There are times when even the most pure of heart are
vulnerable to corruption. For wargames figure painters this is often the time
when he/she asks him/herself: ‘what colour scheme shall we paint this in?’
One cursed night this happened to me. I had found a great
model – a Reaper Bones Frost Wyrm - that I wanted to use to represent Tiszirain:
demon lord of victory and consumption. Little did I know that this aspect of
the creature is also the demon of poor painting decisions! Unaware of the
danger, I merely listened as, what I thought was my inner painter’s voice said: ‘Go on, paint it yellow. You love painting yellow…’
Then, with a slight chuckle, I heard the words: ‘oh, as a matter of fact, why not push the boat out and go for a black and yellow-striped wasp theme?’ And then, it laughed: ‘and paint my
Chilopendra minions yellow too...’ for I had recently undercoated some CP
Models Gene Reaper aliens for these demonic underlings. 'Paint a black stripe on them too,' it giggled. 'Oh dear, you've made them look worse - never mind, paint over it with... more yellow!'
By now the thing was roaring with malicious mirth, gibbering
sarcastic encouragement as I wrestled with my chosen colour scheme. ‘Green or
brown wash? I think green…’, ‘no, add more water… oh look, it’s puddling around
the bases…’, ‘just go for your standard quickstain, it won’t dirty the
yellow at all…’
By the time I got to the drybrushing I was howling in anguish!
However, battling on I clung to whatever sanity I could grasp and eventually applied the
final coat of varnish - the hateful things were done! Confident that I had exorcised
the monster, I reached for the next model in the pile – a CP Models
Three-headed Lurker that I wanted to use as a Toravor (a multi-headed burrowing
demon). With renewed confidence I opened my paints tub, as the voice sniggered:
‘Go on, paint it orange…’
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