Timmy the Tyrant (Part 1)

 

The Call of the Crown challenge rolls into it's second month. This month I pledge to complete the leader of this mob of hungry ogres, the Tyrant himself. Whom I have nick-named "Timmy" as a kind of goof and I'm thinking that name might stick. Anyway, I am pledging just one model this month due to the Holidays kicking off in a matter of a fortnight, plus other plans that are set to occur during this period. 

He is a big boy though ain't he? He'll probably take about as much paint as half of the Gnoblars unit that I  painted last month. 

Well, you got to start somewhere so I decided to take the "ground up" approach and tackle the base first. Then I just did the rest of the colors in focused blocks. For example the skin was done using Fyreslayer Flesh, the armor and metals were picked out with Black Templar, etc. 

Looking at the images on the kit's box helped figure out what I was painted ting and even informed some of my color choices. However I definitely made some choices that deviated from the box photos quite a bit. For the sake of color contrast I used Volupus Pink on on a lot of the leather straps that appear throughout the piece. 

Another big change was the decision to use Macrage Blue on the big cloak as I went with using Snakebite Leather on his pants. I didn't want the whole model to appear like a walking suit of Snakebite leather so I felt changing up some of these colors would help avoid that result. How this is just a basecoat, I plan to have this blue area be more grey in appearance in the end. 

So this is Timmy the Tyrant at the 'battle ready' stage. But I am not stopping here. As I already said, this is just the basecoats step done. Check back soon for the next stage.