Saturday, September 27, 2025

Iron Mainden's Eddie Showcase

 This was a quick little project from Mike Swisstack aka CthulhuGizzard. It's Iron Maiden's infamous mascot Eddie as seen on the Piece of Mind album.

Simply done with washes of Citadel's Agrax Earthshade, V's Rose Beige for the tongue, Army Painter's Bone for the teeth. and black gloss under the metallic colors.

The eyes were done painting the orbits black the brush painting white for the irises (there's a n indication of where they go) and the white again in an airbrush to fuzz the white a bit. Lastly a bloack dot for the pupil.

My next trip to the craft store I'll pick up a mounting for it. Thanks for looking.  


 

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Fr. Karras

 Staying with the horror theme a little longer, Fr. Damien Karras the troubled priest from the 1973 Exorcist film went on the hobby table. The character was played by Jason Miller who sadly passed away in 2001.  As a sidebar his son is Jason Patrick of Lost Boys fame!

The kit is in 2 simple parts - the bust and the base. Looking it over there was only the slightest flash line in the hair, which was easily removed. The sculpt IMO is a freeze frame of when the demon enters the priest, saving Regan. I was surprised that looking for a screen grab of that part of the scene was harder to find than I thought. 


 

With the black priest garb this is going to be an easy paint up. I start as usual with my "pinkle" and red base coat to the skin. While that was drying, my plan was to make the  name plate a tarnished bronze. I saw a tutorial where the tarnish is painting in first and then the metallic is dry brushed on later. So lets see...


 Then the bronzing...


 Next up is  the face colors, and despite him looking very pale in that last image, I felt he needed a little coloring as the first skin application. 


 The priest garb is simply black, and then I added some black gray as a highlight for the shoulders etc... V's Pale Flesh was added to the face and then with the outline of his eyes sculpted it, I added a little Agrax Wash to the round divots and then a greenish yellow to the irises once the Wash dried. The final need was taking my stylus tool and with a dip into black made the pupils. He was finished. He can now join his partner Fr. Merrin who was previously done. Thanks for looking. 

(Apologies for the bad pic)