I finally managed to get myself some time to finish Buzzgob! I wanted to do more with the metals but there's a time when you just have to say "Enough!" and finish it. It's still not meant for Golden Demon or something, it's painted to play with. Overall I'm pretty pleased with it anyhow. The OSL came out pretty darn OK and I really like the skintone I managed to get after a bunch of green washes.
The base was done almost completely with pigments. I'm still not too sure if I like it, but it does contrast well with the detailed figure.
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Working with Objective Source Lightning is something I've dabbled in, but never really got the hang of. Mostly since I paint a lot of tabletop troops and it's just not feasible to try and do it with 100 orks. It is also one of those techniques you have to try over and over again to really make it look good and proper.
So that was one of the things to try and do with Buzzgob. He has this green lamp on the right side of his head. That one sure had to be able to throw out some light I thought. Which would be good to emphasize his mek-y-ness.
After a while I got pretty pleased with it. From some angles OSL looks weird. But when looking from the right angles it's pretty convincing for being paint.
This I did with a ton of really transparent layers of green emaniaiting from the bulb and a little bit of thinking of what would be hit. The mechanical claw-arm furthest away from him got a few hits of the darker green, while the arm and metal bits closer to the lamp got the entire deal with both opaque and green glazes.
It's looking pretty convincing I think, and solved at least 20% of my metal worries posted in last days post.
Painting stuff black is kinda a hassle. Fortunately I stumbled up this little gem over at Giovannis Modeling Corner that gives you (and me) a few handy tips on painting black.
One other thing mentioned in the video is to always unload the brush. Something I sometimes forget to do, ensuring that the rather transparent layering I try to achieve instead turns into a slow drying opaque mess.
This week is deadline week so I wasn't hoping on getting anything done, but I managed to get some time today to paint the skin on Mek Buzzgob.
Buzzgob and Simon(?) from Malifaux primed and ready.
Now, I really like Forgeworld. But the amount of weird stuff on Buzzgob is staggering once you start painting it and asking yourself "Why is this bump / hole / thing here?". There's just way too many things and resin-casting-artefacts that you just can't see or for that matter reach. Which results in it being a pretty frustrating figure to paint.
Apart from that I think it's going pretty good. Still debating in my head on how to make all the metal parts come alive. A ton of weathering and/or rust I guess. And washes galore to make it look like different kinds of metal. Some of it has to be in another color too I think. It's just too much "metal". \m/ >_<
Finally dryfitted and glued together... not even close to done with the upper body though.
Today I recieved a parcel from Wayland Games (one of the few, if not the only, stores that actually ship in reasonable time…) with a new razor saw and one of those Filla-Glu kits. Which meant that I was able to start assembling the Warhound.
Now let me tell you this... it's a b*tch! The details and everything is wonderful. But putting it together is a royal pain in the backside. It really doesn't help that the "instructions" is three double sided photocopied papers in low resolution black & white. One could've thought that for £300+ they at least could've included a CD with a piece-by-piece, step-by-step instructions.
On the table... shoddy instructions
Not to mention that it's resin. So everything is slightly warped, which means that you have to spend 30 minutes dryfitting -everything- before gluing it all together. And even then you f*ck up a little. Thank God for slow curing cyanoacrylate!
I did get some time to paint a little more on Buzzgob yesterday… it's a ton of metal parts on him... I'll have to spend a day just washing them in different colors in order for the figure not to look like some weird kind of tin-man.
I had to get me some flash gitz – yes I know they kinda suck – in order to fill the last slot in my "swedish comp tourney list". So after looking through a ton of posts on the internetz regarding flash gitz I kinda settled on just making them look different compared to the nobz and boyz.
The bodies aren't really plug-n-play with regular ork boyz arms. So I had to do a bunch of filing and dry fitting. And unfortunately all that also meant that I have to prime and paint them with arms and guns on.
Git' em!
The hard foam fortification was kinda nice (and not really expensive). Since it's made out of some foam it's really light. But still sturdy. The foam is kinda hard but not brittle like regular styrofoam. I will be putting mine on a thin sheet of MDF though. Just to protect the edges of it. There are some air bubbles and other irregularities from the casting. Although nothing that really should matter unless you're using it for your Golden Demon entry or something. (And then there's a resin one which I suppose is of better quality).
Some bubbles
Aaaand... as you suspect. It's into the cupboard with the gitz and hardfoam until I've gotten round to finish Mek Buzzgob that will act as a stand in Big Mek with powerklaw in my tourney army. Click the "read more" if you want to check the list out. If not I leave you with a very-very WIP-ish Buzzgob!
