Cleaning up the ancient articles, I found these guys from WAY back in 2017! They belong to my good friend Will. These guys were some of the final ones I did for him.
Oddly enough, I never took him up on his offer to actually TRY the game. One day, but not THESE days of quarantine and isolation!
Blast from the past!
And here are the final ArcadiaQuest models for Will. These guys are cute, cuddly, lovable and oh so deadly!
This post has been months coming... At least 8 months in the making. It just waited in my Draft box...
This is Will's entire demon court for ArcadiaQuest...
Here are Will's Angels assembled in a single group.
If you have an eagle eye, you will notice that one of the angels was not added here previously... so here is it. The painter's highlight on this one for me is the hair, which is not quite blonde, not quite white, but somewhere in the middle.
Another ArcadiaQuest angel! This guy has his wings on fire! The pictures do not give it justice, but it is the highlight of the model. I wanted the rest of the model to be somewhat drab to draw the eye to the color.
More ArcadiaQuest from Will's stash of minis! This is the last big batch of models from the Kickstarters he participated in. It is from the Inferno set, I believe.
For this batch of models, since they are angels, he wanted them to have them be on a cloud-like effect. So I painted the base blue with some light blue locations where I added two or three layers of snow-flock to create a cloud-like effect. I think it finally came out pretty nice.
The final batch of Pets for Will's ArcadiaQuest. I am quite fond of the Mogwai and the turtle!
Here are a few ArcadiaQuest pets I have been holding to for quite a while now. These are more of Will's collection.
In my previous post, I posted about the Marillion jester from the band's early and quite hallowed days. Like many fan, I prefer their early stuff (with Fish).
I'm not fully satisfied with the picture, but not with the model itself, I really like.
Six more from Will's Inferno collection.
The first group includes a witch, Baron Samedi, and a Tiefling. The witch came out really nice, her sculpt is very good and quite dynamic. She comes out as very anime-ish and the paint job really brought out all the character of the model. Baron Samedi has a similarly great sculpt. Finally, the third one is a demon-woman whose red color
The second group is also pretty cool. First is Kate Beckinsale's character in Van Helsing. I really like her hair. The next guy is Perseus as presented by Harry Hamlin in the original (and still best) Clash of the Titans.
The second group is also pretty cool. First is Kate Beckinsale's character in Van Helsing. I really like her hair. The next guy is Perseus as presented by Harry Hamlin in the original (and still best) Clash of the Titans. The third and final one has is the jester. This jester was painted based on the jester imagery from the early Marillion, whom I learned that Will was also a fellow fan. All the best freaks are here, as they say!
Six more for Will's collection! The two I have a particular story for are in the second group.
The lady in the center looked very much like one of the characters in the Dark Crystal. I gave her a big white dot in her eye to represent the glow of the crystal she holds. The wings came out really nice I think and is another highlight of the mini.
The big guy... He game out MUCH darker than I wanted, and though I liked his skin color. I painted his beard using black, but was completely invisible over the skin. I was faced with a choice: do I repaint the model in a lighter color OR do something. I really liked the dark skin as he really popped when placed with the whole group. So I opted to repaint his beard and eyebrows. The end result is a rather unique-looking character.
More from the Inferno set!
The First pic has three character... none of which I have much to say about.
The second group has the two Drow and a mad alchemist. I really find interesting that the male drow's eyebrows and face-dot forms a big eye!
I am currently working on Will's collection of ArcadiaQuest - Inferno miniatures. Here are the first three.
The guy on the left is a type of Greco-Roman warrior, a Hercules of sort.
The guy in the middle could be one of several guys. Gandalf or Moses parting the Red Sea. I am particularly happy how the white of his tunic and the white of his hair and beard came out. One is really white/cotton and the other is gray. Nice effect on a simple paint job.
The last character is a Xena lookalike. She has a simple palette but a great sculpt.
The final of the original ArcadiaQuest, Nina the crossbowwoman. I will be honest and she is not as exciting as some of the others. In fact, she is rather plain as a model: fully armored with bright red hair. I am ambivalent on her.. the sculpt felt uninspired.
I can't say I'm overly proud of this model... There is nothing that pops about her. This is bad to say but I do not know what I could've done to give her some pop. I did do a three tone work of metal and two for her hair.
As this is "Friday of the dead" this dude is perfect! Coming to the end of Will's collection of ArcadiaQuest models... This guy is the Dread King, a massive, hulking beast of a monster. I did a few unique touches on this guy.
First off, the "skin" is a darker shade of sickly putrid green, the result is a surprising odd-tone.
Next, the eyes... The character card had him with dark red eyes with glowing red pupils. I tried a few times to get it right, but the contrast of colors did not pop... so I gave him a very light shade of grey/blue and then he started looking at me. I mean it was creepy. I finished the detailing with him looking and judging me.
Another element was the nails. Here I tried a few things, the guide had them white but doing so would not work. After a few tries, I did something strange: I left them as is and planned to return to them later.
The teeth I painted bright white, enhancing the skull appearance of the face.
Next, I got into the sword. Basic silver-metal work. Then the sword plate I put it gold. The three rivets called to me, so I made them red, the same red as the pupils. That done, I extended the "eyes" down, forming a face of sort. From that moment on, the sword looked odd and dark. I could see in his eyes that this creep approved of the creepiness.
The blade itself had two-tones, with a big central area. I gave it a few wet brushing of the interior with a red and metal with successive colors having more red than metal. As I looked on, I got a second idea... have blood dripping from this central zone onto the ground. The effect is pretty effective, especially the small piece that "overflows" on the side of the base.
By now, the model was done. It was time to return to what I had neglected... the nails (see? see what I did there?) By then an evening had gone by and I came back to the model to finish the job. But really, I could not find which color to put on the nails. Seriously, they looked good as they were, with that dirty brown color... So I left them that way!
That's it. The Dread King was done. He reminds me of a very large version of Zanbar Bone from Ian Livingstone's "City of Thieves". Scary.
