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Ghaz finally finished

June 1, 2020

Tutoring 6

Skill 7

Idea 6

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Took ages. Honestly ages. I don’t think Ive ever spent so long painting a single model, and that includes the Stompa from earlier in this project.

Painting the component parts before assembly saved some time and made it easier to paint the small details and all the little inaccessible spots, but it did (at least seem like) add considerable time to the painting. I also discovered that GW plastic glue doesn’t like holding together contrast paint. It much prefers bare plastic or at a push, undercoat.

The model required a bit more time of holding it in place to allow the glue to dry. Annoying because if it wasn’t quite right after 15 mins, you’d let go and whoops there goes that small but you needed!

Anyway, I did enjoy painting this model for the most part. Working on such a center piece for me was a daunting prospect as I don’t have a huge amount of confidence in my painting capabilities.

As I have said else where in this blog, I try to look for the most straight forward way to get table top results and the techniques I used on this model were not straight forward (to me) or what I would call efficient.

Anyway, after an initial base coat of GW Wraithbone spray I used:

Ghaz

Black Templar contrast (pretty much all the armour)
Blood angels red contrast (the jaw and a few of the external pipes)
Flesh tearer red contrast (the claw and banner cloth)
Ork flesh contrast (on the exposed flesh parts)
Wyldwood contrast (various exposed bits of clothing)
Bascilia grey contrast (the claws and muzzles on the arms)
Ushabti bone with an Agrax wash on the horns and skulls
Rust paint and Leadbelcher with a Nuln oil wash on the back pack exhausts

Base

Main paint is Armeggedon dust technical
Highlighted with Iraqi desert sand (Vallejo)
The rim is Flat earth (Vallejo again) and a bit inside some of the craters
The beams are Bascilia grey contrast (2 coats)
The rusty plates are rust paint (shock) and leadbelcher with a nuln oil wash.

Finished….

Anyway, I was hoping to take a break from painting, but the OTT guys (big thanks to @dignity) have sent me some bits to be getting on with. The final unit to build and paint is 30 Ork boys. 30 Boys in 30 Mins? Have to see in the next update.

Right where’s that beer…..

First step was to build and divide up the core components to make them easier to paint. I elected to build the arms and body separately, as well as keeping the face and a few other small parts to one side.

I also experimented with a cork and pins to hold the small parts for me to paint. THIS I highly reccomend as it made them sooooooo much easier to paint.

The model consists mostly of Templar black contrast paint, I used half a pot on this model! Contrast paint does not seem to go as far as regular paint.

Like I said, a lot of Black Templar contrast went into this one...

Ghaz's ugly mug.

I took a break about 2/3 through to do the base. Its not 100% finished at this stage but its almost there. It was actually quite refreshing to switch it up a bit from the predominantly dark colored figure to the much brighter base.

Nearly there. At this stage I pretty much stopped taking pics as I was just painting a panel, taking a pic, paint another panel... etc and I really wanted to get it finished.

And thats Ghaz finished! My first model done solely (well 99%) in contrast paints, my first time using the cork on small pieces. Iv'e learnt a lot from painting this model. Like never do it again lol.