Gorbad Ironclaw (two)

Finished painting Gorbad, my favourite sculpt from Games-Workshop I think.  Not sure I really did it quite the justice I was hoping for but it certainly passable I think.  Little annoyed with the varnish it seems to have if anything ‘unblended’ some of my work.  I think this was because I used a mixture of blending and shadowing with the shadowing being done with ink.  When I brushed the varnish on it smudged the ink.  Normally I would have probably written this off as a fancy and that I was just imagining things however I had used ink in the checkered pattern on the cheek guards, which when they smudged looked rather obvious on the white.  Anyway I fixed the checks but wasn’t going to try repainting the entire thing so here it is.

[edited: 21/07/2011 – new photo]

2 Replies to “Gorbad Ironclaw (two)”

  1. That is very very nice!

    I bet you can’t wait to that menace on the war games table?

    I hope my Steg is ready then.. because it could end up as a head on clash… see who crumples in a pool of blood?

    But I’m not painting or assembled my steg.. so your safe 🙂

  2. Why not. Are you ever going to paint your 28mm stuff?
    Do you want me to do it?
    Not that I don’t have enough of my own to do. I have the Island of Blood box set now and so am busy assembling Tommy’s skaven. 40 clan rats + 2 rat ogres + 2 weapons teams + packmaster + warlock engineer + warlord is a pretty sizable painting project and thats not even taking into account all the high elves in the same box.
    On top of that still have a small mountain of wood elves, orcs, goblins to paint.
    And still a bunch of FOW stuff.

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