Abyst
by Joel Patton
I painted this guy in sections and glued it all togther afterwards. In the process of cleaning the figure, I decided I'd like to put him on a more suitable display base, so I clipped off the old one and mounted him on a sheet of slate. The skull to Abyst's right is an agitator from Reaper's new line of paint. Otherwise, the only conversion work was to change the position of the horns a bit on the demon and his staff and to bend the staff into its current sinuous shape.
I primed him white and used Reaper's Blood Red as the main color. GW's Chestnut Ink is the other primary medium I used -- every part of this miniature had this color on it at some point or another.
I tried to keep Abyst's sword low-key in appearance, but thought the sculpting work on the flames needed to be treated appropriately. I used Laszlo's corrected fire-painting scheme for the flames (that is to say, I started with hot white and worked outward to a cool red).
I'd originally intended to paint the staff in a more traditional bone color, but I liked the way that the initial ink layer looked and decided to keep it -- to me, it looks like a supremely powerful, intelligent artifact, something just barely under control.
Since I'd mounted him on a large base, I decided I ought to jazz it up a bit to keep it from looking too bare. I added the Reaper skull agitator at the front right corner, and decided to make some footprints as well, to make it look as though his hooves were melting the rock wherever they struck it.
I just made a small horseshoe shape with Zap-A-Gap and covered it in fine beach sand. To paint it, I went over it with the aforementioned corrected flame scheme.
Joel Patton
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