Step Forward Big Fella!!

The Thanatar is finally done (we knew that already) and I've finally got some proper pictures taken. Lots of pictures. Lots n lots.......you get the idea ;)

Really really happy how he's turned out so here's the man himself. Hope y'like him :)

C&C as always welcome

Cheers
 Jan

Thanatar Siege Automata

Thanatar Siege Automata

Thanatar Siege Automata

All in the details....

The Thanatar Siege Automata Delta-7 is finally finished. Didnt take as long as the Imp. Knight but still was no quick job! Really happy with the big fella. Tried out a few new techniques and such with him and everything seems to have paid off. I won't be getting any proper photos taken for a few days yet. So here's a wee teaser of some (badly taken on the iPad) photos of some of his details.

Thanatar Siege Automata Delta-7

C&C always welcome


Cheers
 Jan

Where Are We Now?!

Right - that's what was, now what is....kinda. The buying freeze has had some sucess but far from total! Have picked up a few things in the interim. Got some more of the Mortician's Guild from Steamforged as they are simply awesome - got the Starter Box'Obulus, Cosset and Graves and also the big fella Casket and their mascot Dirge. So they're sitting waiting with Ghast and Silence in the cabinet now.

Also totally caved and picked up a copy of this beauty. When I'm actually going to get them all painted (it's like 50 highly detailed stunning figs in there) well......it'll happen.....IT WILL!!

And last of all (apart from backing Rum'N'Bones - Second Tide on Kickstarter that is) I got myself a Solar Auxilia Dracosan Armoured Transport. No, I'm not going to start collecting a SA force (though they are gorgeous) but the Dracosan really has an old AdMech look to it so am going to convert it over to being a reclaimed tank now being used as a transport for my Dust Dogs Skitarii Rangers squad. I've made a start on this one at least. And have converted the top gunner into a skitarii and replaced the multilaser/flamer option with a twinlinked lascannon from the Ironstrider kit.
The cast is for the most part well done but there was a little mould slip and a few other things that need to be filed and fixed. It's pretty much ready for the build now so hopefully get that done over the weekend. Hopefully

Reclaimed Dracosan Skitarii Gunner

 So what have I been painting? 'Eavier Metal over on Facebook is doing another one of their comps and it's a big one - 'Eadbanger II. The amount of figs they've got from sponsors is astounding!! So I fugured I'd give it a bash this year. So far am entering in three categories - Unit/Warband; which I'm putting 'The Ashen' in for. Need to reshoot some photos for them though. Single figure- Showcase; I'll enter 'The Nurse' for that. I've got her prepped, built and primed but really need to get a move on and start painting her soon.

'The Nurse'

 Which leads up to Armour. For this am doing one of Forgeworld's Thanatar Siege Automata. Glorious beast of a model he is. Been trying out a whole pile of new techniques and stuff with him and, touch wood, it's all gone great so far. He has been hogging the paint recently though. He's getting towards final stages now though so should have him finished soon. Am really happy with how it's been going thus far. Few WiPs for you to finish up this post then

Thanatar WiP

Thanatar WiP

Thanatar WiP

Well there we go, all caught up. C&Cs always welcome and paint till ya drop :)

Cheers

Jan


*Edit*   Shit - totally forgot but remembered again. My Harlequin Solitaire was featured on the Games Workshop website. Very very chuffed :D Here's a screenshot

Where were we now?

Yes, I suck at blogging. I keep meaning to update more often but......I suck. There it is.
Anyways - still working on my huge list of unpainted stuff (which after Mymearan put up a thread getting folk to count their unpainted minis over on Dakka, seems to be nowhere near as long as some folk out there) and still trying (and failing) to not buy any new stuff in the interim.
So - quick catchup. What have I actually got done since......crap...March?!!!!

Vox Divina ServoSkull

Tech Priest Enginseer Dendris

'The Ashen'- Sicarian Ruststalkers

'The Ashen'- Sicarian Ruststalkers

'The Ashen'- Sicarian Ruststalkers

'The Ashen'- Sicarian Ruststalkers

Space Hulk - Terminator Brother Goriel

Ok - that's what I got finished. Looks less than I thought......o.O dammit!!

