Oldskool Warzone Dark (Sept. 22 '25: Shadow Walker)

[Katsuhiko JiNNai]

It's always a pleasure to see well painted Mutant Chronicles miniatures with excellent scenery too. 

[Malebolgia]

Almost a year later and the Kickstarter of Warzone Eternal is about to be shipped...so my Necrovat juices started flowing again and I just wanted to paint more Warzone. This time I wanted to do a classic Razide paint scheme, based on an art piece by Paul Bonner. I didn't have a spare Razide, so I decided to use a Nasca Razide instead. With Eternal the Razides and Nascas more of the same, so that made it an easy choice.
So I wanted a classic colour scheme for the Razide but doubted a bit if I wanted a pinkish finish or a reddish finish. Both colours are used in the art of Mutant Chronicles and I love both. So I went with red! He was fun to paint, I love doing reds. And to make sure the skin was more vibrant I applied several glazes of inks and fluorescents to get it more intense.
Another Razide done, that's my first. And with the delivery of Eternal I will have a fourth one too. But that one must get a Nazgaroth, the classic.

[Daeothar]

Awesome work (as usual). Love the colour transitions on the arms.

Were the cables in the skintone a consious decision, or was it a happy little accident?

[Malebolgia]

Awesome work (as usual). Love the colour transitions on the arms.

Were the cables in the skintone a consious decision, or was it a happy little accident?

Cheers man! Yeah, normally I would have painted the cables in a contrasting colour. But interestingly, they are red in Bonner's art (and in the art by others too)! So I kept them in skintones

[Manu Miniatures]

Excellent stuff. The colors are spot on.

[Malebolgia]

My Warzone Eternal kickstarter will be delivered soon...so of course I am very hyped! It contains a Brotherhood starter, some Dark Legion add-ons and a Mishima force. I am really itching to paint Mishima, so I decided to pick an oldie from the 90s and splash some paint on him. I took an old Shadow Walker and went with the colours from the artwork of an old Mishima character (Toshiro). But when I got to the face I didn't want to paint it as flesh, felt a bit weird for a mystical ninja. But after some googling I found cool face paint used on Kabuki actors, called "Kumadori". That seemed perfect for this assassin to make him more sinister and almost inhuman.
All in all a lot of fun to paint and I already have the next oldschool Mishima model lined up, a Deathbringer!

[Daeothar]

Great work again, and the kabuki face paint is inspired; it fits the mini perfectly!