Studio pose for Caine2
Fresh on the heels of my Madrak1 repose, I came across another caster I’ve wanted to play, but disliked the pose. First off, he appears to be shooting all around himself in a circle, this seems to line up perfectly with Caine1’s feat and not Caine2, Next, why does he have to be shooting in two different directions simultaneously? It almost seems more like he’s just randomly spraying some bullets around and hoping for the best.
Build up around the shoulder pin
Now that we’ve pinned, bent and glued the arms into their new positions we need to bulk up the area around the pins. You want to just get the general shape filled in but you don’t need any detail and you want to make sure it’s all below what should be the finished level. We’ll harden this bulked up layer which will make it easier to add on a thinner muscle layer that we can work on more easily than if the entire joint were soft. (more…)
Repose of Madrak1: axe is no across his body
Madrak is such an interesting character: he aims to unite the Kriels, while being tied to an axe that will end the world. His prime incarnation has seen two sculpts, both of them awful, in my opinion. (more…)
Horgenhold Forge Guard
I’ve completed the min-unit of Forge Guard. I purchased the repackaged max unit, but painting units is painful enough without doing all 10 at once. Also I only need 6 for the list I have in mind. The thought is to have these guys screen for my Storm Strider. Weapon Masters with reach should discourage models wanting to take free strikes to get past them. Though at SPD 4 I’ve got to make sure they get out ahead of the Strider enough to screen for it without significantly slowing it down.
Initially when painting began I though they were wall Hammerfall Khaki and this was a simple unit, but once you get brush to model you realize there’s a lot of detail here. There’s the green shoulders and elbow armor, the gold chest piece, which I them matched to the rear armor piece which isn’t shown in the studio scheme. There’s leather straps, green pants beneath the armor plates, red insignia and so on.
Backpacks, lots of backpacks
Each model in the unit sports an identical backpack, topped with a bed roll and hung with a mug. For the bases I consulted the old IK World Guide to see what Horgenhold was like: mountain and cold. So I went with larger grit for the bases, dry brushing the Battlefield Brown with Bloodstone Red, then Morrow White. I then used Army Painter winter tufts and snow flock to complete it.
The leader
The only model with a fully exposed face is the leader, and I enjoyed painting it. It came out well, especially the eyes.
I’m looking forward to getting these guys on the table and I really should paint up the other 4 eventually….someday… Have I mentioned I don’t like painting units?