Ettin

For today I have another of the great oldhammer style monsters sculpted by Diego Serrate, the Ettin. In this case, due to the sheer size of it, I asked him to deliver it in resin as opposed to metal that I chose for the rest of the figures. I think it was a great choice as the details were captured perfectly and there was not a single error in the figure. I do not know who is the manufacturer for Diego, but they rock!

This figure stands quite tall, you will see on the family photo that I will post in a few weeks, it is taller than the Tainted Troll and it's almost as the Shaggoth.

It was a bit challenging to paint it, because it is mainly flesh, wood and leather; all brownish colours, which can make the figure just a blur of different shades of brown. I tried my best to differentiate each part and to tone up and down the colours to make sure they were not all mixed, there are also plenty of glazes to give a bit of colour to some areas of the flesh to show the decay of Chaos or some latent mutations. I hope that all of this effort has payed off, as I look at the figure, I do not see just a blur of the same colour so I think I manage to achieve what I wanted, but you tell me.

To break a little bit the more or less empty base, I put in a familiar that was given as a free perk on the Kickstarter, as it is pointing somewhere, I think it adds a little nice effect as the Ettin does not look like the sharpest mind around.

I think the nicest part of the figure are the faces, in particular, the Cyclops one, with the massive eye. I tried my best to make a fully detailed eye, there is a close-up in which you can see that I painted the little veins around it and some light reflection, it's the first time that I do it and I can say that I will try it again as I liked the effect.

As a last note I will mention that these photos have been made with a lightbox from Flying Tiger that cost me 5€, so that I could retire the home-made one that I have been using since 2015. The pictures have been taken with a phone, but I think they have more or less the same quality as before, and the process is simply ten times faster.

'Nuff said, I will let the pics speak for themselves!

Painted in 2018

The Guardian

I am not a big fan of this sculpt, but as it was a free perk for the Kickstarters of the campaign, I can't really complaint.

I painted it with a golden armour and grey trousers. Nothing too fancy as I just wanted to paint him fast and have him ready.

Painted in 2018

Vargal Mansplitter

This figure is simply great. It is a pity that Games Workshop stopped creating miniatures like this one and simply decided to focus Chaos on Beastman and Humans.

This figure shows some kind of lizard dressed up in full plate holding a halberd, and it is a great sculpt that I had lots of fun painting!

I decided to paint the plate in brown/gold to have a striking contrast with the green skin. I am quite satisfied with the end result.

Painted in 2018

Johan Grisst

This is one of the troops that mix this feeling of chaos with funny, really old school.

I painted the face with a pale shade of flesh and to make sure nobody can mistake him for a human I gave him green eyes.

The colour scheme is simple, mainly grey for armour and I gave him green boots to add some colour to the otherwise too dark scheme.

Painted in 2018

Malar Bjornling

This one is painted in exactly the same way as Rhaegar, which is red as a proper Khorne follower should be.

Painted in 2018.

Morkar Skullcrusher

I have painted this one as a Tzeentch follower, using blue and pink as main colours. It is a scheme I am following with the warband.

I decided to give him a huge shield even though I think the original does not have it, so I could paint it because the design is simply gorgeous.

The whole miniature was painted quite fast as it mainly has two colours.

Painted in 2018

I did not manage to get a better shot of the shield, aside from this low resolution granular picture. But at least you can see the fabulous design!

Rhaegar

I have painted this Chaos Warrior as a Khorne follower and with a very simple colour scheme.

Red for the armour with some orange highlights, grey for metals and grey and flesh for the skin used as cape. Quite a quick paint job for what I am used to.

Painted in 2018