Owowow!
July 14th, 2008 by Missy
Varghulfs are SHARP! I’m in the middle of cleaning (read filing / sanding) my Varghulf to get him ready for some greenstuffing. I figured I’d take a break to nurse my poor abused fingers :p Seriously, that thing has talons.
I finished pinning him yesterday, but he’s going to need A LOT of greenstuff. I have to admit that I’m a little disappointed with how poorly he was cast. Mold lines were minimal, but he has so much flash on him that I thought I might need to break out the Dremel to clean him up. I guess he’s mostly cleaned now, but I’m going to have to rebuild his fur in several areas where gigantic bits of flash have completely ruined it. All four limbs are going to need extensive greenstuff to fill gaps and build fur to overlap the smoother parts of his body. I rather imagine I’ll be working on him most of the day, actually.
Hopefully tomorrow he’ll be cured enough that I can prime him. Think I might also spend tomorrow assembling and greenstuffing dire wolves. My paints should hopefully arrive Wednesday, as well. After contacting Neal about my missing paints he discovered something wrong with my order and sent out a new set of paints today with better shipping so.. Wednesday. Seriously, I’m going into painting withdrawal here. I am dying for my paints to arrive.
Now I just need to figure out what to paint once they get here ^_^ I’ll probably finish off the one Grave Guard I had been working on, and then perhaps I’ll paint up the Varghulf. After that, I believe I’ll paint a test dire wolf. If he’s enjoyable enough, I think I’ll finish off the dire wolves.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I just wish I could teach my wife to clean and assemble models at all. She just flat refuses to assemble/prime. I think she just likes to paint, and likes me to do the “work” for her.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Ah, to be completely truthful — I don’t generally do my own assembling. I pinned the Varghulf myself, and I clean all of my own models (flash, mold lines, green stuff, etc), but I don’t handle glue at all. I can’t abide the feel of it if it gets on my fingers, so Dan does absolutely all of my super gluing.