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*drools* when i get mine would you paint him for me please?

He continues to improve. I suppose with a model (I won't call it a miniature cos its not small) this big you can just go on finding little bits to improve here and there for ages

Thanks for all the support guys I have so much to get done at the moment: This guy, the rest of my Apoc force (I'll post some pics of what I've done so far soon), and my new impulsive adventure into WHFB I'll start doing smaller posts like the one above as frequently as I can, I only get about an hour a day to work on any warhammer so forgive me if its a little slow.

@weetyskemian44- Thats my problem, I've spent probably coming up to 20+ hours on this guy and I'm still finding little details that I've previously overlooked! I suppose itsa a testament to how incredibly detailed the "mini" is

@TyraelVladinhurst- Are you actually getting one?? I wouldn't want to paint another one for a LONG time considering how much time this is taking me, and how much other stuff I have on my plate. I've never even considered doing work for anybody else, (I dont see myself as being good enough) but thank you, I take your comment as a REALLY big compliment

*Prays that this doesn't join onto my last post*
I found some free time so this is what I've got through today

After another half hour of finding more little detail to paint, I got a little over excited and decided to crack on with the wings! I only had the time to get one of them attached, but I got a bit trigger happy with the camera so I thought I'd post an update.




With my trusty drill and straightened out paper clip I spent AGES trying to find a way to get the pins and the holes on the other piece to line up, (If anyone can give me some advice on how to do this more reliably for the other wing I'd be very grateful) I got the wing to fit on .

This made me notice a lot of things about how I had painted the wings, and now that its on I think I'll be doing a lot more work on it! The arm-like bits will be the more similar to the body, I'll blend it out to eventually being black/grey further up. I'm pretty happy with the details on the wings, I'm intentionally keeping them quite plain so that the rest of the model stands out, and isn't lost in a huge sea of brown-ness.

For the time being, this is how he's looking .......



(^^I apologise again for the rubbish-ness of my camera!)

Here he is with the whip put back in to show him in all his glory




That's all for today, but I'm expecting to maybe have some free time again tomorrow evening so I might be able to crack on with some more pictures then (if your lucky and leave lots of comments )

Holy, he's looking very imposing!

I hate being "that guy" but I see some mold lines on the guy's right leg.(From the buttocks pic)
Still it's very nice!

Hey Dakka! Sorry it's been so long since I last updated, my laptop got overrun with virus' and I literally just got it back 15 minutes ago!

Since my last update I have:
Got the second wing attached- This took literally hours, its extremely fiddly trying to work around the other wing (and the shoulder pad that i'm now regretting putting on so early ). As a result there were some gaps that I have since greenstuffed and painted over. But just a word of warning to anybody else buys this guy, DONT STICK THE BIG SHOULDER PAD ON UNTILL LAST It really was that much of a pain!

Painted most of the axe- the head of the axe is painted in the same way as the armour (as I previously described), the handle was bestial brown with a million different layers of both Devlan mud and Badab black wash, and the shaft (is that the right word?! don't know what else to call it!) was boltgun metal, washed with Badab black and highlighted with mithril silver.

Other than that It was just more picking out the details all over this big guy to make him look as good as I possibly can. Here come the pictures



Ooh yeah, the blood has come on a little more than shown in this picture. Its Merchrite Red followed by a Red Gore drybrush, then a few layers of red ink and a layer of 'Ard Coat to make it look nice and bloody.



Here he is with both wings attached, He truly is massive, the next pictures I called in a favour from Kharn the Betrayer to give you guys an idea of his hugeness. (sorry for how blury they are)




I have since started painting the ligaments in his wings to match hins skin colour, so far I have done up to the top with the main "arms", I don't know if i should do each one or just fade it out into the black likr ethe rest of the wing. I'll upload a picture when I can to get your opinion's on what I should do.

Finally, I'd like to say a big thank you to fellow Dakkite thelordoflife for the bloodletters I got from him in the swapshop. They complete my Chaos deamons part of the Apocalypse army (not that any of it is anywhere near finished being painted )! So here is a suitably blurry picture of the 40 bloodletters backed up by the Bloodthirster.



Note: you can sort of see the difference to the bloody axe and the brown on the wings, that obviously isn't the point of the picture but atleast you see I'm not lying about making some progress


Thats it for now....Any C+C is welcome as always, and oppinions on what to do about the wings will really help

Wow, that truly is an impressive model! and your doing it great justice! I would though have a look on the wings with the brown on it before you can have my opinion keep it up!

As promised





Should they stay pretty much the same, with just work on blending the brown-ness into the black and then shadowing/highlighting so it matches the body? OR continue the brown down all of the tendons in the wings? What do you guys think?

PS. Thank you for my lone comment rose at least somebody decided to say something

I would blend the brown just a bit not all the way down the wing maybe like a 1/4 of an inch or so away from the wing arm things because the brown to black seems a bit unnatural. As for the tendons Im not entirely sure maybe make them a little shinier than the rest of the wing as though the skin over them was being pulled tight.

Gorechild wrote: Here he is with the whip put back in to show him in all his glory




That's all for today, but I'm expecting to maybe have some free time again tomorrow evening so I might be able to crack on with some more pictures then (if your lucky and leave lots of comments )

This is the best pic of it so far.

Awesome work

My personal preference would be to paint all the tendons brown. But I think you should test on one of the wings first to see if it looks good, it might also backfire and be to brown if you know what I'm talking about

Yeah I'm inclined to agre with you Rose, I wanted to keep the wings as plain as I could so it didnt draw away from the rest of the model, but I think i might just do them in a darker brown. The one area that I think might look odd is the top where the claws are (2nd picture), Its quite big and I don't know if it will look odd.

Does anybody else have a suggestion?

I'll have a play around with it this weekend and see what seems to work

How about painting it brown but fading to dark brown instead of black?