Back to Life, Back to ......a Backlog o.O

Back to Korea, back to work, back to......painting :D and back to being behind on updating this blog - so everything is back to the usual then.
After getting back from Ireland I had about 10 days of Feb left and a load of stuff to get done. Once I got back I decided I really needed to take stick and list out all the stuff I have waiting for paint and staring furiously at me from the shelf and cabinet. Here is said 'list of shame' (incl the stuff I bought while I was on hols)


On the bench:

V̶o̶x̶h̶a̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶o̶ ̶S̶k̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶(̶T̶B̶B̶)̶ ̶ Done
Yeld Rig Hive Spyer (primed)
T̶a̶n̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶D̶i̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶,̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶d̶)̶ ̶ Done
F̶e̶m̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶s̶a̶r̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶(̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
Harlie Shadowseer (boxed)
Harlie Troupers (2) (basecoated and shading)
V̶r̶o̶s̶h̶ ̶T̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶ ̶S̶g̶t̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
Librarian Turmiel (highlights, detailing, base)
Kranon the Relentless (primed)
Gaunt's Ghosts (5) (boxed)
Ruststalkers (5) (primed)
Skit Rangers (10) (primed)
Tech Priest (boxed)
Inquistor (boxed)
Psyker (boxed)
Swordbearer (boxed)
Herald (boxed)

In The Cabinet:

The Nurse (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Ghast' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Silence' (boxed)
Possesssed CSM (5) (boxed)
Thanatar Automata (boxed)
CSM Sorcerer Lord (boxed)
Chaos Familiar (boxed)
Callidus Assassin (boxed)
Vindicare Assassin (boxed)
Eversor Assassin (boxed)
Culuxus Assassin (boxed)
Chaos Cultists with autoguns (10) boxed)
Space Hulk Terminators (12) (boxed)
Space Hulk Genestalers (18) (boxed)
Doors (20) (boxed)
Eldar Wave Serpent (boxed)


Oh God - there's a lot! Nowhere near as much as some foilk I know but still.......How does this stuff accumulate so sneakily!!! Bugger! So - no more buying until I've got this lot shifted.....at leas the majority of it. Thanks to Az's monthly targeting thread over on Dakka, it's become easier to set and see monthly goals of what I want to get completed.
I didnt have much time when I got back so Feb's goals were quite small but as 3 of them were 'commissions' for other folk, they were on top of the list.


First up was BC's 2 figs. One, 'Gaunt's Ghosts' lasman. I'd talked to BC about this and said I wanted to 1) make him a sniper and 2) was going to make a little vignette for him of the farmhouse on Aexe Cardinal from the book 'Straight Silver'. This was all built and ready for paint before I left for Ireland so just needed paint once back. I have loved designing, building and painting this from start to finish and am absolutely thrilled with the finsihed work. Was also pretty gutted to have to parcel it up and send it off to its rightful owner. So I made sure to photo the shit out of him before sending him off. So happy with this guy :) The ruined farmhouse is totally scratch built and the vines ggrowing up the outside are actually the roots of one of my (dead) tomato plants dried out! Damn happy :D I will eventually be doing little vignettes for the 5 Gaunt's Ghosts figs that BC gave me.

Tanith Sniper - Farmhouse Siege: Aexe Cardinal

Second fig for the same peson was a female Commissar fig that they wanted done in naval colours than the usual black-coated Comms. So I went for one of my fav colours, which I usually use as the secondary colour in my AdMech scheme. Think she came out rather well. Not the most handsome of sculpts but a pretty important piece for the owner.

