This is a model I’ve owned for years, and has languished in the draw of shame for far too long. After painting my way through a couple of armies, I wanted a more standalone project, and I’d settled on painting a big model. This guy stood out to me and I got going.
I decided pretty quickly I wanted to try out an ice base, which presented me with a problem: how does a molten lava giant stand on ice? My girlfriend suggested that pillars of magma would rise up from below the ice and support him, which seemed very cool to me, so that’s what I tried to achieve with the basing. The broken ice chunks are made from cut up clear plastic (like what comes on blister packs).
This model was pretty interesting to paint, in that I’ve always found painting convincing fire effects challenging, as reverse highlights are tricky to get to look right. Here with the lava textures on the model, getting a smooth result wasn’t an issue as there are a lot of hard edges in lava flows especially in the cooler bits of black crust.
This model has a crazy amount of gems all over it, and that really tested my patience, but it’s very rewarding to see them all done on the finished model.
Overall I’m very happy with the outcome, I don’t have any current plans to build an army to go with him but I do have enough eldar models lying around to make one, so who knows!
Lair of the Lagomorph 