WIP.....Beast 09

30 Dec 12

 

This is a figure I received for my birthday back in May.  He’s been sitting on the shelf for many months as I talk myself into painting him.  The main issue here is that he’s such a great figure that I wanted to make sure I did him justice.

 

To start off every figure it’s good to have a finished concept in mind.  For my Khador army this concept revolves around the 5^th Border Legion who has been in the field for many months and is now fighting in the winter against all comers.  I generally paint my Khador legions using a mixture of red and Russian uniform green.  Additionally, I weather the warjacks so it looks like they have been involved in many months of campaigning.   Lastly I add snow effects to the bases to round out the theme.

To begin with Beast’s base, two layers of cork were added to the standard warjack base.  Cork is an excellent product to use when building up your bases and is also very inexpensive to keep on hand. 

 

After the cork is built up to the desire height, I then add a rounded lip of ‘green stuff’.  I’ve found that using a hot glue gun gets the cork in place and sticking almost immediately.  Many times the cork will slide around and out of place with white glue, and I’ve never been happy with the coverage of superglue.   

 

 

At this point I wanted my base to resemble a trench or fortified position so I cut down some decorative tooth picks and added them to the base.  The toothpicks will be used as stakes for holding the barbed wire into place.  Once these are in place and dry, I then dry fit the legs of the model into place just to make sure it’s starting to look like my concept.  I also, use a felt tip marker to outline the basic areas where the feet will be placed.  It’s hard to see from the pictures but they are there.

 

 

After everything is in place and where I want it, I then add the barbed wire.  I use the regular model barbed wire from Army Painter.  After this is in place and fastened to the base/stakes using superglue, it’s time to get some gravel on the base.  For many of my models I’ll use just standard model train gravel that is sold in any hobby store.  For this model however, I chose to use some Vallejo flocking gel.  I chose to go with their coarse pumice gel which can be applied using an old paint brush.  Once this goes on, give it 5-6 hours to dry.

Make sure you test fit you model throughout the process.