The Roost of Turkadactyl

I’ve done well for avoiding finecast and pewter with my Carcharodons force.  The Terminator Librarian is finecast and I am thankful that is the only one.  I have plenty of pewter with my Adepta Sororitas, Grey Knights and Tyranids so I am thankful that the Terminator Chaplain is the only pewter model I will have to deal with.  The pewter made things a little interesting so come on in and find out why.

Here I have all of the base colours on.  All paints are Citadel- Burnished Gold (old line), Mechanicus Standard Grey, Rakarth Flesh, Scab Red (old line), Bleached Bone (old line) and LeadbelcherThe plastic base is temporary.

Then things got a wee bit interesting.  The next step was dipping in the varnish.  I am used to dipping the lighter plastic and resin models.  I started to flick the model to get the excess varnish off.  I thought I had a good grip and boy was I wrong.  The model slips out of my grip and lands in the dirt.  I’m not one to swear too much.  I usually reserve donations to the curse jar for special occasions and this was one of them.

I didn’t think I had the luxury of time to research what to do in the event of dropping a model covered in varnish in dirt.  I had a bucket close by so I filled it with water and decided to give the Chaplain a bath in hopes to get the dirt off.  Well, mixing water and varnish was not exactly the smoothest operation.  That being said I was able to get most of the dirt off.  I tried to dry off most of the water and then crossed the fingers that the model wasn’t ruined.  The only thing I could do at this point was wait.  I returned to the Chaplain the next day and the model was salvaged.  There was some dirt stuck in the varnish but I knew I could paint over it.  I dodged a bullet with this one.  I hope to make some Tau suffer with this mistake.

Next step is applying the decals then the highlights.