Troll from Skull Pass

A while ago I bought a metal troll, and looked everywhere for a painting guide for it. And although it was a pig to assemble, being a multipart model, it still lays half painted in my todo pile. So when I got another troll in my Skull Pass set, I was more concerned that I would mount and fail to finish this one as well. But over the last few days I've decided to spend a while painting, and have been battling away with my Mordor Orks which now officially qualify as the longest I've taken to paint anything.

But in a break from them I spend a couple of hours painting my new troll, based on a guide on the Skull pass website. Now this guide was a very simple one, just explaining how to basecoat the main colours for the model. All of the guides on that site are like that, I suppose because they don't want to showcase the Eavy Metal guys work to beginners to discourage them. So I followed the guide, basically Catchacan Green and Commando Khaki, but blended the colours up to highlights. And in about three hours tops, with an overnight break to allow the base varnish to dry, I got this model finished. Very satisfying and I'm pleased with it.

I may hunt out my metal cave troll and have a go at that with more greener colours and see how that looks in the end. Right – back to my Mordor Orks. Sigh.

21st Century Dwarf
So I finally got around to opening my White Dwarf 30th Anniversary model. As I suspected it comes in multiple castings - Four plus the base.
One of the castings contains two parts, the shield and the White Dwarfs head. The shield is quite a good piece as it has the hands of both of the dwarves who are holding it built in, with sockets - so that shouldn’t be too bad to glue together. The shield also has a hole that a pin from the White Dwarf's foot so that he can be glued on. That doesn’t look to complex. What worries me is his head and beard, as as usual there is not much of a socket, so this will need to be pinned if possible, but its hard not to drill out of the top of his head if you get the angle right. Not looking forward to that.

The slayer and Bugman, they are both single castings (apart from their hands holding the shield) And they both have slottabase bars. But the base that they supply doesn’t look big enough for them to fit onto this - so that’s a bit strange. I googled a picture of the painted model for a colour scheme, and notice that on the demo model the dwarves are standing on pavement, that reaches out over the base to make them fit. I don’t really want to copy that directly bit I cant really see another way to do this.
So here is a posting! Just to show I've thought about this - however I wont be painting this model any time soon. If I do any miniatures painting it will have to be some of the dwarves that I got in my Skull Pass set.

Ok so it looks like I've not posted for months. You would be correct in that assumption. This is linked to the fact that I've not painted for month. The Real Life is more important at the moment. But the only thing I have done miniature related is taken this picture of my dwarf. I like his eyes.
See You. (Jimmy)