{"id":3737,"date":"2016-01-08T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2016-01-08T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:22:15","slug":"nightmaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2016\/01\/nightmaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the holidays and our annual club Apocalypse game last week, Jason<\/a>\u00a0and TJ organized a Secret Servitor among a good number of the PAGE 40k<\/a> players. Everybody\u00a0was secretly assigned\u00a0a random person, and painted a character or other 40k model or accessory for them. I\u00a0was assigned Jason himself.<\/p>\n

At first I wasn’t sure what\u00a0to put together, as he\u00a0doesn’t play Imperials anymore, and what few traitor Marines he does field\u00a0are\u00a0elaborately built and quite unique<\/a>, so I didn’t have any good bits to throw at a unique model.\u00a0Then I remembered I did have a relatively uncommon and distinctive\u00a0Daemon-appropriate\u00a0model laying around: Nightmaw, from Forge World<\/a>. I had gotten him to be basically an NPC and\/or objective for\u00a0the Solypsus 9 campaign<\/a> but never got around to putting\u00a0him together, so I’m happy to see the model\u00a0put into play.<\/p>\n

This is the final product,\u00a0my first model painted for 2016:<\/p>\n

\"front\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"left\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"right\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Backstory<\/h2>\n

The Nightmaw\u00a0model comes with\u00a0an infantry character named Sayl\u00a0the Faithless, and they have an excellent\u00a0official story (from Forge World<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Sayl is pre-eminent among the Dolgan tribe, and his rise to ascendancy began with his allegiance to Schalkain the Vile, as one of his seven seer-apprentices. Sayl\u2019s honeyed lies turned each acolyte against the others, and fanned the flames of suspicion into murderous strife. Eventually Schalkain was manipulated into conducting a dark rite involving Sayl and three fellow \u2018loyal\u2019 apprentices which resulted in Schalkain\u2019s horrific death at the hands of a daemon beholden to Sayl, while the three surviving acolytes were twisted into a terrible beast known as Nightmaw. Hated and feared, Sayl the Faithless and Nightmaw now march alongside Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean, honestly, if you’re going to hang out with a guy named Sayl the Faithless, you’re basically begging to be turned into a Gollum-wannabe…<\/p>\n

Painting<\/h2>\n

Painting him up I used my airbrush quite a bit, spraying\u00a0the tan\u00a0underside, green topside, grey rock, and black base rim, starting from a white primer. The blood paint and wash wound up\u00a0a bit too thick, so coloring details of the claws and teeth were lost, but he looks super gore-drenched. As Jason exclaimed approvingly “Aw, he’s grooossss!” I debated a long while about how to wash the model, and eventually went with Athonian Camoshade<\/a> over everything.\u00a0That turned out to be a good call, it tied everything together nicely versus a black or brown on the rock. A couple\u00a0layers\u00a0of it went onto\u00a0key green sections like along the vertebrae to accentuate those details.<\/p>\n

I definitely need to switch out my dull coat as he came out shinier than I would have hoped, just like my Terminators<\/a> did. I was hoping it was a question of spraying\u00a0too much on them. Some of the green\u00a0variations are also a bit too subtle, some of the texture and other bits would\u00a0show up better in photos if they were more overt. The mud brown base got washed too thickly\u00a0and caught a bit of\u00a0overspray while doing the rim, so it’s too black and doesn’t stand out from the rim, especially in photos.<\/p>\n

But I’m super happy with how the rock turned out. It’s a chunk of pink foam carved up and then coated in liquid greenstuff to give more texture and protect from the primer spray. The base physically also turned out well. I didn’t want to use the stock base because it’s square,\u00a0a 40mm base would have been\u00a0too small for the skull collection, and 60mm looked too big. So I wound up Dremeling\u00a0the bottom\u00a0off an empty 50mm vitamin bottle I had laying around, which turned out near perfect.\u00a0If I did it again I’d try to find something a bit deeper in order to pore some resin water effect in there and make a nice little creepy grotto,\u00a0but it probably wouldn’t change the general\u00a0look and feel\u00a0that much.<\/p>\n

Overall I’m pretty happy with this guy, and it was entertaining to paint something besides Marine armor.<\/p>\n

In-Game<\/h2>\n

Appropriately, in his debut, Nightmaw lurked\u00a0by\u00a0some rocks throughout the Apocalypse battle royale\u00a0and survived to the end.\u00a0Quite unlike essentially all of the Kingbreakers. Maybe I should consider more deeply the powers of the dark ones???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the holidays and our annual club Apocalypse game last week, Jason\u00a0and TJ organized a Secret Servitor among a good number of the PAGE 40k players. Everybody\u00a0was secretly assigned\u00a0a random person, and painted a character or other 40k model or accessory for them. I\u00a0was assigned Jason himself. At first I wasn’t sure what\u00a0to put together, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[272,340,274,29],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","tag-40k","tag-chaos","tag-miniatures","tag-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}