Hierophant by Christmas

[nuklearangel]

Yes a week after I got the model, the assembly is complete and I sprayed it today. The weather held up by a thread and it was a bit rainy this morning, but amidst the grey cloud I broke out the chaos black spray and hit it with it. Clunk!

Now its sitting in my bathroom with the vent on drying. That much spray makes quite a stink! It was actually quite hard to undercoat without going overboard, there are so many small details in the ribs and whatnot that you gotta go easy with a lot of quick passes of the can to get them all and not flood it.



Yup, its very black.

The scheme is going to be standard Behemoth, which is right up my alley, my own army is extremely close to that, with a bluish carapace highlight instead of a turquoise. Easy peasy it should go fairly quick, with my own army almost full painted I have had a lot of practice with the techniques Though it still is a huge model, and my "large" citadel brush seems so small.

[nuklearangel]

First off... for those of you who celebrate it.. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! Gobble Gobble!

I took a few hours this morning while my wife was cooking up a storm and slapped on the first coat of paint. I gotta say thank god for the good coverage of mechrite red, it made it relatively painless though it still took 4 and a half hours or so to get it all over. It looks great already hehe! Heres a few pics.







Next up, red ink wash then a highlight of blood red. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, we'll see, there is a LOT of food to eat

Paint time - 5 hours

[Scizor]

looks great so far! im getting one of those myself for x-mas

[zark]

That is awesome mate, and ghow good is mechrite red for covering black

[murah]

Wow dude, cool. who ever gets that is gonna be one happy camper.
In more than one case, the foundation paints have saved me from countless coats and hours of painting, keep up the good work.

[Pheonix]

dude... your getting me hot just anticipating your next pictures... i want one now... not to play with... just to paint... that is all... ok i admit it i want to play with it... but dont tell the other eldar players... kinda thier leader, being the supreme commander of the eldar and all.

[thepuritan]

scizor said:

im getting one of those myself for x-mas

...and now i'm jealous of two people.

[Scizor]

hehe. the phant is not the only thing im gettin though. the other things have sumtin with a large flying nid to do

[Tauranid]

You're getting GARGOYLES too? You rich, lucky dog! I spent my entire college fund on my Ripper Swarms!

[murah]

I think he means a Harridan.

[Scizor]

indeed i meant the harridan!

[nuklearangel]

Phoar nice Scizor you're going to have an apocalyptic Christmas for sure!

So today I picked up the base I asked the guy at the woodworking shop right next to where I work. A massive 15 inch circle! Yeah.. looking at it I soon realized that for display that would be fine but for gaming... thats way too big. So once I got home, I put the 'Phant on it and had a looksee. After some measurements, I found I can actually get away with a 10 inch square base. Perfect! Thats the right size for gaming and it means I can still have a torso support rod.



I had toyed around with other ideas, one being a kind of rounded "x" shape, but I think a neat square does the trick best. So now I solved that problem I feel a lot better. Truly the base was the part that was causing me to pause the most.

I am going to decorate it with another part of the crashed Maccrage shuttle, and also put in 10 magnetized rippers for wound counters. Works great especially since he regenerates too, you can pull them off or put em back as much as you please. Some nice rocks, slate and sand and it'll be good.

I also put a coat of watered down red ink over the whole thing (well not the carapace and details but yeah), I think it really darkened the red very nicely and the slimy look is perfect for all the ribs and niddy bits.





There was also this sighting hurriedly scrawled down by my darling 6 year old daughter. Those poor imperials don't stand a chance I had her paint her first mini too the other day, she's really into it



Paint time - 7 hours

[murah]

that drawing..... is epic And nice idea of the ripper wound counters, love it.

[krakenfiend]

Hah...that drawing is funny....I'm afraid of My Heirophant....The sculpt is terrible (rotten forge world). I'll have to follow gareth's guide to putting that beast together next year....

nuklearangel: Looks really good so far...just take your time and be careful...the heirophant is a VERY fragile model.

krakenfiend

[nuklearangel]

Thanks Murah and Kraken. Yeah it is quite fragile,but with all the reinforcing instructed by Gareth's wonderful guide the 'Phant turned out fairly stable. Especially the spikes on the body, pinning them is so essential as I have found, mine are all rock solid and I have to old them a lot as I paint, if they weren't pinned I know SO many would have fallen off.

So I keep the fires burning and laid down the Blood Red coat. Its now close to midnight and 5 hours tonight is enough. That will be it for now, tomorrow I will do all the fleshy detail, then go back and blazing orange highlight edges. I probably will end up doing another red coat to neaten it up a bit. Heres a couple o pics anyway.





Paint Time - 10 hours