Um the Barbarian (Goldar Conversion #2)

Um the Barbarian (Goldar Conversion #2)

Here is Um the barbarian, my second conversion of Goldar the Barbarian (See my flesh golem for the first).

First a look at the finished miniature:

How it was done...

Digging through a large pile of GW Dispossessed Dwarf bits from eBay I found an unhelmeted head I could actually use, though I had to trim down the blatantly dwarven beard and iconography.  Also added are two dwarf hands with two-handed axes (I later replace the right battle axe with a twin of the left).

Moar bitz!

I originally was going to leave the model as it is, after filling in the elbows, but I could still see too much Goldar in him!  My saviour was finding an old chaos fur shoulder which I carved out and made a copy of with a mold.  Then I filled it out with some greenstuff to make the fur come down over the front of his shoulders. I also added some dwarven shoulder pads as elbow pads but I regret that as I had to sculpt the cape around the arms, which covered the elbows.

  

The Paint Job

 I tried to actually use some colour theory here. With all the skin showing, fleshtones (aka orange-ish) was a main visual, colour theory suggests green and purple.  

I had help with a couple of tutorials here, for the eyes and beard (tutorials are much better than my minor recreations here).  I also tried a couple of new things, like using very dilute paint for blending in the cape and Citadel's Drakenhof Nightshade for the tattoos, and though I wish I had planned out the tats better beforehand, I'm quite happy with how they turned out.  

 

What I would have done differently?  

I should have planned out the tattoos better and I wish I had done them on a different part of the body because it hid a bunch of work I did on the skin underneath them.  Also I wish I could have painted the back of the miniature without the cape and added that on afterwords, but that's one of the problems with making these miniatures haphazardly as I do.

As always C&C welcome!