Hello, welcome back to another riveting¹ edition of The Ravening Kriels paint articles. Today's story: Grim Angus. Our story picks up where our talented sculptor left off, a heavily modified, reposed model made from ork bits, original work, and filled gaps. The end result however, really gives the model a well-travelled look fitting for the Hallowed Hunstman.™
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| On the front side, you'll notice grey. |
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| On the back, yet more grey. |
For this paint article, I actually had the foresight to take photos of the painting process. However, this is in no way an artifact of this paintjob starting after this blog began.² Same process as usual though, an undercoat of GW Eshin Grey. Readers with discerning eyes will also notice that the net gun and holster have been detached. It actually came loose due to my own poor quality transportation, but I then just negotiated it the rest of the way off so I could paint it and the back of Angus more completely, so it was more of a happy little accident³.
The paint builds up from there, the initial layers I put down on Angus were a panoply of browns, metallics, and greens. The skin tone is a 4:4:1 mix of GW of Skarsnik Green, Dawnstone, and Ceramite White. Angus' lenses I started building up with a 1:1 mix of Zamesi Desert and Warpfiend Grey.
And here we have the primary layer of washes, mostly GW Agrax Earthshade again, in its infinite versatility.⁴ The skin was washed in Camoshade, and the fur on the knife in Nuln Oil.
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| Angus, what do your ork eyes see? |
And this is the overexposed finale, fully drybrushed and detailed, net gun fully painted and reattached over the right shoulder. The drybrushing process was a bit tricky, given all the different surfaces and different colors that wound up so close together, but was still just as fun as ever.
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| I don't need to be careful, I've got a gun |
Drybrushing Angus' rifle was definitely challenging, with the wood and metal being so close together. The end of the barrel I drybrushed in some Hashut Copper to give a more rusty, beaten look. On top of that, I very, very gently drybrushed a little black on top of it the give the powder-burnt look of a trusty and well-used blunderbuss. The lens was built up with more Zamesi Desert, and Flash Gitz Yellow. I then painted in in 'Ardcoat for a final glassy finish.
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| Our editor told me I couldn't make a Crocodile Dundee joke here. Something about "standards" |
The bone-knife stapped to Angus' back was another exercise in careful brushwork. The final layer was picked out one tuft at a time in Dawnstone. The sheath was painted in Rhinox Hide, washed in Earthshade, then drybrushed in Doombull Brown. That odd shade of salmony⁵ brown on the straps is Tuskgor Fur washed in Nuln Oil.
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| When one gun won't work, use more gun. |
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| All sleeping bags are military grade green, its in the rules |
Angus' net gun and holster were done up with similar shades of brown and metallics, washed, then drybrushed. I tried to put some variation in color on the gun itself in the hopes of catching some extra attention.⁶ The backpack was also drybrushed, but I picked out the "liner" of it in GW Bleached Bone. The sleeping bag was similarly drybrushed in a very sparing coat of Death World Forest
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| Long coats add that extra bit of flourish to any dramatic change in direction |
Angus' coat, most of his clothes, and his boots were all drybrushed in an additional coat of Gorthor Brown to give that weather-beaten aesthetic to the whole model.. Angus is supposed to be a very well-traveled warlock and I felt the model needed to show that just as much as any other model you've seen thus far.
1. "Riveting" is a bit strong [ed.]
2. You're not fooling anyone [ed.]
3. Dude, we can't say that on here, those Bob Ross people might sue us [ed.]
4. Stop trying to get free stuff [ed.]
5. You need to stop making up words [ed.]
6. You? Attention-seeking? Goodness, no [ed.]
