Finished: Gorbag

 

Gorbag is one of the commanders at Cirith Ungol, one of Shagrat's underlings. He's the first hero for Mordor I painted in 20 years (as years ago I painted one of the Nazgul, but as with most of my MESBG miniatures, I intend to repaint that model). The only "problem" with painting him is that currently I couldn't use this model in a game. He's available only for the Cirith Ungol list alongside Shagrat and the only regular warriors that Shagrat can have in his warband are Mordor Uruk-hai and I have none. So, unless in this new edition it's legal to have a general without a warband, Gorbag will have to wait on a shelf for the reinforcement to arrive.

The Miniature

It is a very old metal sculpt with all it's drawbacks. The details are ok, but for some reason undercoating this model hadn't been as easy as it was for the plastic orcs. I had to work on the model with black paint and then it chipped a bit during painting, so I had to go back with it.

The pose is fairly open, which helps with slapchop. The only area that was actually difficult to reach was the armpit on one of the arms.

The Scheme

I tried to recreate the box art with what I had and I ended up with:

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Militarum Green (Citadel) for the skin
3. Ratling Grime (Citadel) for the skin
4. Basilicanum Grey (Citadel) for the fur pants
5. Black Templar (Citadel) for the boots
6. Gore-Grunta Fur (Citadel) for the leather armour
7. Garaghak Sewer (Citadel) for all the straps and belts
8. Ushabti Bone (Citadel) for the teets
9. Heavy Metal (Army Painter) for the metal element
10. Voodoo Shade (Army Painter) for the metal elements
11. Base: Dark Earth, Agrax Earthshade, Gorthor Brown drybrush, Gamer's Grass 2mm Moss

Summary

Even though I generally don't like painting metal models, painting Mordor Orcs is fun in general. I do hope that I'll be able to field that model at one point, either in MESBG or some other fantasy game that accepts models of this scale!

Finished: Sand Sprinter and Erroish Beast Trainer

 

Another small project finished. I had those two models printed since either October or November last year, but recently I just felt the urge to finally slap some paint on them. The sculpts were created by the talented artists at Print Minis. They create a very wide range of miniatures suitable to use in gothic, sci-fi settings and games such as Space Weirdos, Grimdark Future: Firefight (especially as the Gangs of Eden), Xenos Rampant or, if you want a game from the currently biggest publisher: Necromunda.

The Miniatures

Those two minis come from the Sand Sprinters and Erroish Beast Trainer set. These particular Sprinter is a male, but there is also a female version of the bug available, as well as a version of the trainer kneeling near his companion and gently patting it, suitable for a diorama or an NPC element in a game.

The scuplts printed without issues and the support removal was a breeze. I was a little bit afraid of snapping the fiddly bits on the Sprinter, but all the claws survived  the process, even without using warm water.

The Sprinter's sculpt is quite simple in its design and it yields to speedpaint really well, it was a real joy to paint this particular miniature! The Trainer has a fair number of details, but it is well within the limits of what is fun to paint and it is definitely not overwhelming.

The Scheme

I decided to paint those minis as part of my Ash Waste Nomads tribe. This means that for the Trainer I used the exact same scheme as for the Nomads. The Sprinter is just three paints over a slapchop gradient: Plasmatic Bolt for the carapace, Bony Matter for the legs and soft underbelly and Ratling Grime for mandibles and claws.

Summary

This is a great set and I wholeheartedly recommend buying and printing it to anyone that wants to add to their collection of sci-fi post apocalyptic wastelands denizens!