Naval Commissar

With those two taken care of, it was on to finishing up the other 'commission' from the 'I paint your mini' thread over on Dakka. This one is an Infinity fig and was my first time painting anything from Corvus Belli and will possibly (but probably not) be the last time I bother with anything from that company until they sort out their casting/boxed product process. It's 28mm but feels more like 28mmicro. They cast in metal rather than resin or plastic and usually (see the above Ghost) painting a bit of metal again is quite fun. Metal does have a lovely weighty feel to it. This Infinity cast tho was an utter pain in the nuts. The joins/fits between parts are not slotted particularly well so the joins are going to be weaker than if they had bother to use proper peg and slots. As its such a slight slender fig, pinning is nigh on impossible. The vents were in a few places very hard to differenciate from the actual sculpt. This Chimera fig is a very nice miniature but their casting and how you get the fig really looks so amateurish, especially from what is supposed to be a big game and minitures company. A quick and simple comparision show you what I mean. As a comparison fig, I used the Ghast fig I got in Ireland by Steamforged Games. Both are totally fresh out of the box - no clean up or trimming done on either.

Infinity - Chimera

Mortician's Guild - 'Ghast'

Big fething difference. Anyhow - Finally got her painted up. Tried out using glazing a lot more with her as she is so small and delicate and so is a lot of her detail. Anything more than just glazes would be in danger of obscuring some of her finer detail. And finished piece........

Infinity - 'Chimera'

Overall, I'm very happy with how she came out. Her scheme was semi-worked out before I started but did change and adapt somewhat as I went along, especially the metals.


So, with those done - time to get some of my own stuff done. I had and still have I suppose, a couple of figs on my bench that I started but never got around to finishing. So was defintely time to get a lest some of them all finished up.


A little bit of kitbashing/scratch building and the 'Vox Divina' servo skull was born! Simple enough paintjob and I had my entry for Para's Feb painting comp over on Dakka

Next up was the first of the Blood Angels' terminators from the Space Hulk box - Sgt. Lorenzo.

Space Hulk - Sgt. Lorenzo, Blood Angels Terminator

Space Hulk - Sgt. Lorenzo, Blood Angels Terminator

Space Hulk - Sgt. Lorenzo, Blood Angels Terminator

Space Hulk - Sgt. Lorenzo, Blood Angels Terminator

His pauldrons are obv more Flesh Tearers than Blood Angels because........reasons! Actually I went with the black pauldrons and a darker richer red for the armour to try and break up the usual BA scheme whcih tbh I really find quite boring. I cut off the weird moulded stand/base that the Space Hulk figs come on and rebased him on one of the bases I ordered for Fenris Games in the UK. Big improvement I think.

Finally (god this is a long post already) I got Vrosh Tattersoul completed. He's been sitting there 90% finished for months, so he's finally done and joined up with the other Chosen in the cabinet

Dark Vengenace - Vrosh Tattersoul

And that bascially was February hobbywise. On a final note of what is already a seriously TL:DR post, I gonna 'quickly' talk about a gorgeous new release.


Now, after failing pathetically in Ireland to stick to my buying freeze of figs .....I'm renewed on that mark and totally committed to a renewed buy freeze until I clear my backlog...........and then what does GW do.......they release bloody Deathwatch:Overkill......you utter shitlords!!!! If you havent seen/heard of GW's latest boxed set/board gmae release....crawl the fuck out from under that rock and have a look. They have finaly decided to redo/rerelease/reincarnate/re-whatever the genestealer cult from way back when and damn but they have seriously not held back on it. No half-assed meh sculpts here. They have brought a fething rocketlauncher to a knife fight on this one.

Sculpts are stunning and the game itself look really quite playable. No major gripes from me....one or two possible niggles though. There doesnt seem to be any sort of facing/LoS rules for shooting. On the game board's tiles there are no real hard blind corners or doorways for cover but you do seem to be able to shoot targets directly behind you and striaght through other figs without any sort of penalty. That I really don't like. Houserule #1 is def gonna be made to cut that nonsense out.


The art is glorious overall except for the Deathwatch stat cards. Some genius decided to use the same paictures of the different DW marines from the short stories which are quite possibly the shittiest, ugliest most bollox pieces of art GW have ever used (ok ok....enjoy a touch of hyperbole here) - not onlky are they ghastly but they really don't gel with the style and aesthetic of the rest of the artwork. This however is just my opinion and I'm sure there are folk out there who do really like the portraits.


