Finshed: Shagrat

 

Today we are graced by the presence of the commander of Cirith Ungol himself. Another model from my still vast backlog of MESBG models and the slowly dwindling backlog of Mordor miniatures.

The Miniature

As, I believe, all the hero models from 20 years ago, it is a metal sculpt. Not overly detailed, but still full of character and evoking memories of his appearance in the movie.

The Scheme

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Noble Skin (Army Painter) for the skin
3. Skeleton Horde (Citadel) for the hair
4. Occultist Cloak (Army Painter) for most of the clothes
5. Gore-grunta Fur (Citadel) for the "tabard" on his chest
6. Black Templar (Citadel) for the belts, straps, boots and gloves
7. Heavy Metal (Army Painter) for the armour and metallic bits on the orc
8. Leadbelcher (Citadel) for Frodo's chainmail that he's holding
9. Voodoo Shade (Army Painter) on his own armour
10. Blue Tone (Army Painter) for the mithril chainmail
11. Stormhost Silver (Citadel) drybrush for the mithril chainmail
12. Base: Dark Earth + Agrax Earthsade + Gorthor Brown drybrush + 2 mm moss from Gamer Grass

Summary

This model was easy and fun to paint. Having both Gorbag and Shagrat enables me to field Cirith Ungol in MESBG. It would be nice to get Shelob at some point and some Mordor Uruk-hai, either from GW or some proxies (for some test games of the list I will probably proxy them with regular Isengard Uruk-hai).