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Troll--I love them bonez!

Started by Mclimbin , Apr 19 2012 04:49 PM

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#1 Mclimbin

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 04:49 PM

Hey all, it's been a long time. Not sure if many of the posters here still remember me... :)

I was really excited by the new Bones line and picked up a Cave Troll as soon as I could. This was fun to paint as this model was one of the first minis that I ever painted. Unfortunately the mini was "lost" in a move and I can't seem to find my old mini photos...they might be lost as well. But you can see the new one!

Hope you like it. I tried to make the pustules as disgusting as possible.

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#2 haldir

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:16 PM

Nicely done on the boils on his back.

Great skintone as well.

Did you use primer or not?

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#3 Adrift

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 07:43 PM

I also enjoyed painting my Bones cave troll! I like you interpretation too. :)

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#4 Metalchaos

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 08:18 PM

Nice one, the boilbs looks pestilent.

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#5 Mclimbin

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:49 PM

Thanks Haldir, Adrift and MC. Nope, no primer. I love the Bones! I missed some mold lines when I was doing prep--as always--but found them when I started painting. I just cut them out and kept going. So awesome.

I found that a hobby knife worked best in dealing with the mold lines. Files didn't work so well, and created a fuzzy burr on the edge of the surface that I filed. X-acto worked much better.

One thing that was different was there was another mold line that went diagonally across the mini, top left to bottom right. It was not as obvious as the usual mold line, but did take a little attention to get rid of it.

I'd trade that for priming any day.

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#6 Baphomet69

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:45 AM

That's a great paint job! And you nailed the boils.

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