I don’t make up these names. I couldn’t make up these names. Anyway, this rather odd model is another from the Conan Kickstarter. Anyway, this particular character is from more of the Conan Stories that I’ve never had a chance to read. The Wiki suggests that he has grey, elephant-like skin (Elephants and The Predator seem to be two of the main design inspirations for the model here) but I followed the artwork and went with the different skin tone for the large, weird model.
As with other models in this range that I know little to nothing about, I took my general painting cues from the box art as well as a bit of googling. The Conan Wiki describes this fellow as having “topaz” eyes, and so I went with the yellow that you can see here rather than the box-art red. Yellow because I felt that an actual topaz-like green would blend in too much with the Terradon Turquoise paint that I used as the basis for his skin. I did drybrush over the skin to bring it up, and it seems to have worked pretty well.
You see, this model sat around with only the base done for months and months before the Contrast Paints combined with the Awesome August challenge got me motivated enough to work on the thing, because I was simply not feeling this model after cracking it out of the box. I have to say – the contrast paints worked pretty well on this model. I also use Apothecary White over the cloth parts, and it did end up a bit darker than I’d anticipated – finishing as a light grey, but it’s still decent looking. The gold parts were also painted in Vallejo Model Air Gold with Contrast Nazdreg Yellow added over the top, and then drybrushed again with the gold. Shame about the bendy staff. Sure, I could have replaced it with wire, but to be quite blunt: Fuck that noise.
Despite the plan being to finish this model for Awesome August, It didn’t happen and he was instead finished in Early September. There is still actuallyone more August model for me to post, but I need to make some space to properly photograph it, and I haven’t had the chance to sort all of that out yet, so I’ll just start to show my September models instead.
As I said in regard to Baal-Pteor: I’m still not especially keen on this figure, but what can I say? He’s done – and still looks decent for a boardgame model. Certainly good enough for me, once again. On to more and better models now!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 