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Deep within the hellish realms of past Kickstarters, we proudly present two smaller demons from the Bones II range: The Fly demon and their bloody sibling.

(posting by Antonia)

The minis this week are comparatively plain, especially the blood demon, who doesn’t show many details. Still I really liked painiting it, I just adjusted my concepts accordingly. The Fly demon mini has some interesting variation in textures, fur, scales, smooth legs and the veined membranous wings.

When I painted the Blood demon, I took the name quite literally and imagined a creature made from solified blood:

For the Blood demon I used a medium red base coat and added layers of different reds in washes and mixtures of red paint + water based glue to get a thick, glossy and semi-translucent finish. I could maybe add more layers, but for now I’m quite happy with the result. The shallow detail on the mini doesn’t matter here, I think it rather helps creating the feeling of ‘semi-liquid strangeness’.

For the base I sculpted rough ‘waves’ and painted them the same way as the demon, to make it look like he just emerged from a boiling sea of blood, resting (and dripping) on the black stone beneath him.

 

To work with the various textures, I painted the Fly demon mostly with liners and washes instead of traditional paints:

The eyes and the base are the only parts of the miniature where I used regular (in case of the eyes metallic) paint, the rest I painted with Reaper washes and liners, right on the white bones plastic, which was really fast and gave a nice, watercolor-y look. Dirty too, but since I imagined that critter as somehow plague/decay-related that’s okay with me. I will definitely try that again on other projects, I just have to make sure I use the right brands of liners/washes, as some (like Army Painter’s) don’t work on bare bonesium.

 

Dirk went with a “grey with red slime” color scheme from the D&D 3.5 Monster Manual:

Since the miniature had a hue that gave our camera problems, you see two versions of the picture: The left one shows the hightlights and true colors better, the right one gives you an idea of the great lava-details Dirk created on the base. He painted the demon in a steel grey and added red slime with water effect paste which he colored with red wash. I like the jelly-like look of the slime, you can imagine how it slowly runs off the thin limbs. Wonderfully disgusting 😀

 

Michael also managed to paint two demons, inspired by art resp. nature:

He wrote that the Blood demon was painted after D&D art, either official or not, which he remembered with a bright, unnatural green color. For the bloody mucus he used water effect too – which brand was that? And did you color it first, or after it dried, like Dirk did? Cool bright contrast between the demon and the slime, it definitely looks unnatural!

For the Fly demon Michael used a real species, the blue bottle fly, as a reference, with green spots for extra eekiness. I really like the result, although I’ve never seen one of those flies in real life, I guess they are native to the US? The color scheme works great anyway! The flight peg is also a nice idea, do you have plans for the minis already or did you just modify them for fun?

 

Jim used D&D descriptions of the Babau and the Chasme as a base:

I like the smooth and realistic (if you can say something like that about demons?) paintjob on those two, and the bases look great! The lava is very well done and the grass adds much needed variation to the Fly demons base, I should really flock parts of it too. Did you use metallic color on the wings, or does it just look like that on the picture? And the eyes literally seem to glow, awesome!

 

Paul wasn’t too happy with the low details and added some of his own:

For the face he used a 40k Harlequin mask and swapped the right hand too. He also cut off the horn to make the demon more generic, and gave him *ahem* another one further down instead. To keep our page tasteful, as he says, he blacked out the newly added ‘anatomy’, though. Probably better, I might not have thought of that (we barbaric Europeans are not as sensible I suppose). Anyway, great conversion and paintjob, it looks very smooth and professional! The cracked earth effect is cool too, which brand of color did you use?

 

this week’s gallery:

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This entry was posted by Antonia & Dirk Vogel.