Monday 25 June 2012

Forge Father Iron Ancestor

I am Iron Man … cestor …

If you’ve been keeping tabs on Warpath 2.0, you may’ve spotted Ronnie and Alessio teasing you with a mysterious squat bot. This is the Forge Father Iron Ancestor, Ninjabread's Curis painted at Golem.
This robot is on a 60mm base – which were built up with steps. These were made from a spare Mantic warmachine base cut into segements and stacked on top of each other. The edge was filled in with Liquid Green Stuff and filed smooth and flat.
Curis mocked up the colour scheme in Photoshop, at first trying a light blue with gold beard to match the rest of the studio army (specifically their Stormrage Veterans). It’s really good fun playing with schemes before you commit to anything with acrylics – you get to repaint sections in an instant. You never want to paint any area twice with miniatures – it can clog up the detail, and also time is money.

Early draft Iron Ancestor colour scheme
Armour plates are blue in the studio Forge Father range. This tempts the unwary painter to paint the entire Iron Ancestor blue – it’s all armour plates. Hoewever, the blues on the infantry are balanced against a neutral colour underall or combat fatigues. So Curis also picked out plates in grey. After all – it was the IRON Ancestor.
We're really chuffed with the result. Curis’ll be picking up a couple for his Furnace Valley Forge Father army (expect photos soon).

Gruebot from BoLS commented it looked like Ram Man (the human battering ram!) from the Masters of the Universe. If it was spotted that earlier it may’ve been mocked up in Photoshop too.
This beauty will be available in August along with the other Forge Father releases. You can pre-order these stonking deals here.

Tuesday 19 June 2012

Facebook Give Away!

The next model Tommie wants to pass on to one of you awesome folk is his Boss Zagstruck.

Golem is feeling generous at the moment, VERY generous.
It all started with Tommie Soule donating a Model from his personal collection to charity.
He wants to give some away to our fans AND customers here on facebook.
'BUT HOW AND WHO?' I hear you ask.
Well to make it as fair as possible we figured we would randomly choose from SHARERS and LIKES, of our home page below and a 'wild card' MOST LOYAL FAN chosen by Tommie himself.

So as of now SHARE AND LIKE!

Lets see if we can get 2k and beyond!!!!!!

Saturday 16 June 2012

Nurlge Trolls

Hello!

Welcome to the Golem blog!

This blog will be used for showcasing finished models, works in progress, project logs, all manner of other studio updates, posting articles, including product reviews and and tutorials, as well as random musings!

 To kick us off here are some* vile Nurgle Bile Trolls which Thomas Moore has painted!

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*two units of three trolls posed identically as per the clients request.