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Gorbad Ironclaw (two)

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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]

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Gorbad Ironclaw

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My current work in progress.  Gorbad Ironclaw.  Keen to do a good job on this since the model cost like $70 (nz).  So far painted the skin dark angels green highlighted up through snot green and goblin green with a bit of thakra (or whatever it’s called, it’s green) wash.  Red paint was done with scab red and highlighted with a mix of scab red and ruby red.  Applied a little bit of black wash to shaded areas.  Chainmail paint chips on all the high wear areas / edges.  Fur cape is mostly graveyard earth, devlan mud wash, kommando khaki and bleached bone.

The photo is not great the black undercoat is absorbing most of the light but you get a sense I guess.

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Mounted Lord

Mounted Lord
A mounted wood elf lord.  What can I say, it is my least favourite model (with perhaps the exception of Ariel).  The horse is nice, I like the horse, always have despite it’s rather cartoonish appearance.  The figure… well where to start.  Not a great sculpt very 2 dimensional with an arm out either side holding a weapon.  A big crested helmet with no other piece of armour whatsoever save a biggish belt.  Then there is my paint job, terrible drybrush highlighting of the blue cloak to start with and then for some god awful reason I thought green gloves and boots would look good with yellow YELLOW clothes and a blue cloak.  I’m a guy, I’m not particularly colour sensitive but even to me this is a horror.  This is one model that I will happily repaint.  I dislike it intensely.  But it is posted here as a historical record of something I will hopefully find the time at some point to expunge.