Pyre Troll
Pyre Troll
As part of the “alternate” battle box, the Pyre troll was up for getting painted during the Journeyman League. I had so much fun painting this guy. I used an air brush to lay down the base purple color, then used the air brush to apply some gross highlights from the top, as well as the pink belly area. Then I went in with two-brush-blending and added additional contrast. I was quite pleased to have made use of the airbrush for something beyond priming, basing or sealing. Then came the fists and the real fun began. For the uninitiated: painting yellow is about as hard as it gets. You need to thin it way out to get it go on smooth, at which point you can easily need 5 or more layers to get coverage, and if it’s a dark color it’s essentially impossible. You need to base with something lighter first (MWB or MWH, Moldy Ochre, something with coverage to it. For this model in order to get a solid base coat of yellow I turned back the airbrush. I masked off the body of the model using plastic cling wrap. I can’t remember what I based the fists with now, probably MWH or Jack Bone. Then I laid down several coats of Cygnus Yellow until it was a solid yellow. Using the airbrush allowed for lots of very thin layers, whereas using a brush would have clogged details by the time I got solid coverage.
Flaming Fists!
Once I had a solid yellow base I went with ember orange for where the flame starts to cool off as it gets farther from the fists, then some Khador Red Hightlight and Base and eventually mixed with a bit of Thamar black for the extreme tips. The mouth interior of the mouth took a couple tries as it first was too flat yellow, so I added additional orange red to give it some visual interest.
As is often the case with PP plastics, the only downside to painting this model was the awful mold lines that I apparently failed to completely remove from the arms and shoulders.