Diesel DM

The Mountain King – finished at last

And here is the Mountain King, completed. He came out better than I had hoped.  It also didn’t take nearly as long as I was starting to think it would.  The problem was just not having time to paint, which seemed to drag it out.  In my last update I had attached all the extra chains, since then I primed them (brush on primer), then painted them using the standard metal technique shown in the Trollbloods book. One thing to keep in mind before painting the chains is to bend them into positions that will allow at least one additional contact point for more glue.  The chains are pretty sturdy, but giving two glue points makes them even stronger.

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The King, with head attached!

Since update #4 I got the leather loin cloth painted and painted all the metals directly attached to the MK. For the chains, attachment plates for more chains and the main collar I used the standard metal formula from the back of the Trollbloods book. For the medallions dangling from his waist I went with Brassy Brass and washed it with some greens and browns to age them. I used Brass Balls for the riveted plates on the collar to add something different, and washed it in greens to age it.  I then glued on the head which made it feel so much closer to completion.

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Skin shaded and highlighted

Quick update on the Mountain King progress.  I got the skin shaded and highlighted.  I think it came out all right, but doesn’t feel like my best work ever.  Shading and highlighting muscles is a lot different from the usual Cygnaran armor plates I’m used to. I did adjust my paint blends to get deeper highlights and higher highlights, which I think came out pretty well.  Ended up redoing the highlight on his stomach as the first attempt was especially bad.

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Shading and highlights on the rocks

Finished up the shading and highlighting on the Mountain King’s rocks. I initially followed the Gargantuan’s guide, but found that the highlights were not bright enough, so I went back and dry brushed in a three additional layers of highlights.  Over all I’m not thrilled with how the rocks came out.  In reality there are to many faces and angles to the different rock spikes I could spend a month highlighting and shading them.  I think starting a shade darker may have helped, or maybe try washing in some of the shades into the recesses.

Cleaned up the skin base coat

Once the rocks were done I quickly went back in with Trollblood Base and cleaned up the parts of the skin that had gotten splattered from the rock texturing.  As I was doing it I realized that the splatter technique would work really well for Trollblood skin as well.  Probably want to choose different colors than from the rocks, but maybe do a purple or magenta for a darker splatter and maybe a Frostbite for a lighter splatter.  Though the rock colored splatter was also interesting.  But in the end I decided to stick with the original plan of regular smooth colored skin.

120mm Slate Wastes base from Dragon Forge

And lastly, my base has arrived.  A 120mm base from Dragon Forge, it will match the Slate Wastes base I used for eDoomie and that I plan to use for all my casters.