Tarrasque time!

[blargney 968]

Now that I've completed Domog, high priest of Rovagug, it's time to move on to the lesser threat: the Tarrasque, Herald of Rovagug.

 

I got Khanjira the world breaker with the Kickstarter ages ago, and dusted off the box recently while working on Domog.  I was saddened to discover the big guy's left leg was missing.  Fortunately, Reaper is awesome and they shipped me a replacement leg!  With a nice bottle of paint to boot. :-)

[Darcstaar 6461]

Reaper is the best!

Super excited to see you paint this.  Good luck.

[Glitterwolf 149047]

Great!

Go for it!

[BananeDC 714]

Hi,

Yep, feel like seeing how you worked this one !

If you want a bit of help/inspiration, i have done mine last year :

https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/78703-tarrasquekanjira/

 

[blargney 968]

Never done a mini this big before.  Dude has mould lines for days.

[blargney 968]

Hopefully mould line removal will be done tomorrow.  I'm feeling a little cross-eyed now.

[blargney 968]

My friend has 3d printed a 6" diameter base.  I'll pick it up today.  *excited noises*

[blargney 968]

Just spent half an hour "scrubbing my tarrasque". #innuendopunctuation

[blargney 968]

I noticed that Khanjira's center of mass is in a tipsy configuration, so I got a little mad scientisty.

 

I bunged some scrap metal into the hollow of the building under his right foot, and splorched the whole thing with caulking.  It'll probably be a couple of days or more for it to cure lol.

Edited July 20 by blargney

[blargney 968]

Still got six joints to glue, putty, and pin, but the big guy stands on his own now!

[blargney 968]

Legs attached to body then to the base, just the arms left to go.  That was the trickiest part of assembly so far because there's a fair amount of strain in the hip joints.  I wouldn't be surprised if cracks appear there sometime.

 

I did my best to carve the ball and socket to reduce strain caused by fitting the feet to the base, but it was still present, particularly in the right hip.  You can see the fat band of putty filling the gap.

[blargney 968]

I unexpectedly got the house to myself for half an hour, and assembly is done!  I'd done all the fitting, drilling, and whittling on previous days, so I just needed a few uninterrupted minutes for the final putty, glue, and pins.

 

I've got a young one in the house, so I'm taking care to build this guy to withstand a few good drops. :-D

 

Next steps: file putty in seams, clean off the ample accrued finger oils, glue some debris to the disc base, then prime.

[blargney 968]

I wasn't planning to prime zenithally, but partway through, the black primer I was using to darken the grey primer splorched out super fast.  So I rolled with it and put the dark stuff on the base and undersides.

[blargney 968]

Last week I did a all-over liner of mixed black & brown ink to figure out details.  Got some brush time in today.  One undercoat of glossy black for the carapace, followed by a base coat of a 1:1 mix of burnt sienna ink and metallic bronze.

I'm trying to figure out if the pauldrons and nape plates are supposed to be part of the reflective rust-coloured carapace or separate.  Thoughts?

[blargney 968]

Black ink added, never used that stuff undiluted on a mini before.  Yowzah.