Sunday, January 25, 2015

'Myth' from StefanK - 'Thor, The Mighty God of Thunder'


Thor, The Mighty God of Thunder
For this bonus theme I went into Nordic mythology and chose Odin’s mighty son to be my entry. He is one of the best known Nordic deities and has thunder and lightning at his disposal. I tried to catch a bit of his ferocity in this miniature.

The figure:
It’s a 40mm figure which was made by Wargames Foundry ages ago. Actually I wanted to have it for a Of Gods and Mortals warband but finally I mounted it on a large 60mm circular base which is probably too large to use it for playing. Anyway the figure is very well sculpted and excellently cast. There were a lot of fabulous details on it but on the other hand enough space to create freehands. I used my humble skills to try that on the coat.


The colours:
As usual I employed Vallejo Model Coulors to paint Thor. For the choice of colours I drew my inspiration from pictures from old Marvel comics about the superheroe Thor. I thought it might be a nice idea to connect the mythical figure with the modern superheroe. Anyway this time I didn’t use Armypainter Quickshade or something like that but built up every colour from three or more stages. For the coat I used five mixtures of different red tones to blend the folds smoothly. For the embroidery on the coat I used different shades of metal and non-metal colours to create an idea of ornament. Unfortunately I reached the limits of my skills there…

The base:
When I saw the figure with its blowing hair the idea of Thor standing on top of a mountain unleashing a mighty lightning storm came to my mind. Therefor I cut off the metal base just below his feet and mounted him on a pile of several pieces of slate. To accommodate all this stuff I chose a 60mm circular MDF base from the outstanding range of Wargames Miniatures. After painting all the basing stuff I used a mixture of white paint and PVA glue to add corundum sand on the snowy spots. In addition I added some snowy static grass to complete the scene.


I dearly hope that you like my humble work because honestly it’s probably one of my best results so far.

14 comments:

  1. Beautiful, love the highlighting on the back of the cloak.

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  2. Lovely work on that cloak, and the wild hair and beard are just right!

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  3. Great job, I especially like the base work.

    John

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  4. A mighty fine job on this mighty god. Cheers

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  5. Great job, you can really feel the cold wind blowing when watching this scene!

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  6. Brilliant job on this. That cape and the freehand is stellar.

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  7. What a stunning piece of work, that cloak is amazing Stefan!

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  8. Beautiful brushwork Stefan and the basing is superb.

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  9. Many thanks for your kind comments and the great encouragement. It was a real pleasure to take as much time as needed for this fellow to finish him this way.
    :-)

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  10. In my opinion this is amongst the best of the submissions this round. The figure is excellent but it's actually the cloak that I keep returning to. Stunning work Stefan.

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  11. This is a really stunning bit of painting. Well done.

    Pip pip

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  12. This is a really stunning bit of painting. Well done.

    Pip pip

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