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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Robinson" data-source="post: 4762297" data-attributes="member: 21330">The balrog is plastic and comes unassembled on a sprue, so, the first thing was to put everything together, then fill all the gaps with some green stuff and do a little sculpting to make sure it all looked fine.  Some of the gaps were quite extensive, so I took quite a long time making sure that I got this bit right - any major faults now would show up clearly later on, so it was better to spend the time making sure I got it right from the start.  It took me roughly a week to construct the model, fill it and removing the mould lines.<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/keith/balrog1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />After a white primer, the really scary thing was now painting the entire model orange.  A bright, fiery orange, from head to toe!<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/keith/balrog2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Now, at this point it was very intimidating.  This thing hadn't been cheap and I'm not the best painter in the world, and I've got a bright orange figure.  I don't mind admitting that the thought of painting this thing was quite intimidating now - much more so than I thought it would be.  But hey, the only way to remedy that feeling was to start getting some paint on and reduce the orange.  I ran a yellow wash along the body, which sat well on the orange base, giving it quite a molten look.  I then painted the top skin area black, to kinda give the impression of cooled lava.  Overall, I wanted to give the impression of a creature made entirely from molten lava, which had cooled at the surface.The actual paiting of the black area was slow and required a lot of patience, as I had to use a fine brush and pretty much paint the majority of it on one step at a time.  This was particularly true of the legs, which were painstaking.Nonetheless, it was worth it and, on the whole, I was pretty pleased with the outcome...<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/keith/balrog3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/keith/balrog4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/keith/balrog5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Well, at least I wasn't being blinded by so much orange!  And my confidence in tackling the figure had improved, since I was quite happy with the way things were turning out.</blockquote>

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