"I Will Break You" - Renegade Ogryn Berserker

Ogryn Berserkers are Ogryns corrupted by Khornate Chaos Warbands, 

driven insane by bloodlust and evolving into ferocious 

and bloodthirsty beasts. Similar to Khorne Berzerkers, 

these creatures were lobotomized 

and injected with a powerful combat drug known as "Slaught".

~ 1d4chan

Well hello again friends of the Caesura!

It's another beautiful Friday in my corner of the world and there's a great festival this weekend, so if you're in this neck of the woods (South-West Ireland) come check it out!

Before our Full Stop look at Hellboy last week (the Kickstarter is over ONE MILLION EURO) we spent the previous two weeks tiptoeing through the empty halls of Hive Primus on Necromunda, now it's time to populate them!

Now, this model isn't technically from Necromunda, but as soon as I saw him, I felt like his aesthetic just so fit this setting. The model is Forge World's Renegade Ogryn Berserker (with post) - such a cool model!

I've only done a few Forge World models to date, but I really love their stuff! Unfortunately this time, however, his pole got a bit broken en route, so I fixed it!

I've used Greenstuff for years, but this was my first time using Milliput. It was really easy to use, but was a completely different texture - more like artists clay. 

Below is a work-in-progress shot of this dude. Especially his "Venom", a la Bane, (or "Slaught") canisters on his back. I never remember to use sub-assemblies and always just excitedly stick everything together at once, but I'm so glad I remembered this time because those canisters would have been really tricky to get at with a big slab of concrete in my way! But I'm really happy with how they turned out - fluid levels, reflections and all!

For his skin I used my usual recipe for standard Caucasian skin - it looks a bit washed out in the pics below, but actually looks a bit more true-to-life in the WiP pics above.

Oooh, I should say, before we go any further, that obviously his base is just a place-holder. I'm going to use the same base that comes with the rest of the Necromunda models (Sector Mechanicus, is that it?) and will do it when I'm doing the rest of them. 

I'll let some of the pictures do the talking. Enjoy!

For his eye lenses, it was my first time using a new paint that I just picked up: Vallejo's Model Colour "Green Fluo". It's nice and bright, but I didn't have the balls to do the OSL effect that I was planning to. 

I really pushed myself with his venom injectors. In the past when I've painted vials I would paint the "non-fluid side" white, like on Delphan Gruss over here. It worked in that case because the background was an off-white colour. But when I initially painted the top of these canisters white it just didn't work. 

When I though more about it, I realized that the inside of these canisters would be shrouded in shadow, so I tried to emulate that. 

I hope you enjoyed this look at a big bruiser that I'll be using in Necromunda. Stay tuned for more awesomeness on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: Lost in Space

Reading: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Listening: "Welcome Home, Son" - Radical Face 

Next Week:

Getting lost again in the Silver Tower...