Forgeworld Keeper of Secrets - Complete

Well after a long weekend of putting this model together i completed it last night around 12 midnight. It is one of the more difficult models i have put together in some time. The tiny pieces that had to be added dont work well for large ape like hands similar to mine. I started painting on it with the new airbrush minataire paints.

The minaitaire paint line is awesome. Whether out of the airbrush or strait out of the pot it works flawlessly. Setting the compressor on about 10 psi i began with base coating a nice gray. Building to a color they call ancient skin (off white). From there i airbrushed on a couple shades of blue followed with what they call ghost ink (similar to a GW glaze but slightly more like a shade in recessed areas. Althought the pictures do no do this justice i spent a lot of time on the bone work and getting the leather on the arms and legs to have a worn loonk with layers of brush applied blacks. It was finally covered in a matt varnish.

Unique things
Custom scenic base built from scratch
Back flesh peeling - I wanted to look as though she had been a little battle damaged so on her back i used a liquid mask and orughed it up to look as though she had been beaten with a whip a few times (CAUSE SHE LIKES IT) and then continued to paint various layers of brusied skin, finaally sealing it at the end.
The object source ligthing is subtle in the pic but alot more visible in real life.

the base took about 2 hours to build
clean up and assembly - 2 hours
Painting  - 18 hours (11 Sunday, 7 last night)

I burnt the midnight oil on this one but this one needed to be on the field this week.