P-VLOG: Wolsung SSG Gigantic Golem – From Parts To Painted

Welcome to our new tutorial and guide om building and painting the Gigantic Golem from Wolsung SSG as we go from Parts To Painted.

In this first piece John talks about his plans for the Golem and where he wants to take it as a project.

We now get stuck into the important building step of working on the Gigantic Golem.

A kit like this takes a bit of getting used to but John walks us through it.

Warren steps in to talk with John about how he feels about the colours going onto the Gigantic Golem.

While he has his own thoughts how would you approach thinking about the main colours for this beast?

An important step in painting is to work on making sure that the primer looks good when it's down on the model.

Making sure you get a nice even coat which keeps the details crisp is key.

With the main priming step now done we look towards the Pre-Shading Step where we start to work on making sure this work we do now helps us out in later steps.

Do you do a lot of pre-shading on your models?

As an extra tip to help you we talk about where you should be adding shading and where you should avoid.

With this handy little guide this should help on models both big and small.

Now that we've worked on some shading we also look towards the need to work on Highlighting at this step too.

It's important to get these techniques down if we want the final project to spark that little more when finished.

Warren comes to visit John and find out how he has been progressing with the series so far.

Are you impressed with the look of the Golem at the moment?

With our colour decided we start to look at applying the base coat for the model and working on the Green Armour.

Using the airbrush we can get some great results as you'll see below.

Warren is back with John to talk about taking the armour to the next level. With the base coat done we need to work on the next step to make it pop.

Now we're moving on to work on some Gloss Varnish to make the Golem look like it has a bit more of a factory finish too it.

We take a look at how the Varnish has turned out on the model now that we've left it for a little while and we start to plan ahead on how we're going to work on the Metallics.

It's time to put on the music and see how we create 'Heavy Metal'. Now you just need to add a comment below with the music that should accompany this...

Now that we've actually made the Heavy Metal we talk about how it has turned out and what we think of the results.

It's interesting working on metallics because even though they are simple by nature they can be made to look superb with a few tweaks.

Now we have to make the metal shine and get stuck into something which will elevate it and make it so that it looks as good as the armour.

What do you think of the results?

Just as with the Armour we also look into dealing with the Shading and Death on the Metallics so that we can make it look less like a flat expanse.

It's very simple to make metallics look good!

We can't just go with the standard Metal however so we're going to add some of that Steampunk bronze to the equation.

This is a Steampunk staple and always looks good when added as a contrasting colour.

The key is in the detail so we've shown off some of the details on our Gigantic Golem so you can see just where the difference is made.

Working on spot colours and such is a good way to pick those out.

Now we have to get into the detail and the devilry that is the Scroll Work.

It's easy to get disheartened when it comes to this point but with a bit of patience it can look brilliant.

Now we have to look towards working on the lighting for the Golem. This represents the big search lights that will be scoping out its prey.

How do you approach painting lights?

With a strange weapon in hand we just had to work on it some more and make it look that little more awesome.

Dark Copper was the way forward - very Steampunk once again!

We stop for a minute and give you a look around the whole model to give you an idea as to how its turning out.

With so many steps its easy to get lost so make sure to go back and check out previous videos to see how we got it to this point.

While it's a good idea to paint the lights with a brush you can also get some neat effects with an Airbrush to see how that's worked out for John.

Do you think they provide you with a good glow effect?

Talking of the idea of Glow Effects from the last airbrushing step we use some yellow wash to make them pop that little more.

Do you think they've turned out alright?

A base makes the model pop and so we get started on it ourselves. It's a great scenic base for this creation so let's talk techniques.

Stomping around on the ground for a while will make it feel a bit weathered so we talk about how you can go about doing that here.

We LOVE weathering effects as they add a lived in feeling to a models basing or piece of terrain.

Now it's time to work on some belching smoke. With the aid of some green stuff and a bit of fluffy stuff we get started...

This Clump Foliage might not look like it's smokey right now but as we start to layer it up you'll see the smoke effect coming to life.

How do you make smoke?

Something this odd might not survive the rigorous trials of the gaming table so John talks about how exactly he goes about making it idiot proof.

We're back to the base now after our affair with smoke clouds to talk about how to make the base look that little more weathered.

We think it's coming together nicely now!

We couldn't let this base lie without a bit of Rust work and so we broke out the ModelMates and started going to town with this corroded look.

With the base done we move back to the smoke cloud to make it look finished and ready for the Gigantic Golem.

Fire up the boiler and lets see how the smoke has turned out.

We now sit down with Justin and John to talk about how we think this project has gone and explore the different techniques we've used on this Golem.

It's been quite the jaunt into a load of different ways of painting and modelling - all of which we'd like to see you use too!