Thursday 14 September 2017

The Ice Heart Cultists


"Hans... uh... are we the baddies?" - Guy wearing a skull as a mask.

I wanted to paint a little group of baddies so went a-digging through the stockpile. These are taken from Ral Partha's Southern Death Cult, a mix of robed cultists and undead. I pulled out all the models with skull masks for the project. Again, very solid sculpts, very detailed with an old-school 80s aesthetic. Exactly the style I like. The leader, on the far left, has a nice series of glyphs running along the seams of his cloak which reminded me of painting Teclis and Tyrion, back in the day.

The Cult of the Ice Heart are a group of ritualists obsessed with the destruction of the world as we know it. Their goal is to plunge the world into an eternal winter and earn the favour of some manner of eldritch elemental force. Despite the name, they can generally be found in temperate climates.

These actually flew straight off the painting table. After basing and washing, I used blue ink on the swords to give a magical effect which looks good but leaves me a bit nervous about messing with the glyphs on the blades as any paint applied is unlikely to blend well into the shading of the sword. The wash is too heavy but we'll come back to them at some future point. They'll certainly serve as they are.

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