ANZACS and the return of 'Them', ( & Cthulu Kong, Goldylocks etc!))

Now I will upfront apologise for not being able to describe the painting of the figure part of this model as:

I had brought this on Impulse, as had Kevin and Jo from our group on seeing  it on the Friday at Games Expo. As usual we held off buying straight away, and having forgot where the stand was , Kevin brought them on  the Sunday from.

https://xwcminiatures.com/pages/miniatures.

I had no idea at the time what I was going g to use it for, but knew I would eventually.  Any way it was ideal for Black Sun, and has sat by the side of hobby table since the end of August

( having been built as I kept knocking it on floor , and having  to find the bits!)

I had a paint scheme in mind based on;

So I tried various Speed and Contrast paints , with lighter drybrushing, but couldn’t get it right. In between it would sit on side table whilst I thought about it again.

Eventually I tried a white light dry brush and it worked and I had base colour. But I didn’t want wings to be same colour, as it would be too green. I had originally thought about doing whole model Blue but decided against it goong  would work for just the  wings going provisionally matching a  light fading night sky.  Again  I had the  same problem and it didn’t look right till you guessed it, light white dry brush.

Afterwards it was a little experimenting with the boney bits claws etc  but figure was finished.

Then how to base it. I originally was going to be clichéd and put it standing over a mountain of skulls but Kevin pointed out that would scale it, and I wanted it for multiple games. So base was painted black and it sat at side of hobby table fo a few more weeks.

Anyway I looked at it and thought about it’s name StarSpawn  and looking at black base thought Space (the f…..you know the rest)

So paint a star spotted base, but would it look odd on a Vietnam Jungle, then thought,  how if its crossing from the void into our reality across dimensions!

So using a bit of textured paint, did a roughly semi circle for a blazing sun with a firey corona ( I slipped with brush putting down textured paint) and then did a roughly linear strip of textured paint for the Jungle for our dimension with a white line for the crossover. Both the Sun and Jungle painted with appropriate speed paints.

I had wanted to convey it shattering the barrier between dimensions,  but how to do it, till I found some old orange clear plastic card.. which shattered appropriately when being cut and voila!

For Varnishing I generally went for AK’s ultra Matt, but used gloss on Sun tentacles and edge of claws. I did a light dry brush of gloss over all to give model a slight sheen.