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| Giant Gor | |
| Product # | 2367 |
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| Suggested Retail Price | $18.00 USD |
Back to ASSEMBLING AND PAINTING A GIANT GOR
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| 23 September 2003 | page first published |
At this rate, 
Editor in Chief Bill 
will finish this project in time for the release of the next edition!
Hundvig is not a real big fan of pre-painted minis, and he positively despises randomly-packed "collectable" ones - so why is he writing this article?
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Joe Wiedeman of Mini-Dragon writes:
In the last installment, I described painting the Giant Gor's (GG hereafter) fur. In this update I'll talk about how I painted the remainder of the figure: the skin and the face.
I'll start with the skin. First I gave all the skin parts a wash of black ink (mix was 1 drop black ink to 20 drops of water...my black ink is really potent!). This darkened everything up and provided some separation from the fur. As I painted the skin parts, I was careful to always leave at least a thin line of the very dark color between the skin and fur.
After the wash, I mixed a medium gray and painted this onto the high points of the face - the lips, eyebrows, forehead wrinkles, wrinkles near the eyes, knuckles, etc.
Now I mixed a slightly lighter gray and went back over the bits I had just painted. I made sure I left some of the darker color showing.
To finish the skin parts, I watered down some Partha Paints League White (very thin, about 1 part paint to 3 parts water) and painted this very carefully onto the highest points.
Next, I painted the eyes. You can check out an article that I wrote about my method for painting faces on my website. I followed the steps for eyes exactly.
The mouth came next. I really didn't like the bubble gum pink that had been used on the 100 Kingdoms GG. I decided to use darker, more natural coloring. I also decided to make his teeth look more natural, with some yellowing at their bases.
For the tongue I started with Partha Paints Robe Red. I did a very thin highlight coat of Partha Paints Burgundy on the edges of the tongue. Next I added a touch of white to the Burgundy and painted tiny dots (very lightly!) all over the tongue. I finished the tongue by mixing a thin wash of Robe Red (1 part paint to 3 parts water) and applying this to the whole thing.
This method left me with a nicely textured tongue. The wash helps tie all of the colors together and helps ensure that the transitions between colors aren't too stark.
To finish off the mouth, I very carefully painted thinned IWM Black into the recesses between the teeth, and painted lines where the teeth meet the tongue.
