writes:Painting finished!
The leather areas were painted over a GW Snakebite Leather base (one of my favourite paints, and one that I just couldn't be without). The metal areas are GW metallics over Vallejo Game Color Charred Brown and/or Snakebite Leather. The grey hammerhead is GW Boltgun Metal mixed with dark grey, and washed with GW Badab Black. The small highlights of red - the hair braiding and the jewels in the hammer - are GW Scab Red, mixed with GW Blood Red and highlighted with Blood Red, again one of my favourite colour combinations and a blend that I have only recently started using.
I am particularly pleased with the sun-tanned flesh and bleached-blonde hair colours, which were inspired by a painting of Thor that I Googled on the 'net. The blonde hair colour was inspired by, but not slavishly copied from, a very good article in the Privateer Press magazine No Quarter (issue no. 23, page 32).
Gloss varnished - I have used Ronseal Ultra Tough Hardglaze polyurethane varnish.
Matt varnished - a custom mix of Galeria Acrylic Matt Varnish from Winsor & Newton and Tamiya Flat Base X-21, with Klear (Future in the U.S.) brush-painted over the metallic and jewel areas.
Once the varnish was dry, I added some ground-up foam - first mixing it with some PVA glue, distilled water, and flow improver.
Small clumps of static grass were added to decorate the base.
Finished!
