Marble Mahut and Maharajh for my sorcerer kings army

First of all I really hope some one sorts out this project system as every time I try to post it freezes crashes then posts duplicates……..

Anyway, I love this game and already have a large nord army (which I’ve documented in another project) and when the sorcerer kings came out and I saw the Mahut I KNEW I had to get them!

I’ve actually painted the rest of it up and I’ll do a separate project for that but I saved this big boy to last as a treat!

After assembling (wrongly, I realized at the end I’d put the cheekbone tassles on the wrong way….) I sprayed black they decided to work on the main body first.

Body: I wanted a marble effect, like it was some kind of golem animated by sorcery.

I sprayed it brown then game air pale flesh then up to white.

To achieve the marbling I mixed retarder medium with airbrush thinner about 1:3 ratio and covered the area I was doing with it. Whilst still at I then went in with thinned game colour ultramarine blue in marble type shapes. This began to thin and spread naturally in the medium but I helped blur it a little with a brush.

After letting it dry I went in again with the blue doing very thin lines following the original shapes and it came out really well, no real method in terms of pattern just being a bit random like marble is.

I did the same method for the people marble but with Xereus pipe as a base then flat white for the marbling.

For the Tusks I used celestra grey as a base then lots of thinned contrast Brown’s in think lines building up texture and darkness as they got closer to the head.

For the NMM gold I used:

English uniform

Sepia wash little bit of purple

Ochre brown

Yellow green

Ice yellow

Ivory

White

I finished it with a purple oil wash where the gold was textured.

I finished it by doing the jewels magenta highlighted by gradually adding ivory then did the eyes and toenails heer black

First of all I really hope some one sorts out this project system as every time I try to post it freezes crashes then posts duplicates……..

Anyway, I love this game and already have a large nord army (which I’ve documented in another project) and when the sorcerer kings came out and I saw the Mahut I KNEW I had to get them!

I’ve actually painted the rest of it up and I’ll do a separate project for that but I saved this big boy to last as a treat!

After assembling (wrongly, I realized at the end I’d put the cheekbone tassles on the wrong way….) I sprayed black they decided to work on the main body first.

Body: I wanted a marble effect, like it was some kind of golem animated by sorcery.

I sprayed it brown then game air pale flesh then up to white.

To achieve the marbling I mixed retarder medium with airbrush thinner about 1:3 ratio and covered the area I was doing with it. Whilst still at I then went in with thinned game colour ultramarine blue in marble type shapes. This began to thin and spread naturally in the medium but I helped blur it a little with a brush.

After letting it dry I went in again with the blue doing very thin lines following the original shapes and it came out really well, no real method in terms of pattern just being a bit random like marble is.

I did the same method for the people marble but with Xereus pipe as a base then flat white for the marbling.

For the Tusks I used celestra grey as a base then lots of thinned contrast Brown’s in think lines building up texture and darkness as they got closer to the head.

For the NMM gold I used:

English uniform

Sepia wash little bit of purple

Ochre brown

Yellow green

Ice yellow

Ivory

White

I finished it with a purple oil wash where the gold was textured.

I finished it by doing the jewels magenta highlighted by gradually adding ivory then did the eyes and toenails heer black