My 12 years old glasses was finally replaced with a new pair that gave me clear distance vision. Unfortunately it meant I couldn't foucs as well as my old pair when painting. Hence all this was done without glasses.
With the black bit more fluid with some Airbrush Thinner I purchased a while back, I got painting. The first Ghaz's face painted before I add the spike panels around the front. I thought I would obsecure the head, but the angle of the collar armour meant they protuded outwards more than straight up and I made them a little too short. I'm tempted to remove them and make them larger. However I'm trying to hold back from trying to replicate the original down to the smallest detail. So decided to leave it for now...
There's not been much progress this week and my table is a mess with bits left over from the original scraps. I'm at the point where I need to start painting it so I can add the final touches. Although there is still the animal skull that I haven't decided whether to do or not. However this could also wait after I started painting and assembling them. So after this post, I'm hoping to sort these scraps back into my sorted scrap piles and ponder on how to proress the next step.
I've been taking my youngest son swimming and my eyes are full of chlorine making them tired and hard to focus, forcing me to take my glasses off. Although it made things easier, especially while trying to add a nose and ears to my original concept, however once i needed to find something not in front of my nose, I couldnt see. Mixing greenstuff with plastic wasn't easy and I was drilling a hole into a 1.6mm rod with a 0.5 drill bit so I could stuff greenstuff inside to get a more secure hold for my horns. This task was made harder as my Drill bit holder couldn't hold something this thin, so I had to hold the 0.5 drill bit between my fingers. The three balls are intended for the rear of the backpack, one just a ball while two others I tried something different. In hindsight, I should have just waited for it to dry and cut it in half before glueing it onto the round thin plastic. The remaing green stuff was made into a skull, although potentially too small to mount on the of my three Ghaz and looked more like an alien rather than some animal skull.
Hopefully this is the last stretch as I add the last details to these three, although a bit overkill. There's the belt and even the servo on the rear with rods extending out to the legs... although I'm going to struggle to get this right as there are no plans yet to glue the two halves together until I start painting. I don't know why I'm doing the servo as the backpack will likely obsecure it from view. Oh... I forgot, I still got one backpack to go before I need to use greenstuff for the skulls mounted on top of each of these... maybe not quite the last stretch :(
Making slow progress despite having much more time on my hands. Not sure if it's the enthusiasm or difficulty of the pieces needed for the third Ghaz. This version will have a lot of curved pieces and judging by the comments I've seen against the 40K version I've based this on, it's not most liked. It's probably the least Ork like creation once I finished. Can you guess what it will look ike yet?
third seemed tedious. Even though I made my Tau Battlesuits in three's, I think there is too much detail in these. With more time on my hand and the weather looking good, it may be time to start the second part of shoveling slate after completing the first part back in June.
Sometimes it's worth planning ahead, but in the end it worked out just fine with none at all. For once I was patient to let the glue dry and bond so the arms on my firt Ghaz was firm. Trying to make a way to slot the upper body to the legs, I had to carve and remodel the bottom of the body and normally would probably break the arms off at least once or twice. However I wish I stuck the legs a little more out on the side of the claw. At least the first Ghaz fits together loosley enough to check everything works out and not too fiddly glueing together once it was painted. Knowing what to do however helped out on mounting the second one together without worry about the arms. With this one I did have to adjust one feet to angle it more out towards where he was looking at and also make him more stable. The backpack, once again lack of planning as it didn't fit either of them... and I still not worked out a good way to get the rods to bend.
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