So niggle #2 is purely subjective and niggle #3 is even more petty!! That fething Space Wolf. Now it's no real secret that I absolutely bloody detest the SWs. Space Marines are cracking. Vikings are awesome too. Space Wolves are not. They're twats. I don't like their fluff, their chartacters, their aesthetic and they totally get on my tits. Having one in the Deathwatch - totally fine with that. Makes no sense to have one of the most prolific chapters NOT contributing. However (if you've also read the short story about) Drenn Redballs is an ever bigger twat than usual. From the first page he comes across and a seriously unlikeable wanker. A complete twat. The scuptors have done a fine job if showing his arseholish character with that bollox mohawk they've given him on the fig. Fluff character being an arse or not - I really don't like that horse-wank of a hairpiece they've given him. I doubt I'll keep it when I 'eventually' pick up a copy of the box. I'll probaly either replace his head with a p̶u̶m̶p̶k̶i̶n̶  a Mk VII helm or if I find one cheaply, one of the SW wolf helms - we'll see. Having ol Redballs wearing a helm though does go directly against the fluff as it says he refuses to wear one......but as the fluff character is a complete arsetard......I'm quite happy to break fluff this time. Again folks, don't take my anti-SW ranting too seriously (read: at all) - I just really can't stand them - I'm sure there are some nice SWs out there (n̶o̶,̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶n̶'̶t̶;̶ ̶a̶r̶s̶e̶h̶o̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶!̶!̶!̶ ) Anyways - those 2 petty niggles and that one LoS rule worry aside......this could very well be one of GWs best boxed games releases at least since Space Hulk. Is it better than BaC?......hmmm - I'm not really in any position to say. BaC doesn't really appeal to me as it's 30K and I've really got no interest in starting 30K. I would say on a sculpt level, the DW:O are better and more detailed. Gamewise......as I say, I can't really comment. Anyhow...that's your lot for today folks. Sorry for the length but I'm a bit behind the now and that.


Till again - take it easy, C&C always welcome and if you're not licking your brush, you're not loving your brush  ;)

New Year's Resolution My Arse!!

Back home in Ireland at the mo so no hobbying. So nice being home but of course just can't leave hobby well enough alone lol. Anywho - I had made a list of resolutions at the new year for hobby, the first of which being that I wasn't going to buy any more figs until I'd cleared all the stuff I already have, which to be fair is not nearly as much as a lot of folk - no plascrack hoarding in my house!! There were to be 2 exceptions - a box of ruststalkers for my AdMech and FW's new primarch release - Corax. Decided not to get Corax yet and as I'm starting to branch out and do some other stuff besides GW/FW my mind turned back to 'The Asylum'. (You check it out here - http://www.edouardguitonasylum.com/) There was an awesome KS by Thirdman Studios to get a group of 54mm boutique figs released and they are/were gorgeous. Sadly, said KS failed to get funded. The sculpts are gorgeous and come from the twisted mind of Edouard Guiton and were sculpted by Alexandre Aragon Marks. The model that orginally really caught my eye was 'The Nurse', painted by the super talented Martin Grandbarbe. 

So different to what I usually do but totally fell in love with it and was so dissappointed that the KS failed. They did do a limited (300) release of her before the KS but when I looked - all sold out. Then I heard that there were still some available over on CMON. Sweet! LLS, ordered myself one up the other night - $40...seriously though for a beautiful (and from what I've read from folk who got them the cast is near perfect) 54mm boutique....thank you very kamsa :D So that's in the post. Seriously need to up my skin painting game though before I take that on. Study study time.

Now that would have been all well and dandy if I hadn't gone up to Dublin shopping for some GS today...........needless to say - Resolution #1 is out the proverbial window!!

LMAO

Get Weathered

Ok there folks - I do have some new stuff to post, namely I finally finished the Magos' Scyllax bodyguards and built a wee dio for them all to reside in. However, that is going to have to wait as I am actually back in Ireland at the mo (since yesterday) for 2 weeks and I forgot to bring my portable harddrive with me which of course has all my modeling photos - doh!! I put them up anyways once I get back to Korea. 2 weeks without painting or hobbying.......this could be .....difficult!

