Tuesday 2 September 2014

458 - Nork Deddog...as you've never seen him before!

Wow.

Karitas, over at Excommunicatus Traitoris [link] has made good on his promise to paint up a character figure of my choice, after I won a prize on his blog...and boy, did he do a blinding job on it! I am sooooooo chuffed with this model!

The pics he took speak for themselves...:

It's my conversion of Nork Deddog from a very old Ogryn model that I did years ago (based on that story from the old Codex where Nork salutes with the wrong hand after dragging his officer from a urning Chimera). Here's the parlous state the model was in when I sent it off to Karitas:
I was utterly baffled by how I ought to paint his face, and I ran out of ideas for convincing ways to vary my limited palette, but of course, karitas rescued these things AND added a magnetised 'Cadian 24th' banner as well, as this seemed to be a feature of the original model. What a genius.

I can take no credit for this at all, but please show your appreciation for Karitas's awesome paint job!

- Drax;
grinning broadly.

8 comments:

  1. Very glad he meets with your approval sir. was such good fun to paint all the lovely sharp detail. makes the newer ogryn models look like badly cast children's toys.

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  2. Skin looks really nice. What a cool looking model. Lucky sod. ;)

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    1. Yup: I love how Karitas has managed to paint variety onto what to me was just a broad, flat area.

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  3. Absolutely awesome! Nork has long been my favorite IG character, and that is a fantastic rendition using a great old-school model!

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  4. When this post popped up I thought "oh Drax has modelled himself again" ...Just kidding!!
    Karitas, what a paint job! Far out it is stunning!
    And saluting with the wrong hand is brilliant Drax.

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    1. Oh ha, ha, ha!

      [I wish I were that 'built'!]

      Cheers, Ackland...

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