WFB Hobby: Forgeworld Siege Giant
I find painting quite soothing and relaxing and quite often spend my evenings after I put the kids to bed procratinating doing dishes or laundry sitting at our painting desk with one project or another in hand. One of my recent projects was the Foreworld Chaos Seige Giant.
It is pretty much the same plastic giant kit you can buy at your local hobby store with a resin torso and a spattering of resin pieces in the kit. It is that resin pieces that make all the different between the normal giant you see and the seige giant.
When I painted it I decided to go with an ogre skin grey tone and make the clothes bright. Presumably from the patchwork pants the giant haas gathered anything the could to make pants so you see different colors of material. There are a few shields as well. Other than some rust on the armor the model was painted clean.
Painting this model was relatively easy, lots of open spots, lots of detail and I took the time to practice some of the things I learned at Masterclass painting with Mathieu Fontaine a few years ago now that I really hadn’t had cause to use on my Bretonnians. I did paint him in pieces as well, leaving the loincloth, shields, shoulderpads, chin guards and the scyths seperate and then attached them once all the painting was done. I found this to be a good option as all of the pieces fit together quite nicely once done.
The only complaint was that the resin for the scythes on the right arm were twisted quite badly and we had to attempt to straighten them.
He was used at his first tournament when my husband brought his Warriors to Wet Coast GT 2013 this summer and looked great on the table paired next to the rest of his army.
More pictures of this guy and my other projects are making their way onto my hobby blog, you can see more there.
