Contrast… contrast speeds things up considerably. Unless you’re me, then you’d feel compelled to go back and add shadows where it missed and then do 3 levels of full highlight.
YakComp 52 - Big Guy
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On an actual related note to the thread, I think I have a guy that might fit this bill.
Plus several Necromunda Ogryn.
(C’mon MusingWarboss you’ve already got 3 painting projects on…)
Plus several Necromunda Ogryn.
(C’mon MusingWarboss you’ve already got 3 painting projects on…)
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Skaven Stig Shambler
Here is a “big guy” I started earlier, all glued together and waiting for paint. Perhaps if I procrastinate a couple weeks longer I might be able to enter him?
Here is a “big guy” I started earlier, all glued together and waiting for paint. Perhaps if I procrastinate a couple weeks longer I might be able to enter him?
Slowly plugging away at the troll. Gotta say this is a beautiful kit, so many options and all fitting together nicely, but the flip side of all those options is indecision about which one to choose. In the end I went with my first instinct of a fairly static pose, glaring down at the opposing line of scrimmage in front of him.
I’ll be magnetising both wrists and the neck, and probably siting a magnet for a possible future tail. I’m using at least two magnet points per wrist joint to avoid the hands spinning. Had a bit of a mare lining up the right wrist magnets with those in the hand. When it came to the left wrist I remembered this useful trick of painting the area around the magnet holes with chalk paint and using that to print on to the other part where the holes should go.
For those who aren’t Blood Bowl officionados, the Underworld team is one of two whose players can readily gain mutations as they gain experience, and I like the idea of representing these on the model - hence magnets.
Apart from the magnetisation the other build jobs will be gap filling and concealing where the parts joined, and integrating a chunk or two of warpstone into the trolls flesh (skaven being up to their usual tricks).
I’m magnetising the neck mostly because I couldn’t decide between the head options (kit comes with 10 or so, and I really liked 3 of them), but also in case I do a tentacled head or something. But the first head I’ll work on (and probably the only one for now) is the one in the kit that has a rock tied to his head. This really tickled my fancy and gave me a chuckle. However, I’ve decided to replace the rock with a deflated blood bowl ball. It’ll still be a nice homage to the original kits head, but place the model squarely as a BB one. I’ve kept the rock which I may stick on the base as a further nod to the origins of the model.
I’ll be magnetising both wrists and the neck, and probably siting a magnet for a possible future tail. I’m using at least two magnet points per wrist joint to avoid the hands spinning. Had a bit of a mare lining up the right wrist magnets with those in the hand. When it came to the left wrist I remembered this useful trick of painting the area around the magnet holes with chalk paint and using that to print on to the other part where the holes should go.
For those who aren’t Blood Bowl officionados, the Underworld team is one of two whose players can readily gain mutations as they gain experience, and I like the idea of representing these on the model - hence magnets.
Apart from the magnetisation the other build jobs will be gap filling and concealing where the parts joined, and integrating a chunk or two of warpstone into the trolls flesh (skaven being up to their usual tricks).
I’m magnetising the neck mostly because I couldn’t decide between the head options (kit comes with 10 or so, and I really liked 3 of them), but also in case I do a tentacled head or something. But the first head I’ll work on (and probably the only one for now) is the one in the kit that has a rock tied to his head. This really tickled my fancy and gave me a chuckle. However, I’ve decided to replace the rock with a deflated blood bowl ball. It’ll still be a nice homage to the original kits head, but place the model squarely as a BB one. I’ve kept the rock which I may stick on the base as a further nod to the origins of the model.
Ok, I have located the big resin dude I was thinking of!
I shall add him onto my “Paint those Orlocks you assembled last year!” Project so they can have something to hire when finished.
He’s surprisingly tall!!
I shall add him onto my “Paint those Orlocks you assembled last year!” Project so they can have something to hire when finished.
He’s surprisingly tall!!
Spent way too much time on this guy’s skin. Realised he should probably have a sleeve of tattoos so I’ll probably cover it all up. 
CaptainDangerous
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Potential entry 1:
Can I enter this without having to do the yakcomp jig? (I put it together a couple of month ago)
It is made up to be the biggest boy of house gryphonicus, Bellator Magno!
note:I dared venture into the outside to take this pic, in the captain’s woefully underused garden lair!
Can I enter this without having to do the yakcomp jig? (I put it together a couple of month ago)
It is made up to be the biggest boy of house gryphonicus, Bellator Magno!
note:I dared venture into the outside to take this pic, in the captain’s woefully underused garden lair!
If you want to enter it then @trollmeat can enter his skavenshambler too.
One off competition dispensation for Big Guys.
There is still a long time left in the comp and you could quite reasonably have built it in the last few days.
One off competition dispensation for Big Guys.
There is still a long time left in the comp and you could quite reasonably have built it in the last few days.
Meh, building a kit isn't a big deal IMO.
I think the rule was more for if you're doing a big elaborate conversion or building something from scratch that took you the whole of last month and counting that as "competition work". I 3D printed my entry in advance which amounts to the same advantage as assembling a kit.
