollo and Hermes’ eyes were given guilliman blue glazes. Helios’ eyes were glazed lamenters yellow mixed with bloodletter to give and orange glaze.

The plan of doing more models in a batch seems to have worked as I’ve managed to paint five gods this time and I still finished the batch in two weeks.

For my next batch of mini’s I’m going to do Pan and other similar nature themed models. These are Pan, Orion, the Satyrs, Echidna, the Colchidian Dragon, Cecrops, and Marsyas.

I struggled to find cool artwork to inspire these guys, but I plan to stick to natural looking greens and browns across the lot of them to tie them in to nature and to allow me to paint them all simultaneously.