Project Barnum.

So now he was all built up the next part to think about was how to paint her up. Looking at the box art it felt kind of drab. This is a hideous monster with horrible gaping wounds and needed to look scary but vibrant at the same time. With that in mind I considered what colour should the skin be, grey was my first instinct it would make the gore pop, but then I thought about it and changed my mind. Grey is still a bit drab and although more realistic it was a bit boring; this is a ZOMBIE T-REX! It needed to be bright bold, then inspiration came from the perfect source. My daughter saw me pondering over it and I asked her what she thought I should paint it. Her instant response was dinosaurs are green, of course it should be green, when you were a kid what colour did you draw dinosaurs it was always green. So, I started off with a Corax white spray base coat, I did the main skin colour in Caliban Green then washed it with Biel Tan green and finally dry brushed it with Nurgling green. The exposed flesh was done with Ratkin flesh, followed by Fulgrim pink then a light wash of Reikland fleshshade and then Carroburg crimson.

The ribs and bone extrusions were done with a base of Zandri dust then a layer of Ushabti bone then a light wash of Agrax earthshade. This took a while doing tidying and figuring out what bones I wanted above and below the skin. The same was done with the teeth as well.

Lastly, I covered obvious errors and certain parts with Blood for the Blood god to make it look really gross looking. Some of the scars were dry brushed with Astorath red to make them look inflamed and raw. The eye I did white originally, but it didn’t really work it looked sort of unfinished. So, I decided to add some nattiness to it, so I used Nurgles rot to make it look infected an oozing. Lastly on Barnum herself I used Abaddon Black and coated it in Ardcoat to make them shine and look sharp and unnatural. The rock was very basic based Mechanicus standard grey washed with Nuln oil and then dry brushed with Dawnstone. A couple of bits of moss with some dabs of Stirland battlemire where I wanted them and covered with some woodland scenics medium green foliage.