Sláine: Kiss My Paintbrush!
Lord Weird Slough Feg celebrates a Golden Button
Lord Weird Slough Feg thanks you for the Golden Button
Simon Bisley art this model is sculpted after and the look I was emulatingFor the Lord Weird I had a go at wet blending. These AP Speedpaints stay wet and workable on the model for a while and don’t stain the same way some inks and contrast paints will. This allowed a nice wet blend working up from a Dark Wood and Hardened Leather blend through pure Hardened Leater to a blend with Sand golem to pure Sand Golem with the zenith underneath helping the notion of light/tone transition.
Other parts were treated similar to previous models with the Sand Golem/finger wipe highlights on the antlers. The bone colour on the scull he is holding was reinforcesd with some Vallejo Bone White. The sickle bronze effect was a brown mixed as part of the wet blending on the skin. This was overpainted with Citadel Technical Nihilakh Oxide (why is it called that GW?) for the verdigris.
The base is the only one not in the standard flocking scheme. He is modelled to stand on skulls already, like in the art, so I filled the rest of the base with skulls from the Citadel Skulls plastic kit and the painted Dark Wood, wiping off the tops for the highlight.
Finally there was a thinned wash of Malignant Green added between the skulls and given to selected areas of the figure to give an unnatural look to him, he is well over 10,000 years old after all.
This week the project got one of these 🙂
Nice work with Slough Feg. I’ve been re-reading The Horned God and I’ve actually saved the very same panel of Feg surrounded my skulls that you’ve posted.
It is such an iconic image. I can see why the sculptor was so drawn to it. Great fun to paint with such brilliant material to work towards. Looking forward to seeing yours when he is finished.