"Ribbit" - Frog Monsters - Part 1

By the power of Sadu-Hem...

- Seeds of Destruction

Welcome one and all to The Art of Caesura!

Fasten your seat-belts, because today we're going to hop in the time machine and travel ALLLLLLLL the way back to June 2019 (just over 5 years ago)!

I have been painting a LOT of Hellboy on the blog of the past few months. But when I finished last week's Lobster Johnson (which was actually a few months ago at this point) my hobby attention was abruptly caught by something else (which shall appear on the blog at a later date). So I thought that would be the end of Hellboy content until I was next possessed by the urge to paint more paranormal agents. 

I have been painting quite a bit in the meantime, but a lot of it isn't quite finished, so I was looking back through my blog drafts (posts that I had started at one stage or other, or had just written the title of as an aide memoir, but have never seen the light of day). AND I FOUND A COUPLE GEMS!!

I found today's post, the photos from which I had uploaded on June 20th, 2019 but I had never written nor released the post!

So let's follow a much younger me as I prepared the Frog Monsters from Hellboy the Board Game. 

Readers nowadays know that I no longer have the constitution to batch paint 20 miniatures at once, but those were the halcyon days of youth (or at least my early 30's). That being said, I clearly didn't have the vouloir back then either - because, as I write this now, these guys are still sitting - half finished - beside me here!

Anyway, as with any board game miniature, I began by cleaning all of the mould lines and scrubbing the minis with an old toothbrush in soapy water to remove the release agent from the moulding process. 

There were a few small gaps (where the arm meets the shoulder) but I hope to God I didn't bother filling them (I can't remember at this point). 

With the 20 Frog Monsters scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed, I began spraying them, planning to go "full Contrast" on these guys. 

I sprayed half of the models with Wraith Bone and the other half with Grey Seer in order the give the finished contrast paints a different look over the different undercoats. 

With all 20 of them sprayed, I then split each half into half again and painted half of the Grey Seer ones with Contrast Militarum Green and half with Contrast Creed Camo and same for the Wraith Bone ones. 

For those keeping track at home, I now had 5 that were Contrast Militarum Green over Grey Seer, 5 that were Contrast Militarum Green over Wraith Bone, 5 that were Contrast Creed Camo over Grey Seer and 5 that were Contrast Creed Camo over Wraith Bone. Phew!

And that's where I left them. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the painting green process. So, half a decade later, I still have all of their clothes and details to do. 

Can I do it? Tune in next week to The Art of Caesura to find out!

Reading: Rules of Civility - Amor Towles

Watching: Supacell (Rapman, Netflix 2024) 

Next Week: 

A chorus of croaks...