*There’s always work to be done, but I doubt I’ll go back and really add anything.

Here’s the hauler primed and ready for paint. You can see the mast is already painted, so there’s a close up of this as well. I ended up repainting it blue to match the rest of the ship. The mast would be put in place when the winds are right so the hauler can save on fuel.

The hauler fully painted and weathered. The mast is tied down to the top and repainted blue. The bed of the hauler has all the necessary tools: winch, spare parts, tarps, and wood planks.

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This model below is the troll. I had arbitrarily primed him a red so I went with it. I kind of Garfed him up a bit with an orange on his back and a brighter more yellow orange on his belly. I need to find a way to knock down the reflections in my photos because I did spend time highlighting his back and chest wrinkles/folds and they’re not really showing up. It’s a learning process.

Next up is the Esoteric Hermit. I really like the weathering on his scroll.

Here’s the Wrat. Apparently her left arm is supposed to be pointing upwards and coming out from the far side of her cloak and not pointing down coming from the inside. I still like the way it looks. This looks way better in person. I like that the bright yellow of her hair and bright blue of her cloak fits with the Mork Borg CMYK color scheme.

And finally the Narrator and what i think is a Berserker. I had a lot of fun with these two. Many layers of washes for the pile of skulls. I had a Warhammer bit of the two decapitated heads that I glued to the Beserker’s fist to make it look like he was dragging his prey around. I also like that the Berserker is like an old warrior with a bit of pudge and a receding hair line.

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My goal on these was not to spend too much time on them. The sculpts really are asking to be drybrushed with all of their great textures. So I did a fair amount of that and also a fair amount of washes on top of washes. I think this really helps for things like bone.

I’m trying to get better at photography. For this one I actually got my Canon Rebel out of the closet and set up a light box. I’m working on multiple focuses and then combining them in Photoshop. I think the background is still more in focus than the models so I will try move the models further away from the camera for the next time.

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I added some real sand and seashells and the monkey’s palm tree is from the bits box at the rummage sale. I believe it’s a Warhammer Catachan thing (whatever that is).

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I kept the painting of these fairly simple. There’s so much texture on them, a dry brush goes a long way. On the bird guy I did a lot of dabbing on paint with a sponge to get a cool texture on the leather and bone.

Love this dude. He’s one of four rag devils apparently inspired by Hungarian and English folklore.

The two Hutas draw obvious inspiration from old wooden churches and baba yaga (the minis have little chicken feet).

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I was fiddling with green stuff at the time and decided to sculpt a more organic robot/creature. In my mind this guy is some kind of monster or alien that scrounges on the battlefield for broken and discard parts and forms itself from those pieces. I was definitely inspired by the Japanese movies Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Meatball Machine.

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I knew the legs would be the most annoying thing to have to make from scratch every time, so I planned on making two legs and then molding and casting them. I created the legs using a combination of laser cut acryllic, styrene rods and sheets, acrylic nail beads, and some random Warhammer pauldrons.

Once i was generally happy with the legs, I made a one part cut mold of each. Everything I know I learned about mold making I learned from Robert Tolone on youtube. I even added in some air vents.

I’m not a fan of the resin I used but it’s what I had. Rather than a 50/50 resin to hardener mix, it uses drops of hardener depending on the pour depth. This isnt very helpful for this because I’m not casting a regular shape. The casts came out ok, if not a bit tacky at first.

Once I had some legs cast, I got started on the first robot. Just like the original legs, I used a combination of styrene bits, acrylic nail beads, and other plastic junk. It started looking like a camera because of the gear I used as the cockpit so I leaned into that concept.

I airbrushed the robot a yellow and did various chipping and weathering. I wanted to keep this paint job quick and vibrant. I also added a few small decals from a Sherman thank model kit.

For the second robot, it was a similar process to the first but I added in some MDF scraps and some of my daughter’s acrylic nails I’m constantly finding in the wash. The fake nails gave a nice gently curve to the two spots that I used it.

I airbrushed this one red and followed a similar technique as the previous robot.

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