sykho volesterus

I really liked this miniature when I first saw it so I bought it as soon as it was available. I certainly wasn't disappointed with the actual sculpt but as with many Rackham miniatures it really is too fine in certain areas. The miniature snapped at the ankles whilst I was cleaning it up and I wrecked the banner where it joins to the main body because it is too fine to form a robust joint. Needless to say that that miniature was thrown into the 'buggered miniatures draw' and promptly forgotten about. About a month later I was asked to paint the same miniature for a customer, I wasn't overly keen but accepted nonetheless. This time around I was careful to an extreme and managed to finish the miniature without breaking anything (I did use a new miniature, the other is still lamenting its fragility from the depths of the BMD)...

The miniature certainly looks like a demented surgeon so I tried for a colour similar to that of surgeon's greens for the overcoat and the other colours just sorted themselves out from there. The base is once again made from cork sheeting which I cut to an appropriate size for the base and then tore at with tweezers to get an irregular look to the edges.

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