Savage Orc Big Boss WIP Part 7

Hi folks!

Time for another update on my Savage Orc Big Boss. The progress on him is hard to see in the pictures but in real life there is quite a difference in terms of how 'clean' his skin and other parts on the model are.

I'm painting with oils again, as you could probably see with the sheen on his skin compared to other parts of the model.

Some shots up close:

As you can see in the next pictures, the model does miss a good focal point. The whole model is a mix of midtone greys and needs a focal point to 'pop out' . I'm going to highlight his face a bit different to the rest so in the final piece it will look great(I hope!)

Next up is the base, not much done only slight colour variations and actually just better pics in comparison with the last update on the base.

The deadline is closing in as Saturday the 13th of april the preliminary rounds of The Fang will be held. I'll have the model finished for sure by then!

See you!

On the WorkBench #2: Sumothay, Prior Warrior

Hello everyone! Another edition of On the WorkBench! 

This time we will be talking about "Sumothay, Prior Warrior" a 54mm scale miniature by Raúl Garcia Latorre. The owner of the company Enigma Miniatures from Spain.

I bought this mini second hand along with Horthak from Rafael García Marín, also known as Volomir(check out his blog at the left!) This will be my first time painting a 54 mm miniature.

I forgot to take some photos of the mini in the blister and un-prepped, so here are the first photos, primed and well:

The mini came with a few casting failures, mould lines and flash. But nothing major, although with his banner there were two of the left flag, but I won't be using it in clear view so that doesn't really matter.

As you can see above I used the banners on the ground along with some rubble sculpted with Milliput excess I had left from prepping other minis and bases and normal garden soil.

Like I said before this will be my first time painting a 54 mm and damn these are big in comparison with what I'm familiar with! And heavy this metal giant is! Now I understand Rafa's concerns about the postage ;)

A scale comparison between the 54 mm Sumothay and GW's 28 mm Sigvald(still WIP, but got bored on him):

I've started slapping on some basecolours on him. It's quite a hard mini to really determine a colourscheme on, due to all those different clothes and armour he wears being a wandering warrior like Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings. 

I think it will be a fun challenge! I'll probably be using a lot of different tones of brown and green and a couple of yellows.

These last two photos show a bit the idea I have behind this figure and base, like he's standing at the edge of the remains of a battlefield, gazing into the distance.

See ya around and keep painting! :)

Savage Orc Big Boss WIP Part 6

Small update on the Orc, reached the last phases. Although still got quite some clean up work to do with oils. I will probably have this piece finished next sunday.

Some photo's now, pretty bad. I'm sorry for that. Can't take better pics right now.

Savage Orc Big Boss WIP Part 5

Some more base work, actually finished this a week ago but have been quite busy with other stuff and forgot to upload it. Tonight, tomorrow and this weekend there will be some more painting. I hope to have finished the figure for about 90~95% by then.

Now! Photo's!

On the WorkBench #1: Steampunk Alice

Hi everyone!

From now on I will do an introduction to every model I buy or receive on this blog. The series will be called: "On the WorkBench" as you could see in the title of this post.

The first edition will be about an amazing limited edition figurine from the talented Sebastian Archer's company Guild of Harmony: Steampunk Alice and her Clockwork Rabbit.

He got the 3rd place overall at last year's Crystal Brush with this piece!

This miniature is limited to 400 castings and I received the 160th cast.

Alice was carefully packed in a padded envelope and within that surrounded by bubble wrapping. Everything arrived intact and within 1 week after shipping to my pleasure!

The resin cast was the best I have seen so far! Such an amount of detail on so small a figure.

After removing the mould lines and cleaning up most of the areas on the miniature, I took some more photos.

Happy to have such an amazing figure!

The colour scheme I'm going to use on her won't be that much different from the one Sebastian used on his original sculpt, since in my opinion it's one that's very fitting for the figure and I like it really much.

Mine will be something like this:

See you around!
Jorik

Savage Orc Big Boss WIP Part 4

Hi guys,

Fourth part of my Savage Orc, made some progress on the base and the figure itself but for now only the base will be shown. Tonight I will continue on the figure and will post some pics then.

For now I mainly have question to ask: When you see this base, in what kind of area do you think you are located?