What are you working on today?

[The Road Warrior]

You finished your chaos troll? It looks awesome!

[Thantos]

Complaints: The logo came of the Exacto knife straight away, the plastic handle looks cheap, not like the one on the box. It doesn't grip the blade tight enough either, no matter how much you tighten it up.

Good luck! With blades, you really cant beat a surgical scalpel handle. With number 11 blade. No Faff, no wobbly blade

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Amazing stuff, love the retro style chaos crab claw especially !

[knightkrawler]

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Awesome. I recognize a River Troll. Did you do everything else yourself or is there some sort of bit basis underneath the head and the claw?

[ampersand]

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Awesome. I recognize a River Troll. Did you do everything else yourself or is there some sort of bit basis underneath the head and the claw?

yup all ready to paint..im not going to paint it for a while though as i'm not really that inspired with colours at the moment for it.
and yeh its just a river troll that i built up ontop of. some of the spikes on his head and his arm come from one of the river trolls weapons but other than that its all sculpt work

[knightkrawler]

I would love to paint that thing up in a wild color scheme.

[ampersand]

thats the plan really. i want to take a new approach to painting that ive not tried before. ive seen a method where a selection of colours are blended as the base colour then build the colours up over the base to form a subtle mixture of colours. only thing is. i dont have a clue what its called. and i always like to do my research before i try anything new.

[knightkrawler]

Where did you see it?

[ampersand]

not entirely sure. various places really. it seems to be something done by more advanced painters most definitely. it may well of been on a glottkin that i saw it last but cant find anything so far that is helpful of sorts

[knightkrawler]

Have you taken a look at [url]wappellious.blogspot.de[/url]?
Three of his last four posts deal with his Shaded Basecoat technique, where he lays down basecoats rapidly and haphazardly, highlights them up with drybrushing and wetbrushing and then glazes and washes in the darker areas, cleaning up midtones and highlights afterwards.
Reading your description, James Wappel's technique was the first that sprang to mind and the technique would be the basis of what I would use on a chaotically colorful model like your troll there.

[whitebeard]

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Incredible! But so far nobody has pointed out the extra arm with the claw. Just like the dwarf with 6 fingers!

Serriously though. Incredible vision, to take the river troll (which already is an amazing model) and do this! Then to be able to actually pull it off? I am humbled.