Surtr head WIP

Finally inspiration struck like a thunder bolt from a clear sky. I just knew what Surtr would look like. First of is the head as I already had it washed. I started out with a picture of the Warbringer head and pulled it into paint. I split the head down the front, moving the central pieces apart and added a shin guard (or beard as it turned out). Also rounded of the eyes a bit on the top and cut back the forehead shield.

Once I had done this digitally I when into the garage and brought out the jewelers saw and started carving the head a part, much as I had done in paint. I had to use a scalpel to cut away some of the pieces that needed to go to open up the front of the face. That was a bit fiddly but resin is really easy to carve so with some patience it was all done. Once the pieces were glued back on in their new positions I started working with green stuff. For the helm all the joints etc had to be covered to smooth things out. Also the beard needed some smoothing, and still does. There is still a lot of details needed like rivets etc but that would have to wait. First I needed to fill out the gap with some underlying texture in the recently created gap. First I thought of adding a grill like on the warlord head...  but then inspiration struck again...  off course there would be a demon face looking out form behind the face guard...  and there we are. Once the face is done and I see that everything fit I will move on the the final details and the head will be done. At least for now. I am thinking on adding a horse mane to the to top of the head like a roman helmet... but that will interfere with the neck shield of the body. I could just leave it of as I did on Varangian but I am not sure how that will look just yet. Need to build the body box before that so I can try out some options. At least I am started. I also have some radical ideas for the decorations of the armor plates...  but more about that later.