There is precious little in civilization
to appeal to a Yeti.
- Edmund Hillary
Greetings friends, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
Today we're heading back to the Hyborian Age to take a look at another monster from Monolith's Conan Miniatures game.
I was perusing our local bookshop the other day and this book caught my eye:
Like Mulder and Scully, I want to believe. How cool would it be to have as-of-yet undiscovered off-branchings of the Homo lineage living in the vast Himalayan range (and the epic forests of North America (Sasquatch).
Anyway, it inspired me to paint an Abominable Snowman of my own. Only problem was, I didn't have one.
What I did have was the Man-Ape from Monolith's Conan game.
It was the scraggly hair around this guy's head that really sold me on the idea of turning him into a Yeti.
The paint job on this guy was very quick, and I think a good application of how effective Contrast Paints can be when used with some intentionality.
From a Grey Seer spray, I painted the fur with Contrast Apothecary White and the skin with Contrast Space Wolves Grey diluted 1:1 with Contrast Medium.
I didn't feel like I was getting enough contrast in the fur, so I tried a light White Scar drybrush. This took me to the stage in my work-in-progress picture above. Still not quite there...
...So I shaded all the fur with 1:1 Nuln Oil : Lahmian Medium, and re-drybrushed it. Finally I did some extra highlights with a fine-detail brush around the face and thighs.
All that was left was the base, (which I made in a simlar, though less involved, manner as the previous Conan miniature that I altered) and then the model's details.
I painted his mouth and eye-sockets with S75's African Shadow, and then highlighted his eyes with Mephiston Red, Yriel Yellow and white. His teeth are Ushabti Bone. Finally, I gave his scars, hands and feet a very diluted wash of Druchii Violet for a little more interest, though it's not really visible in the photos.
And that was it! A fun, quick, effective model. We'll be looking at another mini that fits that brief next week on The Art of Caesura!
Reading: The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness - Michelle Alexander
Watching: Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet (see the drinking game that my wife and I made)
Gaming: Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Next Week:
Swamp Thing...
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