Obsidian Golems (with a twist)

This was the first model of the three that got some kitbash treatment. The backstory of a regiment of turned Abyssal golems was not in my mind for this kitbash. He was to be a hastily crafted Enchanter wizard’s Large Construct for my Frostgrave warband. Built from rubble, broken statues, weapons laying around and slabs of wrought iron and held together by magic and not much else. The arm hole filled with weapons really appealed to me, draws the eye and adds that last minute cobbler together construct feel.

The iron bars over the front gut cavity made some sense to me at the time. I initially hoped it would look like an oven door, but soon conceded that it was more like prison bars. For my Construct that was fine because the rock he is gathered from could easily have cell window bars encompassed in it. As I look at him more as a traitor Abyssal obsidian golem I feel these make sense as supports after the fires died. This would have been a central core where the lava bubbled and turned over, but now he is cold the Dwarf Stone Priest had to shore up the gap to give him a stable core to lash out from. (Don’t skip abs day.)

In the first picture the cloth hanging from the hole where his arm used to be was just a plain white cloth.

In the second picture I had added a spattering of blood and a wide blue central stripe.

As I am trying to get as many browny points as I can, I am going to hand paint some runes amongst the torn cloth.

The rock effect – Athonian Camoshade over the grey primer, dry brush of Grey Seer, added dots of Nighthaunt gloom and Camoshade – was all roughly worked out on this model first.

I found after my first round of base colours, washes and highlights that the silver grey of the metal was too close to the grey rock and this gave no contrast or definition to the different materials on the golem. So to add warmth to the metal I added rust tones and to take the rock colder and less grey I added the Nighthaunt Gloom spots that made it look almost icy in places.

I will show off the rune work on the cloth soon and then move onto the last model.

Once all three are at a decent table top standard I will pick back over my work and try to find ways of improving them before a final photo shoot.