Eric Umbrand Earthshaker and Ulher the Disciplined

 

A couple of new figures for you that I got finished over the last couple of weeks. I haven't been that productive (the wisdom tooth extraction area has had more woes) but I have very much enjoyed spending time in my little workshop sorting out my bits and bobs and tinkering away on a small clutch of figures. 

Eric Umbrand Earthshaker is probably the most 'chaos warriory warrior' you get hope to meet. He ticks all the motifs on the list of '80s chaos warrior tropes. Full plate armour, impressive weapon, inimitable helm and that Goodwin pizzaz that just screams Citadel quality. He is an interesting figure and he came from another small bag of bits recently returned to me. My old unpainted collection seems to slowly be making its way back, or parts of it at least, so I'm hopeful for more pieces in the future. This model had already been painted, presumably by my son a fair few years ago, but never finished. He'd painted it red and washed over rather sloppily with a dark ink wash. So instead of stripping the figure, on a whim I decided to just paint him using edge highlights to see where we got. 

It was a simple case of Hobgoblin orange, followed by Sunburst Yellow with a final highlight of the yellow mixed with a little Skull White. This little project gave me the chance to practice a little freehand on the embossed pauldron too, you should just be able to see a face despite my crappy camera. 

His weapon and chainmail was just drybrushed though I aged the grip and pommel with a little Hawk Torquoise as you might be able to make out. 

The second figure is Ulher the Disciplined and if memory serves me here is a Lord of Battle. He was much trickier than Eric and I spent sometime tinkering with how to make him look interesting. Just having a silver chap in full plate didn't look 'Citadelesque' enough for me. I matched his helmet to the golden guard on his two handed blade but that wasn't enough to bring the figure to life either.

In the end, I just painted the two pauldrons black and added white chequers. I freehanded the classic chessboard on the right hand side, obscured here by the blade of the sword, and detailed the guard on the left.

Obviously, I was struck by how similar the poses of these two figures are. Perhaps my subconscious selected something simple and comforting as I struggle onwards with a poorly face. I'm drawn back to my earliest memories of figure painting looking at the Skeleton Horde and Army (a project I very much need to resurrect- pun very much intended). In fact, I have found one of the very first metal models I ever painted in my new bag of goodies and he is on the table for tonight's session .

Speak soon, 

Orlygg