Anyways - weathering. This post is really not about me or my stuff at all. 'Weathering', just to use it as a general catch all term is something that most painters will use to a greater or lesser degree and with greater or lesser successes. It certainly is a matter of taste as well. Some artists like to go for the full on, uber realistic, gritty, battlefield torn weathering (more towards what I prefer) with mud, rust, corrosion, flaked and ripped metals, grunge, damage and so on, while some prefer the very clean, factory fresh look for their models (not really my thing) but will still want to add a little dust and/or a few minor scratches to the finished piece and many lie somewhere inbetween with their tastes.

Minus' Weathered Barrels

Wherever and whatever floats your own personal Abeyant - weathering is a big thing in this hobby. As I just got back into hobby about a year ago after 10 or 11 years away, I had (and still have) a lot of catching up to do!! And weathering was one of my first....concerns I guess you could call it. I like the weathered finish. I like my figs to have that real look. They are essentially (toy) soldiers of war after all, I want that fluff and background to be represented in the final model. I hit up YouTube initially as there are sooooooo many tutorials there on this very topic. Some are great, some are utter shite, some are quick and easy (with a vast range of final looks) some much longer and more involved. My initial take was - holy shit there is a lot of stuff I need to buy for this. And there are so many different specialist 'weathering' products out there from different companies to get these different effects. Living in South Korea, a huge amount of this is not available to me, even with overseas Internet shopping due to customs regulations, p&p costs and whatnot. Paints and the like are generally (at least by the Korean customs) are classed as chemicals and yes technically they are but that can greatly affect what I can easily or not have sent to me out there. And tbh, I didn't really want to have to buy a enormous amount of extra stuff just for weathering, so I found my own ways. Dakka and the folk there were also a great help for learning new techniques, tips, methods, do's and do not's and so on. And at some point I will probably write down something about my own ways of doing things but not now!!

One of the things I did want for weathering was not having to use an enormous pile of dedicated and specific products. I wanted to be able to do as much as possible from the out with the regular paints that I could get and use for the main painting portion of a product and for me that means GW paints, which I happen to really like and enjoy. I found out that I also have access to all the Tamiya line and some of the Humerol stuff too if I need it in SK. Again, I will cover my own stuff at a later date.
On Dakka I was able to find a lot of really great artists producing effects that I both liked and wanted to learn about and that was invaluably helpful as, for the most part, the painters there are always more than willing and eager to pass on their own knowledge and expertise when asked. That is one of my favourite things about dakka - the painting community and its availability and openness to share the wealth so to speak. One of my favourite artists there is a French guy by the name of 'Minus'. He posts pretty regularly there as well as having his own offsite blog '50 Nuances de Violet;' (50 shades of Purple) - the link to which should be over on the right somewhere in the list of links.  Minus' stuff is top notch. He does a lot of stuff for a game called 'Eden' iirc, a french skirmish game. Minus manages to blend bright popping colours with a great grungy look. Something that is really difficult to do. Trust me I know. I can do bright schemes (ie my Harlequins) or grungy and dark (ie my AdMech stuff) but being able to blend two such approaches together and not have it look like the proverbial dog threw up after eating a box of crayons....is a real talent! Anyways - one of Minus' top skills is in his weathering - from figs, to vehicles to scenery he does some lovely work is always ready to share his methods- trust me I've asked! He's just posted an excellent tutorial over on his blog about how he does it; the above barrels being the test subject for it. It's a definite 'must check-out' for anyone interested in upping their weathering game. One of the things to immediately notice is the amount of different types of materials he uses. It's limited - no need to totally go overboard and buy every type of 'weathering product' out there. Amazing effects CAN totally be achieved with a small, well thought out and correct number of products. He uses just 3 - normal acrylic fig paints, masking fluid and one effect paint. Anyway - I'm tired, grumpy and still aching from travelling so I'm gonna bugger off. Go now and check out this tutorial and learn some awesome new stuff. Laters painters and here's the link  :D

Minus' Weathering Techniques

Enter The Magos II

Well, here he is. Arch-Magos Cybernetica Braetalan'Kot. Finally got the paint finished up last week and some photos snapped over the weekend Thrilled with how he turned out. Not much else to say as now he needs his retinue. First up am working on his bodyguards - a Scyllax Automata Covenant known as The Arachnae. FW models and should fit in nicely aesthetically with the Arch-Magos. I enjoyed building him so much, I'm gonna build a few lesser models to fit in as his extended retine. Servitor or two and a few wee others.

