Hail Glorious Readers! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
What an exciting past two weeks it has been, with my deep dive into Citadel's new Contrast Paints, and then taking a look at the rest of my time at Warhammer Fest 2019! This week we're heading back to where we left off with Hellboy: The Board Game.
What is typically the un-sexiest part of a miniature board game? The tokens! However I always like to paint the tokens first because they are the components that you use most for every single game. Even though Big Red might be sitting one out to make room for other agents, someone will still be investigating and doom will still be impending!
Speaking of impending doom, in Hellboy: The Board Game (H:TBG) the end of every turn is marked by "The Doom Phase" which, among other mischief, often involves moving the Impending Doom Marker along its track towards an (often gruesome) end for the heroes. If the Doom Marker gets to the end of the line before the Agents have completed their mission, they are ambushed by the boss, and have to go into the big boss battle at a disadvantage.
As you can see, the Impending Doom Marker itself is Hellboy's fist surrounded by tentacles!
To paint this component, I started the fist with a 50:50 mix of Mephiston Red + Doombull Brown gave a recess shade with Nuln Oil, drybrushed with increasing amounts of Mephiston Red and then pure Evil Sunz Scarlett. This meant I could be quite messy with the drybrush, because I would be going back to paint the tentacle.
The tentacle was painted with Stegadon Scale Green with more and more Sotek green mixed in, then Lothern Blue added to the mix and finished with Gauss Blaster Green on the suckers. Once I had coated the tentacle in a couple heavy coats of gloss varnish, I was happy with the contrasting textures between the fist and the tentacle.
While the heroes of the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence) are exploring their surrounds, they might investigate clues, gaining insights that will help them fight the big baddie they'll be facing at the end of the mission.
I decided to paint these Insight Markers in a similar manner to how I had painted the coins from The World of Smog - just to give them a bit more gravitas.
The BPRD symbols gave a great reservoir for Agrax Earthshade over Screaming Bell. I worked on one side at a time to avoid unfortunate pooling mishaps. Once both sides were dry, I gave them a quick drybrush of Hashut Copper. Boom. Done!
The last piece to the token puzzle was the Information Gathered Marker. This is the Impending Doom's happy counterpart, showing how much the agents have learned before getting plunged into a boss battle. It is represented by an ancient tomb...
I illuminated the first letter as an "R" (for the first letter of my name), but reflected afterwards that perhaps it should have been an "H" for "Hellboy". I was chuffed when James Hewitt (the games designer for Hellboy: The Board Game (and Silver Tower, and Adeptus Titanicus, etc...) commented that perhaps it stood for "Rules for Hellboy: The Board Game". I think that's awesome!
And there we have them, most of the tokens for Hellboy: The Board Game complete!
I'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!
Watching: Startrek Discovery
Listening: Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack
Gaming: Blood Bowl 2
Next Week:
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