Fenrir growth WIP

Couldn't hold back so I had start painting the head of Fenrir. Mostly I was curious about the sculpted growths around the cables and the bottom of the head and how they would turn out. Over all I am sort of happy with the things, They do not stick out to much from the original design as to look out of place. But the painting have to be better... but there is just so much of it. So far I have base painted it with some flesh color and green and chestnut ink, and drybrushed it up to white. I thin k I need to go in and paint some more solid colors along the edges etc to get it looking more wet. Drybrushing has a tendency to make the surfaces look a bit dry.

Fenrir head WIP

For the last couple of weeks I have been working on Fenrir's head. A build that was supposed to be a quick more or less standard Reaver build has turned into a sculpting nightmare. My initial idea was to put most effort into the armor plating and some nice chaos effects. But then I thought, wait a minute, the chaos Reaver has these chaos weby growth on the insides, so lets make some on the super structure beneath the armor, it will make it more chaosy. Well that escalated quite quickly as can be seen on the underside of the head. Now I am working on the knees, shoulders and wrists to make the same effect.. and sadly to the same amount so that it fits. This will take time and slow the build.

The webs are made out of two to five layers of green stuff sculpted one layer at a time at one location. I have learned not to work on multiple locations with GS as it is to easy to ruin what has been done with a  finger. I think the webs give the titan a more organic look, and I will try to paint them to look like inflamed skin and sinews...

The crew also got a bad spell of things growing in and out of them. First I was keen on keeping as much of the detail of the original models as much as possible since they are beautifully sculpted. But that did not give them enough chaos look so I added a few more layers...

I have stated with the painting and will hope fully have something to show soon.

The Easter Executioner

It happened again... ,the Easter bunny (the Wify) delivered an Easter egg... and mixed in with the candy was the small plastic parts of a Master of Executions (don't try this with small kids). So after carefully going through the candy and picking out the parts I set to work (after finishing the candy).

The model is really cool with the long robe and the inlaid bone parts. I decided to just paint it as is with out any modifications. For the armor I went with my crimson metallic that I have on the Raptors and the Dark Apostle. I really like how this color looks from a bit of, but up close it could have some more depth. I will have to work on it. The robes were painted in my customary brown leather look. The bone parts were originally left in white metallic after the base painting of the armor. I though it looked rather good with them as "sculpted" metal pieces I was not sure if that was the look I was going for and after consulting with the Wife I decided to go for a more classic bone color. The executioner ax got the power blade treatment that I have used for my dark angels, custodes and raptors, i.e. a dark (black) blade with a distinct colored glow, in this case a purple. The painting process was quite straight forward as I could do it with the body fully assembled, only leaving the had and the backpack separate.

All in all it was a nice model to paint, especially as it was a surprise present. It also kept me from going out into the garden working, which I should not do as I have a sore through and a minor head ache. Normally this would not have stooped me but in these times it is better to be safe than sorry.

Saint Dominica

The forth of the saint in Triumph of Saint Katherine, saint Dominica is the bearer of the Ebon Chalice. The model as such is not that highly detailed so it was a fairly quick paint job. I am not sure if I shall try to get some of the edges of the robes painted scarlet or something to bring in more color. But that will have to wait until I have all of the saints done so that I can do them together and get a cohesive look to them. Next up is Saint Mina...

Saint Lucia and Fenrir WIP

This week I decided to get some painting done apart from working on my titans. So this time it was Saint Lucia that came under the brush. This is a quite "simple" model as it is mostly black robes and more black robes and not to much details. The largest piece standing out form the model it the  hart in the standard. I tried to give it a deep black to read luster and I am pretty happy with the ho wit turned out.

When it comes to my titans I am starting to wounder what is wrong with me. First I bought a Warbringer because it was a new model and I thought that it would be nice to build one. Then I realized that it has no intenals... and as ALL my titans and knights has one I would need to build one...  and considering how long it took me to get Varangians internals done I came up with the idea of buying a Reaver and just give it one of the laser blasters I had leftover from Varangian, it would be a straight forward build with an easy weapon swap...





... but then I got carried away with my ideas for the titan, which include a tone of green stuff work, much more than I would have to do for the internal of the Warbringer... so now I am stuck with a tone of work to do before I can start painting... so does it mean I should buy another titan just to get some painting done?

Fenrir WIP

I have slowly been working on the assembly of Fenrir, especially the legs and feet which are a true horror story. It turns out that what I want and what the model is capable of is not necessarily the same. My initial idea was to have a more human like stride, with one for more or less in front of the other...  well... that is not possible. An even making a "stride" seams to be beyond the models articulation... it is more of a small shuffling step. I know that I was complaining about the warlords actual walking capability and the Reaver is no better, at least the warlord was easy to pose...  the amount of pistons in the Reaved foot and lower led is ridiculous, and it all has to go in at the same time.

So to minimize my problems I decided to just glue in the front and back leg pistons in a fist posing. the central leg is left unattached and the pistons are just glued into the foot section so that I can pull it out and attach the side pistons later. It is the front and back pistons that determine the angel of the legs in forward directions so they are most important. As I wanted a walking pose I raised the back foot onto the front toe which also meant I have to build that leg first as it would be in the most extreme positions as to the piston positions, then I adjusted the other leg to mach the height at the hip. All in all I am not to displeased with the result even if it was not what I was hoping for... 

I have also finished the cowl of the head and painted it. It really turned out great so I will go ahead with the theme of the titan..  just need to do a lot of other stuff like it all over which will take time. It also meant that I needed to trim the back carapace quite a bit to fit the ears...  but in the end I do not think it is visible.

Then there is the crew that also need to have the chaos treatment....  so much GS work to do...  but it is fun even if it takes a lost of time.

Dark Apostle with Disciples

It's been that time of year once again were I add yet another year to the tally, and this year I got a Dark Apostle and his Disciples from my wife. As tradition dictates I went straight to work. The model is once again of such quality and richness of detail that it takes forever to paint with a high risk of having to revisit areas as you notice even more details that you forgot to paint. It is also necessary to paint it in sub assemblies to be able to get to all the details. I greatly enjoy painting these as it really gives you some bang for the buck, but I do not envy those trying to make a full army of these new highly detailed models (or it might just be that I am getting old and do not have the energy of the young). All in all I think it is great to be a collector of models rather than a gamer and I think I could fully occupy my self with just painting character models.

As for colors I went with the same metallic crimson that I used on last years raptors. I really like the effect. The robes were done in a matching back to purple shade. I tried to avoid going to overboard with the shade here but they still got some distinctive highlights. As usual I would like to point out that the effects on the new models are not to my liking as I simply can not get them to match the rest of the model and removing them is to much work.



All in all I am really happy with how it turned out, and it has a special place in my collection (and heart) as it was a gift from the wife. Hope the rest of you also like it.