Over Christmas and the New Year I finally finished up painting my Glottkin from Games Workshop. This was not really a fun project though. It was more a labour of stubbornness. I really don't like to have half finished projects, especially after I had spent £65 on the model. I bought the model in October 2014 when it was released with the End Times book. I put the model together for a big 8th Edition game that I organised at Warhmmer World that Christmas and I had airbrushed on all the initial green for the base. After that, however, the model just sat on the shelf for about 10 months...
With the release go Age of Sigmar I have been playing my Slaanesh Warriors quite considerably and I decided that I should be able to get the model finished and ready for the Bad Dice Podcast Blood and Glory event. So with a spark of motivation I got started again. In the end I managed to get Ghurk fully finished. He really is a beast to paint with all the boils and wounds. It gave me a great excuse to try out Blood for the Blood God and the Nurgles Rot paint from the GW technical range. These are great paints. I found that I got results that I liked by painting things in very light colours and then painting these over the top so they gave a shiny, slimy look but retaining some of the highlighting and shading underneath. I also found that the Nurgles Rot in particular works well if you mix the cases in to get darker tones.
However, despite getting Ghurk finished I ended up just base coating and washing Otto and Ethrac. And then the next spanner in the works happened.... Games Workshop released Archaon! I knew if I started this guy I wouldn't get round to finishing the remaining two characters so I started battling my way through them. I started working on Otto who is very similar to the Nurgle Chaos Lord which was great model to paint. This was notable for a fun exercise in painting a mottled, pale skin. I wanted to keep him as pale as possible to contrast and stand out from Ghurks darker green. The dark green shoulder pads help to pull the model together.
Ethrac originally had a dirty yellow tabard and cloak, but this looked ridiculous so I ended up base coating whole thing in dark purples. I am much happier with this as the purple compliments the green and also allows the pale skin to stand out. On Ethrac I used the pale green for the skin again but also used a paler version for the growths and extra arm. This was done with Rakarth flesh and washed with Athenian Camoshade. Again it was the details at the ned that I got fed up - things like the staff and brazier really didn't receive the attention they deserved.
Overall I didn't enjoy this model and there are a number of things I am not happy with - the number of mood lines I didn't fill properly, the highlighting on the horns, the base (which just looks too thin), and the fact that every time I picked up the Glottkin he just didn't inspire me. However I do think that overall he fits well in my army and I am pleased I was able to battle through and finish it despite all the other things I'd rather have been doing!
