Hungry Beyond Mortal Ken

"No recognised school had animated this terrible creature, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone."

If ever there was truly a flagship model to this army, it would be Mulg. Our crack team of scientific experts have already proven Mulg's potent position of palpable primacy, and we persist to placate your plaintive pleas for a paintjob with plenty of panache.¹

To that end, I present this exposé on what was, in all seriousness, a solid weekend of painting and something I always love to drop on the table to strike terror into the hearts of heavy warjacks.

Armor isn't really necessary when you're made from mountain and meat.

As was the case with the Mauler, I tried to go for a very lurid, hulkish shade of green. This wound up being much more pronounced² with the size of the model and the deep recesses of the plastic. As my esteemed colleague already pointed out[Stop it] noted, the end result of the build phase of this project was a bit of a coloration disaster. Despite that, yours truly was already accustomed to leaping that particular hurdle. After a quick coat of GW Eshin Grey covered our trollkin sovereign, the future color scheme started to become clear.

Me and this club got a few choice words for him.

Where's that little punk Physics?

Mulg's skin was coated in GW's ork standby base color, Waaagh Flesh. This gave a hearty and deep green on top of the grey undercoat. From there, he was coated in Biel-Tan Green wash to keep the robust³ hue I was looking for. After that, it was just a matter of picking my most cartoonish greens to drybrush as the top layer of skin to really give those muscles more definition than a 90s X-Man.

"As he turned on his heel to leave, his loincloth
fluttered with an indignance to match his own 

The majesty of Mulg the Magnificent blinds
even the finest human cameras

Seeing as how nudity, no matter how tasteful or...green...is usually frowned upon in polite company, the Tyrant of Teeth™ was provided with a loincloth replete with the standard protective runestones and belly guard. The metal needed to have a rusty hue, so liberal use of brown washes and more cuprous⁴ paint was used. The loincloth was even more fun to paint, with multiple shades of brown and tan coming into play. The effect on the runestones was also surprisingly easy to create. All that was required was GW Dawnstone, a Nuln Oil wash to settle into the carvings, and a drybrush of Dawnstone again to highlight.

Lots of things can be used as a club against the powerless, especially a club

Our Lumbering Liegelord™ still deserved a weapon befitting his station. The detachable Rune Club crafted by my esteemed colleague⁵ also came with nice deep recesses for a wash to seep into. I painted this with a warm GW Doombull Brown, and washed it a few times alternating between brown and black until I had the shadows nice and deep to give the wood an aged look. The spiky bands were painted first with GW Leadbelcher, washed in Earthshade, then drybrushed in Brass Scorpion.

While carrying a copy of your manuscript might be
more economical

Having it engraved in magical runes into your back
is much more permanent

But now we come to my grand piece of resistance for this model, the living krielstone that makes up Mulg's back. This section really gives the model the signature profile it has and needs to be treated with a commensurate amount of care. A running theme with this part of the Ravening Kriels' paint scheme has been red runes. The complementary colors provided a really healthy contrast on the model and help the runes stand out much more than simply having a dark color recede further into the plastic.

I knew that I was not nearly talented enough to paint the red into the runes after the rest of the stone was painted, so I used a very high level professional painting technique and...well...just didn't do that. Instead, I slathered on a bright, angry red across the krielstone and got the paint into the nooks and crannies of Mulg's back mounted novella. Afterwards, I started drybrushing over the red in GW Dawnstone. This created the desired effect of both having the red coming from within the deeper parts of the model, and some of the red still bled through the grey paint to create a sort of reddish glow around the runes.

That smile was in fact voted Shaman Quarterly's
"Most Desirable Mandible" in 232 AR

The overall painting process for the Mulg the Ancient took the dire troll's share of a weekend to paint. However, resurrecting ancient proto-deities is another side-hobby that contains many skills that coincide with painting a trollkin conversion project like this one. I truly believe this to be a triumph of our combined efforts to make this project a reality. Thank you again, gentle reader, for your continued interest in The Ravening Kriels. Stay tuned for more articles, same troll time, same troll channel.⁶



1. Alliteration was never funny [ed.]
2. We've already hit our monthly quota of P words [ed.]
3. Robust? Really? You're trying a bit too hard [ed.]
4. Chemistry jokes don't track well [ed.]
5. Seriously, I don't know how long you can keep relying on that line [ed.]
6. We all know these posts have no strict time-table [ed.]