Just a few photos eh ;) Hope you like him and cheers for looking in. C&C as ever more than welcome

Cheers

Stephen/'Jan'

Magos' Progression

Last few days have been great for getting stuck into hobby. Gotta love the winter hols! Really buzzing with this Magos.

Something really satisfying about building your own unique fig, seeeing it really come together and then coming to life as the paint starts to go down. Been a fantastic start to the new year! I've got most of the metalwork done now and have been painting kinda from the inside out. The mechandrites really had to be tackled first as they get in the way of everything and as you can see, painting the meant getting metallics on just about all of the Magos' robes so I've had to leave them to last. I wanted his face to be quite recessed within the hood to give a darker and more ominous/sinister look and character to the figure as well ala a lot of John Blanche's visions of the Mechanicus so natually that also needed to be totally painted and finished before the outer robes.
I've stuck to the livery of his Achlys III forgeworld  and the methods/techniques I used on the other members of the forge I've alreasy finished - kats, dragoon, Dominus etc. However, with the Magos, I wanted to step it up a bit so to make him stand out both as being of a higher order and also much older and more senior to the rest of the collected force, even the Dominus techpriest. I needed something the rest wouldn't have. So I settled on his chestplates as been of a more archaic and rare nature. With the rest I use brass as a trim to thier weapons and armour and don't really use any golds. Here I wanted something brassy but a bit more goldy.....So I've gone with what his chestplates and cog axe now are. Comes out as a nice old, tarnished gold effect but still sits will with the ages metals of the mechandrites and the few brass trims. Very happy with how the effect came out and was very easy to achieve. Anyways - this is where we're at the now. Thrilled with how he's coming out.

AdMech Arch-Magos

I've always really like the fluff and aesthetic for the Adeptus Mechanicus/Mechanicum that GW has produced and the work of John Blanche that so often goes hand in hand with it. The FW Mechanicum models (you'll be seeing a fair bit of them coming up in the next few months here) and now the recent GW AdMech releases are all top notch and great stuff to build and paint. Their TechPriest Dominus is probably my favourite character release of 2015. However, for the Arch-Magos, I really wanted something unique and a model that would stand above and beyond the assembled forces. No two Magi are the same and are very much their own creations as they gradually augment and replace their biological parts as they rise up through the ranks and heirarchies down the centuries - becoming more and more mechanical and more and more aloof and even isolated from their peers as they get closer to their god.
And so I looked for inspiration for my Magos and found it from one of the best kitbashers out there - krautscientist and his 'Legion' model. If you haven't checked out his work yet, then do it. He doe some really amazing and inspiring work especially in the realms of the CSM, Inquisition and of course the AdMech. The 'Legion' model uses a WHFB cairn wraith from the hunched robed look so usually associated with the Mechanicum and it works perfectly. As I say, if you haven't seen his work before - go and check it out and be inspired! The 'Legion' model can be found here https://eternalhunt.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/meanwhile-aboard-the-arrke/  but have a look around the whole site.
Anyways - enough from me, time to get back to the brushes!

Cheers for stopping in and all the best for 2016

Jan

Enter The Magos

2016 is here and it's time to get some hobby done. Been working on a kitbash/sculpt for an Atch Magos over the last few weeks but with Christmas and that, time has been a bit short. However, finally got the big fella finished....well the build anyways!! Greenstuff parts went on fairly smoothly - those cable rollers are bloody handy! The axe haft was a bit of a pain to imprint a texure pattern on but worked in the end. Pretty happy with the result; bits from about 7 different kits/models went into him. Have a wee guess and see if you can get which ones.
Anyways - here he is - Arch-Magos Braetalan'Kot of Achyls III. Cheers for looking. Paint will be going on as soon as!

AdMech Arch-Magos Braetalan'Kot