So I got this fellow for my birthday and was eager to paint him and just as eager not to mess it up. Obviously putting paint on the figure was a good start on the way to messing it up so I was a bit torn. At a $113 doing a poor job would be a disappointment difficult to accept. Anyway having it sit in a box forever would also be a shame so I stuck it together and primed it.
I recently changed my superglue from some rubbish GW stuff to some traditional salleys glue. The later sticks fast on contact and is super strong unlike the GW stuff which has become weak and tacky. Unfortunately this meant that when I stuck it together I didn’t have much time to position it and alas the sword and the head aren’t quite where I would have like them to be. Rectifying this mistake would have required a saw and some greenstuff, and I wasn’t prepared to go there in light of my desire not to mess the figure up, wimp I know.
it is a beautiful model very three dimensional which made it tricky to paint, although not as bad as I thought it might be. It’s also surprisingly durable, though I still managed to break of a bit of a branch and the longer of the two splintered pieces of wood sticking out his elbow.
I’ve tried to faithfully reproduce the paint scheme even though I have few of the colours and was constantly mixing paint as a result. Wasn’t sure about the blue, still not to be honest. Was tempted to make the blue mostly grey but struggled to get it right so just went with the blue. Anyway very happy with the result, it is a stunning piece and whatever you think of the colour scheme it is a striking piece and I believe/hope that I’ve done it justice.
(hmm I think the blue looks even bluer in the picture too :-\)
Oh man it looks great!! I’m sure I’ll feel better getting my saurus beat up by a far taller and feirsome looking treeman than the older metal version.
I was wondering how you oil that machine inside of you that allows you to paint so well… have you ever thought about what might happen when the Borg want it back or worse The Doctor visits?
I just bargained away ambition and a career as a famous actor for mediocre painting skills. I think as far as bargains go it’s worked out in my favour. Of course that may just be my lack of ambition speaking.