I have had these two models knocking around for a little while, and I finally decided to take the plunge and get them done. And, as is always the way, once I sat down and started working on them, they did not take anything like as long as I had feared!
Anyway, I am now pleased to present both Trugg and a Dankhold Troggoth – with everything else I have slowly brought together over the past few years, I now have a ‘complete’ Troggoth army, weighing in at about 2,000 points…
Both of these were Slapchopped, both incredibly fast to do – not 20 minute models, by any means, but perhaps three hours (ish) work for both of them together, especially if we deduct the (not massive) drying time.
One thing that kind of solidified for me on these models was using not just Contrast paints with the Slapchop drybrushing, but also Shades. I had used Seraphim Sepia on some models recently as a way to get a light creamy colour with Slapchop and, indeed, that is how I did the stone ruin on Trugg’s back. However, I was a bit puzzled on how to tackle his skin until I hit upon the idea of Targor Rageshade which seemed to be exactly the right colour I was looking for. It took two coats on his body and arms (only doing one coat on his belly left it noticeably lighter than the rest, a desirable effect on Troggoths), but turned out just right!
A little Guilliman Flesh on his nose completed things.
I used the Shade trick again on the shell that forms the end of his club – what you are looking at there is simply Athonian Camoshade on top of the Slapchop prep. The rubble on Trugg’s back started off as just Basilicanum Grey but, as I had also used that on his beard, I needed to punch it up a bit – dabbing a few large patches of Snakebite Leather was just the right touch – thanks go to the Warhipster on YouTube for that idea
I wasn’t going to do the glowing parts of the ruins but, again, the Warhipster came to the rescue once more – this is just a bit of dabbed Hexwraith Flame, with Tesseract Glow used for the really bright bits.
The Dankhold Troggoth was even easier – I simply used pretty much the same scheme as I had done with Mollog recently. The skin is basically two coats of Dreadful Visage (again, just one on the belly), and then it is just cracking on with the details.
Both these models are, obviously, quite large and though they have quite a few details there is nothing especially time consuming about them – something that is true for the entire Troggoth range at the moment.
As mentioned at the start, I now have 2,000 points of these guys and, with them being led by Trugg and the Troggoth Hag, I cannot help but have the feeling that this force is actually Mummy and Daddy taking the children out for a picnic!
Contrary to my original plan to take things slowly, I have once again been falling into the trap of just ploughing through models, so I am going to intentionally hang up the paint brushes for a brief period (yeah, I know, we’ll see how long that lasts…). I have some half-finished Stormcasts on the table right now, and Drycha and some Wyldwoods have been built and undercoated, and really won’t take all that long to polish off.
But… I am going to try to ignore them for a couple of weeks or so while I attend to some other hobbies.
We’ll see how that goes…