Twilight Before Ragnarok WIP Part III

Everyone in place...

now for the green flocking.

Gold, black, rock, snow and green are all done everyone is set again for the next stage, fine details.

Twilight before Ragnarök WIP Part III

Giants and Loki's allies will be to the right on the snowy blackened land.

The forces of Woden will be on the brown and later grass covered left.

Next up is to match each individual's piece to their base coating.

Each figure has magnets that will be able to lock on to metal that will also be added to their individual locations.

Weary Warrior of the Stars

For countless battles over endless "years" the "Captain" has fought the enemies of his Emperor. Untold numbers of Xenos have fallen to his weapons on thousands of planets as he protects the Human Empire from these bloodthirst horrors.

His armor is dented, his cloak rent and marred with his blood and that of his foes and his weapons are worn but his fighting spirit is undiminished.

For he knows only war, never peace, as the Emperors enemies are countless and relentless. So long has he fought he has even forgotten his name and now only responds to his title Captain when addressed by others. Even the roll keepers and officers of the Dark Angels know him by no other name.

 As rest is not an option, the Captain relies upon his faith in the Emperor, duty to his comrades and trust in his skills to continue the endless task of war! Mayhaps the peace of death, which has so eluded him, will someday allow him rest...but today is not that day!

The Captain is a plastic piece I painted on Monday

 

Twilight Before Ragnarök Part II WIP

Top of the mountain has its sand coating added.

Almost halfway finished.

Sand is finished...

and a lights basecoat of brown has been painted on.

The areas will now be given a top coating that will match the bases of the figures that will stand there.  

All Know Loki!

Loki, the Trickster God/Giant of Norse fame. He was "Blood Brother" to Woden (not his son). He was actually the son of the Jotunn Farbauti and the Goddess Laufey.

A devious creature of divided loyalties, Loki could with one hand present the gods of Aesir with fantastic gifts such as Woden's steed Sleipnir. While using the other hand to stab a god in the back. Such as his involvement in the death of the most popular Aesir god-Baldr.

Loki was also a shapeshifter and was forever getting in either others or himself into serious difficulties. The strangest was possibly when he changed himself into an alluring mare to lure away the stallion Svadifari from his giant master. Their union resulted in Loki giving birth to the eight legged and magical Sleipnir who became Woden's steed.   

Though his "marriage" (he had at least three wives) to the Jotunn Angrboda, he fathered three of the deadliest and most horrific monsters in the Norse World. These were the World Serpent Jormungard, who grew so large that his body encircled the World. Fenrir, the terrible Wolf willing to swallow the World during Ragnarok. And Hel, a woman with one side of her body stunningly beautiful while the other side was decayed rotting flesh. It surprised no one that Hel became the ruler of Helheim-the land of the dead.

Small by Jotunn standards, Loki often seemed to overcompensate for this by being at the center of many of the most outlandish adventures/actions in the Nine realms. Some with Thor as a companion, such as when he gave Thor the mighty hammer Mjolnir. But most of his actions vexed the Aesir, such as when he kidnapped the Goddess Idunn. One never truly knew what Loki really had in mind or what side he was on, except his own.

Loki is a plastic piece I finished this weekend.

Next Project "Twilight Before Ragnarok" WIP Part I

Making a diorama using some of the Norse gods, giants and monsters that I have painted. First up, the five-tiered mountain design with most of the locations for the pieces marked.

A couple of pieces and place holder sized cardboard.

Most of the pieces in their assigned locations.

The large spot on the top tier is for Woden. All the pieces are plastic from Mystic Battles.

Next up is the tedious glueing on the sand basing cover to the hillsides and tops.

You're a Dwarf!

How can you be a dwarf, when you're taller a human like me. "Well," says Norro Biggorbb of the Clan Sonn O'orbb, "being a dwarf is more of a relative concept of family and beliefs than size." One thing we all have in common is that we all despise ORC's!

Yes, all dwarves hate Orcs like him...

"Hi there, you look like a tiny dwarf!" says "Bad Moon" Clan leader Hrdthth Bnn Smssh Krrr.

Brave Hiktos Nuluk is metal, all the other pieces are plastic.