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.

433 - Old Skool Nork Deddog and Centaur W-i-P Teasers

UPDATE! [22/04/14] I've now added some slightly higher quality pics, having found the camera again. Please find them appended to my original post, below...

I've lost the camera, but I thought I'd share what's on the desk at the moment (besides my beret stormies, of course [link]). Sorry for the painfully poor quality pics.

First up, I've dug out my old, old Nork Deddog conversion. Ignoring the old base paintwork, that head is terrible, but I like the model:

And secondly, here's the first of my two centaurs (again, very much W-i-P) artillery tractors for a brace of arty pieces sent by Zzzzzz. It looks far better in the flesh, trust me!

Cat's backside free with orders over £65 from GW's website.

The details inside are fun to paint...

- Drax.

New pics: [And yes, I know the colours clash. What of it?!]