Well, it is great to be back from a long break. I have a lot of blog posts to work on, so I thought I would throw this one out there since it has been a bane in my life recently. This model is the Circle of Orboros Gorax model. My first impression of this model is that is looks like a feral Donkey Kong. I was seriously looking for a toy barrel to in his hands. I did not get any pre-painting pictures of this model so I will just use the post-painting pictures throughout this blog.
The model arrived pretty clean, without taking much cleanup of model. The first thing you might notice is that the model is leaning way forward. Now while this might seem like a great design based on the Gorax's story line and abilities, it made it a pain to put together. The rock, rope, and main model are three separate pieces and they do not line up very well. It took multiple attempts to get everything to work together. While I am happy that I got it all together, that was when I noticed the model was very top heavy. This causes the model to fall forward quite often, which makes playing with the model difficult. I plan on gluing some metal pieces under the back of the base to help make it stay upright better.
I am not particularly happy with my painting of this model. I believe that this model will finally push me to start into the adventure of air brushing my models. I have found that my mixing of colors did not really give me the coloring affects that I was looking for. One of the changes I made to my coloring scheme was the graying of the hair bundles. I had been using a darker brown (brown/black mix) and wanted to try something different. Although I am not sold on the look yet, I think it is closer to what I am looking for in the warbeast's look.
At the time I took these pictures there were some painting issues that I have since fixed. I got some of the white used to grey there hair on the base and the model's leg. This helped me work on my technique so that I could make sure it did not happen again. I did a lot of paint mixing on this model to achieve slight differences in the colors used on the body. Although it did not have the affect I wanted, I see the benefits of expanding my paint collection and changing some of my techniques. It is not showcase ready, but I am happy with it for now for table top. With the amount of models I still have to paint, this one will have to sit for a while and wait for clean up.
