Over two years later, I've finally finished it. Gabriel wanted him to be fair-skinned, with a blue and gold theme, so the metallic parts are gold, cloth parts are blue, leather parts brown.
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Religious Fanatic, Iron Heroes line. Each arm is a separate piece attached at the shoulder. To make sure I had plenty of room for the pin I used one pin that goes all the way through the mini: I drilled completely through the torso, glued and puttied in it place, then drilled completely through the shoulder of each arm, positioned the arm-hole over the pin, glued and puttied, clipped the pin ends as close as I could to the shoulder, then used putty to smooth over the outer shoulder pad. The net result is a pin that's 1/4" long instead of two much shorter pins; I'm not ready to go shaking the mini by one of its arms, but it should hold up to normal use for a long time. Note that in the master photo of the mini they have his axe and icon-staff crossed in front of him; I decided not to do it that way because I thought I'd have a hard time painting the space between the crossed weapons and his chest. However, I agreed to paint this set for Gabriel from Monte's boards, and he wanted it the way it is in the picture, so I took off the arms, recrossed the staff and axe, and reattached them. Over two years later, I've finally finished it. Gabriel wanted him to be fair-skinned, with a blue and gold theme, so the metallic parts are gold, cloth parts are blue, leather parts brown. |