Jan's Judgement

With Sir Marcus finished, finally, I turned to one of the original characters and models from the Judgement Starter Boxed Set.

Now while Judgement models are usually cast in resin and come in pieces for you to prep and assemble, as resin models usually do, Rakir is from the starter box and he, alongwith the two other models in the box, are a) pre-assembled (grrrrrrrr I hate preassembled models) and b) not cast in resin but are done in a kinda PVC hard plastic – better than CMON and certainly light years ahead of that Reaper Bones bollox. But it’s still some sort of PVC deriviative which means prep can be a bit of a shit as it doesnt scape and sand as easily as either resin or the plastics like what GW uses…… ABS or whatever it is.
I managed to dissassemble Rakir to some extent. I got him off his base as I prefer to do bases seperately  and removed his head and cloak which need to be gouged and then reassmbled to fit better than that had been done in the factory.

As a model, Rakir is cracking! Orc ninja like dude jumping off another lovely sculpted base that is typical of the Judgement line.

There is so much opportunity here for differnt workups and materials – old stone, flowing heavy cloth, metals, leathers and ofc green skin tones.

For Rakir’s skin I wanted to do another and different greenskin workup than I had done on the previous orcs; Sharn, Haksa and Kruul.
Rakir is an assassin so I wanted a darker more shadowy workup with some blues brought in to complement and fit in with what I was planning for his shadow cloak.  Pushing a little ‘human’ skintones into the highlights of green flesh also really help to give the model more life. Purely green skintones I find rather falt so blues into the shadow and ochres to pinks in the highlights and we’re sorted!

Overall I made sure to keep all my hues and tones more desaturated and dulled down to further emphasise the idea of his role as an assassin lurking and attacking from the shadows.
To contrast and juxtapose with how Rakir was looking and to try and make sure that piece as a whole didnt come out too dull and lifeless. I upped the colour and brightness on the base – pushing greens into the stonework adn using some bright mosses and grasses and a few more brightly coloured leaves. The brightness of the base stands out and leads the viewer up the model to the darker and more ominous figure of the Orc assassin………. I think…….. hope…….. you be the judge!