Finished! The Topaz Wyrmling

Behold the Topaz Wyrmling, young is it's knowledge and eternity awaits for higher learning. I had a blast on this piece, nothing was destroyed, on fire, or bleeding which is my usual forte. I will quickly be back to that forte but this was a great experience that pulled a different train of thought out.

You may notice that it is detachable from the base, this was requested by Dan and I was happy to oblige. The bonus is that another model could be inserted in the future and the backdrop can be viewed in it entirety, neat!

Shop!

WIP: Archaon the Everchosen Part 3

This time around I'm in the process of adding many many hours of brushwork to the Everchosen. Finally able to detail the focus areas of this monster :) Mainly the three heads and Archaon himself.

Before laying down any of the brass tones I basecoaed the areas with P3's Moldy Ocrhe. Looks bad at first but the following layers went on a lot cleaner.

Finally, it was time to put some detail into those three heads. Which finally felt like the project was moving forward at a good pace. I had to pick and choose which areas to paint and which areas to use as a grip. My oily human paws would rub away the paint with all the flipping and twisting I had to do to get at every area.

WIP: Archaon, the Everchosen Part 2

Above is Archaon after a few hours under the airbrush. Below you will find how he became that way. Enjoy!

One by one the heads were toned out and bagged up.

Then I had to commit to a color for the body. It had to be something neutral but I also wanted to break away from the scheme pictured on the box. I wound up with what I call "Godzilla green". Archaon got some attention as well.

At this point he's ready for some close up attention, more to come on that next time :)

WIP: Archaon, The Everchosen

That's right! One big ass dragon, three heads, and a buff dude with demon powers, covered in armor. The stuff legends are made of. But every legend needs a place to stand in the world so I'll start with the base.

I wanted to capture something cataclysmic, possibly biblical. The story of Samson comes to mind, towards the end of it
 Something that would convey the power and size of Archaon descending to the temple of Sigmar. After seeing these pillars (pictured below) in the Secret Weapon booth at Adepticon, I decided I needed some for this piece. At first I placed on pillar in the front. The idea was to create a toppling effect but I decided it would block the view a little too much and moved it to the rear.

Here it is after some trial placements and debris organization.

"Your temples will sink and fall into the earth" is probably what Arcahon would say so I created a section of slate rocks to house an emerging stream of lava.

Then it was time for some smaller details. A few bones and some weapons discarded by the fear stricken mortals.

Today Archaon has been primed and will receive some airbrushing.

More to come so stay tuned!