Secret Satan: Rancor

My assigned recipient (who shall rename anonymous for now) is in to both Star Wars Legion and Star Wars Imperial Assault, so I decided to 3D print and paint them a Rancor model that they can use in either game. The scale difference (if any – I know nothing of either game) shouldn’t be a big problem as it can always represent a younger or older Rancor.

This is the file I used, which is available for free: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/rancor-for-legion

The model was undercoated grey seer and then the body was painted with guilliman flesh, plaguebearer flesh followed by militarum green, wet blending them together on the model to get the fleshtones done. All the skin areas got a light drybrush of tyrant skull.

The nails, bones, teeth and tongue were then repainted grey seer  and then skeleton horde or volupus pink.

The earring and wrist shackle were painted abaddon black, then leadbelcher, followed by a wash of nuln oil. It was finished with  highlight of runefang steel.

I temporarily based the model on an oval base for handling during painting. I’ll leave it to the recipient to base up for their chosen game.

After I left the model for a couple of days on my shelf, waiting to find the right sized box to ship it, I noticed resin drooling out the Rancor’s mouth. I do put my prints in a UV curing booth but this particular model has a large cavity in its mouth which must have held a small puddle of uncured resin.

I wiped off the excess resin and then put the model back in the UV curing station, ensuring the open mouth faced the UV LED’s. A couple of runs later and now I’m confident the mouth doesn’t have any uncured resin in it.

Wiping off the resin did strip some of the paint though. A re-application of undercoat and a dab of contrast paints should have it looking good as new though.