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Hordes Circle Orboros Baldur the Stone Cleaver
Painted in 2008 and I'm finally getting around to sharing. I've got a small force fully painted so more to come. So here's Baldur, done in a scheme that fits the canon pretty well with a patina effect on the leather somewhat in the Rackham style done with glazes and scratch-like mostly transparent highlights. In the course of painting this I thought about stone swords and whether a good idea, and after a time on wikipedia reading about minerals and the hardness scale and what not I think if you had the magical strength to wield it and the enchantment to resist shattering from a lateral blow it's a better idea than I thought at first. I like this figure a lot. I've seen it catch flak for being static, etc, but that's kind of the point. He's got that immovable object vibe going, and his hands are just expressive enough to convey he's working some earth magic. Below he's shown amidst his shifting stones. More on my blog: http://belchedfromthedepths.blogspot.com/2013/07/baldur-stonecleaver.html
Posted: 3 Aug 2013
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