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| "Brother-killer of Margus." |
This 40mm scale model of Korg is made by "CoolMiniOrNot", and was unlocked during the company's highly successful February 2020 Kickstarter for "Marvel United" when it achieved a whopping $2,866,168 in funding. Based upon Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby's "member of the alien species Kronan" for "Marvel Comics", the figure can be found inside the boardgame's Season One expansion box entitled "Tales Of Asgard".
Produced in a light blue hard plastic, the "one- time prisoner of the Red King on Sakaar" was primed using a couple of coats of "Vallejo" Heavy Brown, and had all of his rocky-like skin shaded in "Citadel" Agrax Earthshade. These 'armour plates' were then dry-brushed with (more) "Vallejo" Heavy Brown so as to bring out all of their wonderful sculpt's details.
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| "CoolMiniOrNot" WIPs - Groot has been primed, shaded and dry-brushed |
Now obviously, for those fans only familiar with the warrior via either "Bigchild Creatives" official paint-job, or Taika Waititi's 2017 film "Thor: Ragnarok", this particular palette is going to seem a far cry from the predominantly grey appearance of the 'silver screen' character. However, I'm not a fan of this incarnation at all, and much prefer the tan/orange look from his comic book appearance in Issue Ninety Three [Volume Two] of "Incredible Hulk".
With this colour scheme in mind, I applied some "Two Thin Coats" Cold Corpse Blue to Korg's gladiator armour, darkened it down with a splosh of "Citadel" Nuln Oil, and later lightened it back up with a dry-brush of (more) Cold Corpse Blue by "Two Thin Coats". I also gave his belts a lick of "Vallejo" Heavy Sienna and "Citadel" Agrax Eartshade, whilst the Stone Man's buckle was treated to a combination of "Vallejo" Gunmetal and "Citadel" Nuln Oil.
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| "Big Head Chibis" WIPs - Lady is being painted from her boots upwards |
Having completed the latest "Marvel United" piece I hope to use for the Marvel Multiverse RPG (MMRPG), I've rather impulsively set to work on the co-operative boardgame's model of Groot. This particular super-hero's statistics feature in the MMRPG's Core Rulebook - as opposed to just having a brief cameo in the game's starter set scenario like Korg, so can easily be used as part of the central roster in any future campaigns.
Furthermore, I've been busy producing the latest figures produced by "Big Head Chibis" as part of their "Patreon" monthly subscription, on my "Elegoo" Mars 5 3D printer. This has really helped galvanise me into cracking on with the company's Lady [Jaye] sculpt - which I now need to get tabletop ready in a hurry, before I'm completely swamped with several other models from their range...
I too prefer the brown/tan over the grey palette, and a great job you've done on him too. I do have to say I'm not as enamoured with the sculpt of Groot, though I'm sure you'll paint him up a treat.
ReplyDeleteI do like the Jaye sculpt though, and the monkey skull and bones on the base (that can't be a humans skull in this world!) really sets off the base wonderfully well.
Cheers Roger.
Thanks very much, Roger. I was actually using Korg as a test-piece for my Marvel United sculpt of the Thing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Groot is already finished and should be next in line to be posted later this week.
DeleteLady's base is by Crippled God Foundry - as I found the Big Head Chibi bases aren't comparable with those of the Marvel United figures. I bought this particular one from someone on eBay. But its one of only a few of the ten which were actually usable - as the 3D prints were awful - really dire quality control. So I've since bought the STLs for myself, and now print my own.