Scrying Pool from Bad Goblin Games -- very cool piece of 3-D with a flickering LED
In talking to my friends Brian and Liz from Bad Goblin Games at Origins, it made me remember that I have some of their scatter terrain pieces that I've been wanting to paint up. So, one day while at my painting desk, I grabbed two of them -- plus an old 28mm stone tomb which I believe is from Reaper. The two Bad Goblin items are their LED Barrel Fire and their Scrying Pool (which wasn't listed on their website last time I checked). I painted all three of them black craft paint as primer.
A video I took at x2 speed, showing the pulsating glow & color changes of the Scrying Pool
Both the Scrying Pool and the tomb look like stone, so I did my usual gray stone formula on them. Black prime, Dark Gray wet brush, Medium gray dry brush, and then light gray highlight. They painted up very quickly, making me wonder why I let them sit on my desk for so long! The coolest thing about the Scrying Pool is that it comes with an LED light that pulsates with changing colors and three different tinted plastic disks to represent the surface of the pool. One is a swirling blue, another is a bubbling green, and the third is simply clear. You lower the disk of your choice onto the rim of the pool, while the LED and batter component is pressed up into the piece from the bottom. Watching the pool slowly change colors in a throbbing pattern was really cool. I can't wait for a chance to get it onto the table in a fantasy game!
This stone tomb has been sitting on my desk, waiting to be painted, for more than a year!
The tomb is decorated with skeletons and skulls, and obviously is the resting place of some evil being -- perhaps a Lich? Anyway, it's job on my desk for the past couple years has been to be a prop of sorts for something in the process of being expoxied or super glued. Ha, ha! Yes, something that took me less than a half hour to get ready for the tabletop, from brush priming through spray coating, sat un-started (but not unused!) for months and months. Not any more! It is inside one of my rolling carts that contain most of my scatter terrain from various periods.
This barrel fire has a flickering LED, as well - obviously meant for modern not fantasy, though!
The final piece, the Barrel Fire, took the most time to paint up. It contains a variety of surfaces and items modeled on it -- sand bags, wooden crates, a giant wooden spool for cable, cinder blocks, a trash can lid, and more! Naturally, all of those took more time to paint up. I did my usual wood recipe for the crates and piece of wood leaning against the barrel. For the cinder blocks, I did gradually lighter gray dry brushes until I was happy. The trash can and metal debris I did in Iron Wind Metals Steel first, then did a Pewter brush-on highlight. I will likely use it in my post-apocalyptic or modern games.
I like the various odds & ends modeled on this piece, such as the crates & cinder blocks
So, what else is on my painting desk? I am working on a special set of miniatures in honor of the Lead Adventure Forum's 20th Anniversary. These figures are about halfway done -- maybe more. The next miniatures that I do will be the final six Elven spearmen for my Dragon Rampant army. Of course I say that, but who knows? With Badger Games attending Historicon, there's always a chance I may pick up another pack or two of the newer releases that weren't part of the Warhost line when I made my purchase. The Elven Guardians pack has those long, halberd like things that Elrond slashes up the orcs with in the flashback scene in The Lord of the Rings. For terrain, I am FINALLY getting around to painting up one of the Pacific Theater Huts that I picked up from Diabolical Terrain at Advance the Colors 2025. Hopefully, I'll get them done before I leave for Historicon next Wednesday!
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