"Gaze of Grungni" - Endrinmaster with Endrinharness

Endrinmasters are peerless combat mechanics, 

well used to conducting emergency repairs 

in the white heat of battle.

- Games Workshop

Welcome one and all to The Art of Caesura!

We've spent the past few weeks looking at my magnetized Endrinriggers / Skywardens, but today we'll be casting our (Grungni's) gaze over one of the senior members of the Endrineers Guild: The Endrinmaster with Endrinharness.

I really like this guy! I know that in general the Steampunk aesthetic of the Kharadron Overlords can be divisive - especially in a Mythic-/Epic-/High- fantasy setting. So, with his manicured metal moustache-plate, oversized hammer, and portable forge (complete with anvil and chimney!) I could see him being a bit Marmite. Fortunately, as I said, I'm digging it!

Pre-shade.

Clearly I didn't learn from my sub-assembly hell with the Skyriggers (well actually through crazy-aether timey-wimeyness I actually painted this guy before them). Actually, for detailed minis with a "closed" posture (holding their weapons across the front of their body) I prefer to paint most of them with their arms off to get into all their tummy bits. 

Post-shade.

As per yoozh, here's my Barak Mhornar recipe, to save you clicking back to old posts:

Base Colours:

Under-suit: Ushabti Bone

Armour: Stegadon Scale Green

Copper: Screaming Bell

Steel: Leadbelcher

Brown: 2:1 mix of Doombull Brown + Abaddon Black

Aether-effects: White Scar

Gold medallion: Retributor Armour

Weapon wrapping: Screamer Pink

Effects:

Aether-effects: cover white with 1:4 Contrast Talassar Blue : Contrast Medium

Shades:

Under-suit, Copper, Brown: Agrax Earthshade

Armour, Steel: Nuln Oil

Gold: Agrax Earthshade, followed by Druchii Violet

Highlights:

Under-suit: Ushabti Bone + White Scar

Armour: Stegadon Scale Green + Sotek Green then adding Lothern Blue

Copper: Hashut Copper + Stormhost Silver. 

Steel: Runefang Steel + Stormhost Silver

Brown: 2:1 mix of Doombull Brown + Ushabti Bone

The only other special thing I did for this guy was that I painted most of his lenses different colours. The two lenses on his left eye (right side of the picture) were painted in the same way as my aether effects (cover white with 1:4 Contrast Talassar Blue : Contrast Medium), his right eye used the same dilution with Contrast Nazdreg Yellow and for the lens that pops down, I used Contrast Fleshtearers Red to make it look like a red laser (the real Gaze of Grungni). 

I made his base the same way I make all my KO bases.

With so many details, I find the best choice is to really consciously limit your palette. I stuck to just two colours for the metal (silver and copper...okay and his little gold trinket). 

I used minimal weathering on this guy because I figured that he is a literal blacksmith and would probably keep his own gear in pretty good nick. 

I always love taking in the verisimilitude that the sculptors put into the models: you can see the little hinged door on the back of his chimney stack which would allow him to stoke the fire. You can follow the tubes from his backpack to his hammer and imagine how they might power the gear mechanism to open and close the vice grip of the hammer head. However, I can't quite figure out what the hinge on the back of the anvil would do...

Anyway, I can see how this miniature might be divisive, but I think he's great!

Tune in next week when he'll be joined by another Kharadron hero, right here on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: Alien Worlds
Gaming: MK 11

Next Week:

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