Black Mass (x5)

This WarpLand miniature squad brings five Black Mass entities to your tabletop, each one a churning confluence of Void corruption and the remnants of whatever wretched soul it consumed. Standing approximately 40mm from base to top, these resin models depict amorphous, slime-drenched forms erupting from the ground, their translucent masses swallowing broken weapons, skeletal remains, and shattered armour whole. No two poses are alike: one surges forward with a sword piercing its bulk, another coils around a horned skull, a third rears back around a rusted polearm, while the remaining two spill outward in cascading waves of corrupted matter threaded with grasping bone-white hands.

In WarpLand, the Void does not merely kill. It absorbs. The Black Mass is what happens when a battlefield is left too long beneath the creeping influence of Doomgape, when the dead are not burned and the wounds in reality go unstitched. Warriors slain in The Grunge, Skull Riders ambushed on the road to Abraxas, Iron Lords dragged down into the bogwater, all of them feed something. The mass grows, inherits their fury, and moves with a hunger that has no name. Cults in Obsidia speak of the Black Mass as a sacrament. Everyone else runs.

Each model in this squad of five is packed with surface detail, from dripping ooze strands and bubbling pools at the base to embedded skulls, corroded blades, and snapped arrow shafts locked within the creature's body. The multipart construction, up to five parts per model, allows for clean assembly and makes painting the interior detail far more accessible before final gluing. Bases are oval 40mm-style scenic bases with integrated ground scatter, ready to receive your chosen basing texture with no gap-filling required.

Sculpted by Taiga Miniatures and licensed for use with WarpLand, these models are cast in high-detail grey resin. Supplied unpainted and unassembled. Suitable for players and collectors aged 15 and over. Plastic glue is not suitable for resin; use cyanoacrylate adhesive.

The Black Mass sits in the intersection of necrotic flesh, supernatural ooze, and corroded metal. The painted studio models shown use a cold blue-grey palette with teal glazes and warm gold accents to lift the absorbed weapons and skulls from the surrounding mass. This guide replicates that approach using widely available hobby paints and makes full use of the extraordinary surface texture that makes this WarpLand miniature so rewarding to paint.

1. Prime

• Prime with a mid-grey aerosol or brush-on primer. Avoid pure black as the translucent mass effect depends on light bouncing back through multiple thin layers.
• Check all recesses are covered, particularly inside the open mouths and around embedded weapons.

2. Armour Base

• Basecoat the entire amorphous body with a dark blue-grey, such as a mix of dark slate blue and a small amount of off-white.
• Apply a wash of dark navy or black-blue ink across the whole model to settle into the drip lines, pores, and fold recesses.

3. Trim and Details

• Drybrush the raised surfaces and drip tips with a lighter cool grey, building up to an almost white edge on the highest points to simulate the translucent quality of the ooze.
• Pick out skulls and bone fragments with a warm bone basecoat, wash with brown-black ink, then highlight with pale ivory on edges and brow ridges.

4. Weapons

• Paint absorbed blades and polearms with a dark iron or gunmetal basecoat, then wash with a brown-black rust mix.
• Apply a thin streak of orange-brown stipple to suggest deep rust, then highlight the very edge of surviving metal with bright silver. This WarpLand miniature rewards contrast between corroded steel and the luminous body surrounding it.

5. Weathering

• Glaze the body with thin coats of teal or turquoise ink, concentrating in the mid-tones between the darkest recesses and the brightest highlights. This creates the signature cold luminescence visible on the studio models.
• Add a very thin glaze of sickly yellow-green around the open mouths and leading edges to suggest acidic or toxic emanation from the Void corruption within.

6. Bases

• Basecoat the integrated scenic base with dark brown, drybrush with muddy ochre, then apply a final light drybrush of pale sand. Add a gloss varnish pooled around the base of the model to suggest the creature has left a slick trail of Void residue wherever it has passed.