"Crikey! She's a big 'un!"

"Crikey! She's a big 'un!" - Maw Krusha

Come not between the

Dragon and his wrath

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Hi all, welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

This week's mini isn't so mini at all! For the past few weeks I've been working on the new Maw-Krusha model. It's the first dragon-like thing I've painted and the first of the new Age of Sigmar orc stuff that I've bought.

I do not own this image

To really give this model the credit it's due I'm going to spread it over a couple weeks on here. Today I want to talk a little about the building. Strangely when I bought this guy, one of the large pieces (the left side of his back) was a bit warped. I've never seen this happen with Games Workshop plastics before (especially not their newer kits).

To be honest, I didn't really mind, it wasn't a huge deal and I figured it would be easy enough to fix. Rather than try to warp it back into shape, I just cut the piece in half to re-align them better and filled the gap in with green stuff. The green-stuffing was really easy because his scales are so textured. I just grabbed my trusty old dental tool and got to work.

I think he turned out just fine, and now that I'm painting him, I actually can't even remember where the green-stuffed bits are!

I really love this model! I think he is the right aesthetic for an orc dragon: huge and chunky and brutishly strong looking. I also like his spiky tail armour, I feel the blade on the underside of it kind of hearkens back to the venomous tails that the wyverns of olde used to have.

Well, that's it for this week folks; a bit of a sneak peak ahead of the painted Maw-krusha that I hope to have finished for your viewing delight next week.

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