One Giant Leap for the Forces of Evil
After rushing to build Sauron, I decided to pause work on him until my new airbrush arrived. As I wanted to do a Zenithal highlight and I find the spray cans are not fine enough. Now I have seesawed on a decision to buy an airbrush because even a basic kit is about ~£100. And that buys a lot of classic figures!
Anyway with a bit of money from Christmas, I decided the time was right to buy an airbrush. Ended up with a starter set for £97. I had watched a couple of Youtube videos where they had bought a similar one. So once satisfied, the money was spent.
And Sauron was the first time I have used it. I am still working out how to use it but I am quite impressed with the overall effect. I hope that I can move on stepwise from this first go.
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| First go with an airbrush |
One of the main reasons I have been struggling with Zenithal highlights, I am still expecting to end up putting on one coat of opaque paint. So there is not much point doing a zenithal highlight if the paint isn't thinned down enough to let the highlights show through. Now this is very much still a work in-progress but it is interesting to see how the effect turned out. I think He needs a final very light highlight, but mostly finished.
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| A few hours later |
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| Never too many skulls |
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| You shall not pass |
Rob
Pretty imposing! Looking forward to your airbrushing works!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, congratulations for having taken the plunge and grabbed an airbrush: we too have been thinking about it for a long time, but we haven't found the courage (and the money) yet...
ReplyDeleteThe zenithal highlighting works: we tried it with drybrush, but with the airbrush we believe it will be much easier.
Were you inspired by any sources for the green colour of Sauron's robes?
Not a big LotR fan but if i'm right, he never appears in it, and only thing about the dark lord is his hand was a warm as fire and his skin being black as if burnt, Oh and that whole he is a shape-shifter at times but only has 4 fingers (which i guess means 1 thumb and 3 fingers) on one hand due to not being able to regrow the finger that was cut off. which makes sense.. Alot of shapeshifters aren't mass-shifters.. but i know alot of things do their own version which isn't the same a Tolkien's version..
DeleteThe green colour was a straight copy from Citadel example on their website. I think it looks really good and I couldn't think of better alternative.
DeleteI really like this figure - a great pose! And with all the folds in the fabric a great first project for the airbrush!
ReplyDeleteAh! I just figured it out.. the helmet isn't as good but the design for Sauron is Charn! from the old TV kids learning show 'Through the Dragon's Eye'.. that was a great fantasy show.. and that design is soo taken from Charn.. just not quit as good (doesn't have the boney skull helmet).. ah.. now I can rest and people say about how scary Charn was.. (played by the late great David Collings)
ReplyDeleteThe show is a new one on me as it was a bit after my school days. But I can definitely see a link between Charn and Sauron. Interesting to see these ideas.
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