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.