Saturday, 1 January 2022

Mage Knight Crypt Worm repaint

I got a job lot of Mage Knight figures super cheap a while back to repaint as statues for scenery.  There were also a few that I thought would work well repainted as either 15mm monsters or as HeroQuest monsters.

It's behind you!

This Crypt Worm was a dull greeny black colour to start but I removed it from the base, glued to a 2p piece, textured with soil/tile grout and resprayed it with Wilkinson's grey primer.

"Don't come any closer or I'll shoot!"

The creature was repainted with various bone, tan and khaki colours, then washed with sepia and flesh inks.  The teeth were repainted with bonewhite and highlighted with a touch of white on the tips. The mouth was painted purple, then the tongue red, with a glaze of red ink to unify the colours.

Eyes in the back of it's... er... back. Hmm.

Some details not particularly visible until I repainted were the eye-like protuberances all over the back of the creature.  These were all painted bright white with a black pupil and a yellow ink glaze.  They didn't turn out quite as bright as I'd hoped, even with a black ink line around them, but they look OK.

It will be a suitably disturbing creature to appear unexpectedly during a game to terrorise both sides when they least expect it...

3 comments:

  1. Awesome repaint!

    Some of the old Mage Knight and D&D plastics are pretty decent when they get a fresh coat of paint and make for properly looming monsters in 15mm scale!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, they are rather variable in quality but some are great!

      Delete