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...
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.
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.
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!
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...
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!
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
Gaming: Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Next Week:
The colours of darkness...
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