The Saga of Porridge Baby Part 2

I’m kind of blow away by how well this has worked. When I was looking at expanding foam splatted on pizza boxes in the back garden I was cautiously optimistic, but I couldn’t have imagined things were going to end up.

So from where we left off, I spent a lot of time plugging gaps with my glue gun.

From there I mixed up a thin goop of paint, filler, sand, pva and no more nails, which I used to prime the model. After that I him him with a white spray primer.

Even though he was already primed, the white not only caught any bits my brush couldn’t get to, but enabled me to easily see any parts that needed more texture. I also added some chains at this point.

From there he got blasted with black:

Painting my Nurgle stuff is a fairy organic process. I know I want an overall green look, but I use lots of layers of very watered down paint to get a lot of texture and to make things look more natural.

This goes back and forth for a while, drybrush, glaze, stipple, repeat.

It came to the wash stage, and I was never going to use Citadel, so I made my own – water, matt medium, black paint and a tiny amount of washing up liquid.

I was pretty much done here, I just had a few spots on the foam where paint hadn’t reached, and I had to make all the insides glossy. The holes in the foam were filled with a pipette containing acrylic ink and left to spill out and run down the model.

The insides were stippled with various inks and washes mixed with gloss varnish.

Unsure about the base and wanting to keep a lot of the natural paint spill, I just covered it in Citadel’s Nurgle’s Rot, and then painted the edge black.

I am seriously blown away. It’s not often with a project like this, especially one that was so experimental, that everything runs so smoothly. While finishing up the paint job and new video popped up on Midwinter Mini’s YouTube channel:

It seems porridge babies are in the hobby ether! Maybe my next project is a Titan sized lad?