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Tuesday 11 September 2012

A Challenge of Giant Proportions...

So on the back of my post about the FF Ferocious Ogre/Day-glo orange Giant from the 3rd ed rulebook, my old LAF buddy Phreedh has lain down the gauntlet. A paint off to the finishing line on our FF Ogre variants!

Last time we indulged in a similar contest he won, although I forget what we were painting, the memory being so painful! Well this time I intend to even the score.

My painting desk is clear...

I'm stocked up on orange paint...

And I've just about finished cleaning the big fella up - 

 
I've even had a go at pushing some putty round - there was a huge nasty mold line that needed some attention and this chap is made of that slightly bendy plastic that doesn't take well to files. I managed to cut most of it away without any huge slip-ups, although there were some areas that needed smoothing out.


And some new toes making! The original feet were a little soft on detail and as these great loafers are going to be the last thing many a miniature will see on the tabletop, I felt they could do with some attention. I'm certainly not very skilled in sculpting and I'm pretty sure Miliput wasn't the best material to use, but I was pleasantly surprised with the results of my efforts!


I've also extended his mullet to hide the join between head and shoulders - luckily he doesn't have particularly fine hair so my rudimentary hair dressing skills were able to emulate his unruly bonnet.


I need to a bit more work on his hand to block up the unused weapon slot and give some more definition to his fingers. Next time he'll have some paint on him hopefully...

5 comments:

  1. A lot of inspirations here! Thanks for sharing!
    Regards
    derFigurenschieber

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  2. Can't wait to see this finished! - great idea!

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  3. Can I enter the competition? Though obviously the first to get two painted up is the winner.

    I'm going to have to show you a trick I learnt in my soft plastic 20mm war gaming days about removing mould lines. It involves a candle and a pin, you can probably guess the rest.

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    1. Haha - more than welcome Erny. I may bow out of round two though!

      Clever trick that - definitely better than my hatchet job.

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  4. Thanks fellas - tidy up and base coat tonight. More pics when there's something interesting to see.

    Mind you, can't have the competition getting too many insights to my progress ;)

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