Okay it’s been too long and I never got off my butt and finished showing the stuff I picked up from Templecon, but we’re going to struggle and work through that as soon as i can get this stuff done.  And I’m working on it, so apologies to all for the lengthy absence again.

I recently had the privilege of receiving the Lost Hemisphere Blog’s review copy of Father Lucant, the Divinity Architect to assemble and paint, and let me tell you what a joy it was.

 

 

That’s only half sarcasm.  The model is white metal, so it is a nice change of pace from the plastic/resin crap Privateer Press uses for their Convergence models but HO BOY were there a lot of tiny pieces and interesting assembly options!  Have a look at what he looked like when I got him out to clean and begin assembly:

 

 

Once you break down all the 15 pieces you realize this spindly little guy is going to take some careful work to get him assembled and onto a base to paint.  What I found was that being careful with the smaller pieces and pinning what you could worked just fine, and also there are little indicators on the underside of the legs that match up to spots on the abdomen to show what leg goes where, which was helpful but is an easily overlooked detail on the model.  From memory there is a triangle, a square, and then two circles which are the back legs in similar poses.

 

 

 

As I often do, I started assembling from the bottom up, with the exception being that I did his little arms on the torso before attempting the three larger arms.

 

 

 

 

I used my airbrush on Lucant when I was ready to paint, and I found something I did was a bit off because the paint went on a bit grainy and rougher than I would have wanted or expected.  May have had to do with the conditions when I did the paint, I’m not sure.  I ended up not loving the base coat, and chose not to strip it and start again as I found it actually made the metal seem more aged, and though it didn’t take highlights or dry brushing as well after that it still came out all right.  I guess you need to decide for yourself if you like it, I personally feel it needs some more highlights and touching up of the metal but for now I am pleased with having him done.

 

 

The base is a Dragonforge Designs Crux Mechanika round lip base which I found was a bit too metallic and bland UNTIL I painted the black lip around it.  Amazing what it does to just back off the dominant colour and make the base an accent to the model rather than being a big silver eyesore when it was all one colour.  Very happy with the awesome base.

Looking forward to putting Father Lucant on the table sometime soon, need to get Coco the Corollary done and some of the hover Vectors so I can field a few of the lists I’ve been thinking of.

Comments and criticism welcome, hope to have another update very soon!

 

– NB