I found another one of these ugly bastards! I cleaned it up, glued it to a 40mm base and stuck sand and some slate chips to it. Primed the whole thing, basecoated it in a ruddy flesh tone, washed it with Reikland Fleshshade (or something to that effect) and then lost/forgot about it for… well, at least one year. It’s resurfaced onto my painting desk recently, and had been bouncing around, ignored for a couple of months.

So then recently, I decided to try to clean up my desk a little by getting rid of this model by painting it. Since I gave the previous one a dark skin tone, this one got the aforementioned ruddy tone for a bit of variety on duplicated models.

As with the other one it was a pretty quick and easy paintjob – not bothering with things like tattoos or additional painted textures, and keeping the whole thing to a relatively limited earthy palette. I believe I have a third one of these somewhere, as I sawed off one of the clubs for a conversion elsewhere. If it ever rears its head I’ll likely graft a new wespon onto it and then knock it out as well.

This is an April model – I’ve yet to clear the table so I can photograph March’s round-up. Hopefully sometime this weekend, but in the meantime I’ll try to be less than a full calendar month behind in posting my stuff…

Anyone remember Dark World? For everyone outside of the three of you that do, it was a miniatures boardgame that came out in 1991, following on from the success of HeroQuest, using very GW-inspired model designs. Though I’m not sure if anyone ever played the game, as opposed to getitng hold of it and then just owning a bunch of pretty decent for the time plastic models.

I’ve still got a couple of these models left. I painted the Haunter …8 years ago (fuck, I’m getting so OLD!) and I’ve got a few of the Skellies and Mummies in my Undead army (no idea about photos) and this ugly bastard of an ogre sculpt had been floating around since.. well I guess since 1991. Earlier this year, during Monster MayHem in fact, I decided to start painting him. I didn’t get him finished until slightly afterwards, and so here he is.

Simple schemes for simple models, right? I have to admit, I’m actually quite pleased with how this model came out. And it didn’t even take long once I got going. That’s the thing with so many of these things, though – with so much to do it’s often difficult to just focus on a single miniature and get it done. Even now on my painting desk aside from the things that are just parked there, I’ve got multiple sets of terrain and four wargaming units all “on the go” at once. Not counting any of the other things I have waiting in the wings.

Well, I can at least say that this thing is done, and since I have no idea where the other one(s?) are, I won’t have to worry about any more of these sitting around in the way for quite some time!