Not a lizard

I just can't leave it alone. The Hive Tyrant base is mostly done. There's still several tweaks and at least two holes that have to be drilled, but that's all easy stuff.

I need to cut a cleft from the left side to break up the straight line and to counterbalance the two ridges on the other sides; while you can't see it, I also need to finish sealing up several places on the ridges and the underside of the "rock." I'm going to also experiment with adding rough-grain sand to the edges of the rock -- the end result will be basalt in a lava flow, and having some texture implying that the rock is being devoured by lava would be nice. Why rock-in-lava? I want to try lighting techniques on something I can easily remake or reprime before going to town with it on Skarre.

There's the Hive Tyrant. He's about 6 inches tall, so it gives you an idea of how large the base is.

Summore Bog Trogs

The Bog Trogs are coming along -- rather, a Bog Trog is coming along. Several washes later, here's how he's looking:



Yes, that's another not-a-lizard project to the left. I found an old Hive Tyrant in my garage that I'd never attached arms to; I cleaned it, added magnets to it and then took an inventory of the possible weapons and biomorphs it can have. Eventually, it'll all get magnetized, but that's a ways away -- there are way, way too many options in 40K games.

The bronze is done on the legplates; it's not flashy, but it's OK. The skin's been washed / highlighted to about where I want it, and the face is pretty much done.

The modesty cloth is close to being done, too; it's going to need the tears darkened up a bit. You can see that the fins on the arms and the feet aren't done yet; they're always a bit of frustration on these types of models, because they're very visible while being pretty uninteresting. On the leader of the Bog Trogs, I'm going to play with glazing them to try to get a translucent look, but these regular troopers don't need that level of detail.

You can really see here how much cleaner this Trog is, and it's all thanks to proper priming. The scales will need another layer of lighter green on them, especially on the shoulders; I'm also going to need to make the color gradients on his crest and swept-back whiskers more obvious.