Sprue Whispering

Almost done. Not much left except for cleaning up the cloak. Hopefully will be finished soon.

Progress on Ulrik. He's almost finished. Just have to finish his pistol arm, eyes, gold on the banner pole, handle on the Crozius and final blending on the cloak, near to the fur. Hopefully finish this one by the next article.

Progess continues on Ulrik. More to come.

A few years ago, Games Workshop came out with the Stormclaw boxed expansion set, featuring the Space Wolves of the Drake Slayers and an Ork horde.  As part of this Krom Dragongaze was the first character figure produced by Games Workshop in many years. I picked one up at the time, but never got around to painting him. Given all my recent activity painting the Wolves, I thought it was probably high time to dust off the grey plastic and slap a coat or two of paint down. The usual recipe. Vallejo Dark Grey Polyurethane primer, Vallejo Game Air Sombre Grey base. Following this, I layered in Vallejo Game Color Wolf Grey, followed by an extreme edge highlight of Vallejo Game Color Ghost Grey. Time to dig into the detailing.

Progress on Ulrik continues. Starting with grey Vallejo Grey Polyurethane Primer, then Vallejo Model Air German Dark Grey, shade washed with Blacklining wash. The black of the armor is complete, basics of the gold shaded and just needs highlighting, fur skins blocked in. I even got time to work on the cloak. This time I used the airbrush for more subtle highlights. Still more to be done, but the finish line is getting closer.

I was recently listening to the Imperial Truth , a Horus Heresy Podcast, when Greg Dann mentioned a conversion Darren "Razza" Latham did of the new Ulrik the Slayer model.  So I got very interested when Greg described how easy the conversion was and went trawling to find out how Darren's conversion turned out. Luckily Darren had posted pictures on his Twitter feed, so I grabbed a copy of it. Below is Darren's conversion:  And this is the original miniature from Games Workshop. Looking at this I am thinking I will kit bash my own version, with Ulrik actually holding a plasma pistol. Keep an eye out for how this goes.