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The Hungering Darkness V. 2.0

 A terrifying, inhuman spectre of monstrous size, 
the Mourngul attacks with its nightmarishly
 elongated claws and distended fangs 
in a frenzied hunger for flesh and souls.



Hey team! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

Last week I ended with quite a claim, and this week we'll start the grand reveal...

Ever since I bought Jakob Lynch and his gang (which was actually ages ago) I'd been planning how I would paint them. You've now seen Jakob, The Hungering Darkness, and one of The Illuminated, and I guess I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. But the one thing that left me unsettled was that I didn't really feel that the model of The Hungering Darkness lived up to his name. I felt he looked more larval than omnipotent and that's how I painted him. 

When I was thinking about this, I had a brain wave of a miniature that I had seen ages ago that totally fit the lore and tone of what I would imagine The Hungering Darkness to be...

The Hungering Darkness

This was pretty exciting for me; I had never ordered anything from Forgeworld before, but had often coveted their high-quality resin miniatures. 

This guy was a huge undertaking - in a good way. Given that it was my first Forgeworld mini I really wanted to do him justice. This week I want to just focus on the building process and next week we'll complete him with a discussion on the painting.

The Hungering Darkness

I was quite content with how this model went together, although it was a bit hard to hide the join lines at the wrists. I ended up pinning this model together because I didn't want any of his spindly appendages snapping off and I was a bit wary of his left wrist and shoulder (both of which were relatively low-profile joins) supporting his weight reliably. 

The Hungering Darkness

At some point I think I'll dedicate an article on pinning and maybe a few other basic modelling techniques (Update! Here it is!), but until then I'll just say that the way I do it is to drill out each side of the joint with a pin-vice, put some green stuff over each hole, fit in the clipped piece of paper-clip and superglue the whole shebang together!

The Hungering Darkness

The Hungering Darkness

The Hungering Darkness

Although it probably wasn't necessary on this model (because the join lines were very small) I then filled the seams in with green stuff. Another little technique I sometimes use to make sure correct alignment between the two surfaces that I am trying to pin together is to put some paint in the whole on one side and press it against the other side so that I can see exactly where I need to drill the hole on the other side. Unfortunately in the example below I used green paint so it just looks like green stuff...

The Hungering Darkness

I think I'll leave you with a little tease for next week: A work in progress shot of painting The Hungering Darkness Version 2.0!

The Hungering Darkness

That's it for this week! See you on the flip-flop. 


Listening: The Ballad of Hollywood Jack - Tenacious D
Watching: The Shallows (2016) - Jaume Collet-Serra


Next Week:
The colours of darkness...

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