morsla | Painting: Great Unclean One

I posted a few early photos of this model here, and it just kept on growing... total size is about 18cm tall, with the nine little Nurglings used to make sure the sense of size/bulk comes across. Plague daemons are fun to paint.

Technically, this is third on my list of pre-Arcanacon painting work. So, of course, I painted it first. Go structured procrastination! (and thanks to shehasathree for the link - I'm glad that other people have noticed the phenomena. I used to call it competitive procrastination, as I lined up tasks and raced them against each other...).

I finished sculpting it on Sunday, and fired it in the oven. Assembled it on Monday afternoon, sat down to paint it last night, and then eight hours mysteriously vanished from my evening. I vaguely remember time passing, as the tendons in my wrist got more painful. Next time, I really ought to take a few more breaks.

It's painted with a mix of Jo Sonja's craft paints; Derivan MiNiS and Vallejo model paints; Reaper and Games Workshop inks, and Vallejo's matte varnish, gloss varnish, and glaze medium. Glaze medium was invaluable on such a large model, as it changes the surface tension of the paint - thin washes could be used to tint the underlying colours without leaving blotches as they dried. I think that I ended up painting with almost everything on my desk.

The milky eye will be repainted in blues instead of lurid green, as it gets lost in the greenish flesh too easily at the moment. Other than that, it's ready for Arcanacon...