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Oldblood on Carnosaur
This was my other entry at Toronto GD. 87 hours of work and the model I am most proud of so far. (although there are LOTS of errors on it with the sculpting, and some errors with the Verdigris I tried to add to the banner, and mold lines I missed :( ) Sadly, It didn't make first cut, but oh well. I needed a carnosaur for my lizardmen army anyways :) The colour scheme is based on the Australian Thorny Devil lizard. The carnosaur was cut up and to reposition it I had to resculpt the neck, part of belly and a bit of the tail. ALso, the legs had to be bulked up a bit more. I then added extra armour to the side of the neck and the 2 extra horns on the armour and the head spike. The rider is the body of the oldblood on foot, cut up and added to kroq-gar's legs on the carnosaur. The head is also from the oldblood on foot. I wanted this oldblood/carnosaur to be unique from my other one, which will be done like Kroq-Gar himself or compared to other carnosaurs people have. His shield is from saurus sprew, standard from new saurus cavalry sprue, his left hand weapon is a combination of kroq gar's real weapons, while the right hand weapon are from 2 saurus weapons, nightbringer's scythe, and new saurus cav's weapon. THe base is made from apoxysculpt. The painting for the dino and rider was done via glazing tons of layers on a bleachbone basecoat (and a wash of light brown). The metals were done with tin bitz and layers to try and hilite it (gun metal grey, chainmail, gold, burnished gold, silver) and tons of washes (black) and glazes (green, brown, my rust mix from the dreadnought), sepia ink, to shade and tint it. The standard totem turned out better than the weapons IMHO. I am most proud of the blending on the horns... a bit of a rough transition near the tips but overall, my best results of blending so far. Many thanks to: Cedric, Sebastian, Sven, EricJ, and Ritual for the help on this model and Vincent, and Jeremie for your critiques at Toronto GD 2006. One suggestion I thought didn't look as good, when I tried it in the portion that is now covered by the seat, was giving a different colour for the spine of the dinosaur...I kept it as is since the change for some reason didn't appeal to me :) Anyways, please leave comments and suggestions... Regards, Sanjay
Posted: 28 May 2006
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