Everyone builds kits years in advance before they actually paint them... right?
I think the rule was more for if you're doing a big elaborate conversion or building something from scratch that took you the whole of last month and counting that as "competition work". I 3D printed my entry in advance which amounts to the same advantage as assembling a kit.
Everyone builds kits years in advance before they actually paint them... right?
CaptainDangerous
Officer, without number, head turner, troll burner
Staff member
Yak Comp 3rd Place
Tribe Council
Thank ye wise Stoof, now, about this one:
Potential entry 2:
He’s not a mini per say, but he was bought with the intention of being a ‘counts as’ 40k Knight before realising he was too big!?!
Introducing Magno Bellawotsit, biggest of big lads!
My initial idea was to scrounge some Knight weapons and say he is like a fallout super mutant behemoth! But when iv looked at him compared to other minis it just wouldn’t look right on the table (not that I play much/at all) so I’m just painting him up and he can be a mascot of the Krablokistan 48th!
Potential entry 2:
He’s not a mini per say, but he was bought with the intention of being a ‘counts as’ 40k Knight before realising he was too big!?!
Introducing Magno Bellawotsit, biggest of big lads!
My initial idea was to scrounge some Knight weapons and say he is like a fallout super mutant behemoth! But when iv looked at him compared to other minis it just wouldn’t look right on the table (not that I play much/at all) so I’m just painting him up and he can be a mascot of the Krablokistan 48th!
Well… sorta. I often build some stuff, start painting, finish for the day and then return to it after a short 3-10 year gap.Everyone builds kits years in advance before they actually paint them... right?
Wow! He IS a big one. Is he also posable?
CaptainDangerous
Officer, without number, head turner, troll burner
Staff member
Yak Comp 3rd Place
Tribe Council
All his joints move if that’s the same thing? He’s from a darktide action figure range, I found him in B&M (a value homestore) for only 15 quid!
Save time. Just paint the entire arm deep turquoise. Seen a fair few of those about lately, including a chap working at Warhammer World!Spent way too much time on this guy’s skin. Realised he should probably have a sleeve of tattoos so I’ll probably cover it all up.
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I guess they got bored of the previous design(s) and just went full “town council tackles graffiti” on it.
Just skimmed through my pics - first blutac’d my Stig/Skaven Shambler together on the 4th May, and had it all converted and glued up by the 7th.
I’ve already done penance penalty time to cover the modelling, but I just need to convince the arbitrator to let me recruit a brute ‘cos then I’d have a fortnight to get it ready for the next battle!
Alternatively, I might just continue to wait for inspiration to finish basing it and throw some paint on… so if the arbitrator doesn’t let me take it I might start painting when there is about a week to go
I've decided that a Pit Fighter must be big enough. So I'm in! Progress in my plog:
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MedMos' WIP - the slowjuicer of Plogs
I started kitbashing a Pit Fighter, for the latest yakcomp. Early days yet, though others have already finished... :D
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Lovely and fast work @Tiny. I particularly like the grizzled 5 o clock shadow face.
I plug away slowly at the troll. The wrist joins are perfected with a thin layer of milliput press moulded so the join is flush, and I added some wristband trinkets to the left wrist as well as this sort of detail serves to conceal the magnet joint.
Milliput also used to conceal the part joins around the body (a job I have recently learned it is infinitely better suited to than green stuff, since it is water soluble so can be feathered with a wet brush).
The bigger jobs have been adding a couple of warp stone crystals growing from his shoulders (sculpted from sprue) extending some scales around the neck to hide a too obvious line where the neck piece attaches, and of course the deflated blood bowl ball which will be tied to his head.
Big guys on my teams have form for this detail, as one mummy on my undead team sports a deflated ball pierced on a shoulder spike.
I just have to add the actual strap that will tie the ball to his head and then should be able to move to paint.
I plug away slowly at the troll. The wrist joins are perfected with a thin layer of milliput press moulded so the join is flush, and I added some wristband trinkets to the left wrist as well as this sort of detail serves to conceal the magnet joint.
Milliput also used to conceal the part joins around the body (a job I have recently learned it is infinitely better suited to than green stuff, since it is water soluble so can be feathered with a wet brush).
The bigger jobs have been adding a couple of warp stone crystals growing from his shoulders (sculpted from sprue) extending some scales around the neck to hide a too obvious line where the neck piece attaches, and of course the deflated blood bowl ball which will be tied to his head.
Big guys on my teams have form for this detail, as one mummy on my undead team sports a deflated ball pierced on a shoulder spike.
I just have to add the actual strap that will tie the ball to his head and then should be able to move to paint.
Quickly finished the strap this morning before work. I’m pretty chuffed with the sculpting overall here. Here he is ready to clean up and prime (with startling “load out” and a dungeon base made from plasticard).
Test paint scheme #1. Waiting for feedback from Thunderbrush Studios, but also going to try out a red one and a green one (this kit comes with a lot of spare arms!).
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