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"'Eavy Metal" - Orruk Wyvern

A cry above - the wyvern dies
Blind eyes have broken the oath
so far away...
Hello and welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

 Okay, okay, I know those in the know will be getting after me over the title ('Eavy Metal is the name of the group of Games Workshop's premier painters) but hey, I'm using it in the literal sense - this is one heavy metal miniature!!

 It's a classic: The Orc (Orruk) Warboss on Wyvern. Until the Maw-Krusha came out, I thought that the wyvern was surly the perfect mount for an Orc Warboss. It's like an evil dragon with only 4 limbs (as opposed to 6 of "normal" dragons) and a venomous scorpion tail! Now thinking more about it, I wonder if a wyvern wouldn't be more suited to a grot boss what with their evil love of poisoned weapons. 

 Today we'll look at building this beast and modelling the base! Get your pin vice, paperclips and green stuff ready...'ere we go!


This guy required some serious pinning. I know I keep saying that I'll devote a whole "Smartly Smart" (my "how to" articles) to pinning, and I will - I even have the model picked out for it - but not yet.


Ready to be reunited!


We had a couple beautiful sunny days there so I even managed to enjoy some hobby time outside (and got suitably sunburnt)!


Then I started a whole other project with his base...I'm actually still working on it, but will show you a few work-in-progress shots, and will hopefully have the whole lot painted and ready to present to you next week.


My original idea was to have him in a much more dynamic stance - something akin to the Dragonlord. I soon realized that Mr. Lead Wyvern was much too heavy for that so I looked around in my bitz box and found this wizened tree left over from a model I got at Warhammer World while I was there. 


My idea, though I'm not yet sure how it'll work out, is to build up the base around the tree to make a platform of 'rock' that the wyvern can stand on. He'll take some serious anchoring, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 


Gluing sand on...


...Sealing the sand with more glue...


Veins of Agrellan Earth for that "dried riverbed" look.



Painted Steel Legion Drab...


And washed with good ol' Agrax Earthshade.

 I'm going for the "badlands" look that I use for all of my orcs. And as we speak, am waiting patiently for the Agrax Earthshade dry and gazing skeptically at how I'm going to get this guy on here!
Tune in next time to see if I was successful or not on The Art of Caesura!


Watching: Selma - Ava DuVernay and The Imitation Game - Mortem Tyldum
Listening: Radiolab
Drinking: O'Connell's Ale
Reading: Sapiens - Yuval Noah Hurari


 Next Week:

 All about dat base!
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