Ride to ruin (February’s Snag a Normie Challenge)

Needing a bit of a break from little orcses, I spent all of yesterday working on the Mordor Troll model. He started the day without arms because when I was putting him together I didn’t have the rule book to hand to check weapon stats… which, it turns out, makes no difference so just went with what I thought looked best.

One of the things that is coming up as I work my way through this project is the difference between the beautiful new Theoden models and just how old the rest of the sprues are. The orc models were pretty ugly in places and They don’t hold up to much of a close inspection. This model had gaps at most of the joins and areas where it didn’t line up very well. Between liquid green stuff and scraping/filing I managed to get it to a reasonable stage before priming but it has made me deeply appreciative of modern GW models.

Primed in Zandri dust

Armour base Army Painter Gun Metal for the metal parts, Vallejo Russian Uniform for the fabric and Revell Leather Brown for the straps.

Skin tones GW Steel Legion Drab and AP Fur Brown

Hands and feet GW Eshin  Grey with GW Administratum Grey drybrush.

The next stage was to slap on some washes. For the metal parts, I went with GW Nuln Oil and then everything else on the model got a coat of GW Agrax Earthshade. On the highlighting front, I went back over the raised parts of the skin and the fabric on the armour. Like the orcs, I’d really like to go over all the metal with a couple more layers of wash (with some medium mixed in) to dirty it up a bit but that’s for a later date.

Some part of my brain also kicked in to remind me that I spill wash almost every time I sit down to do it ?

As the washes dried off, I drilled holes for the pinning, flocked the base and with a small amount of super glue, everything was done. I’ve put some tufts on after I took the final photo and at some point in the future I might go back to do some more work on the skin but I’m happy with it overall.

Models painted : 57

Models remaining: 27