This metal Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature appears in the 1991 catalogue as part number 073167/6. It’s a 1989 sculpt as per the tab, though unfortunately I can’t find a single sculptor credit.
Looking at him, I strongly suspect it’s Jes Goodwin who’s responsible for this sculpt – his name is on the 1991 catalogue page showing it along with “The Citadel Design Team” (someone who had left GW by the time that catalogue page came out), so he’s the leading candidate in my eyes.
This was one of those miniatures that you get in your hands and realise that there are details which weren’t at all obvious in the catalogue picture; I had no idea he had an exposed brain, and it was only really when it was undercoated that it was clear. Always a pleasure to find unexpected details!
I base coated him with an airbrush – red from below, green from above:
Painted:
Paints used:
- Undercoat: Vallejo Panzer Grey Primer
- Green: Kimera Inktensity Alizarin Crimson from below, Acid Green from above
- Gold: Necro Gold with Elven Gold as a highlight
- Silver: Black Metal with Heavy Metal as a highlight
- Rust: Kimera Inktensity Rust
- Wood/Leather: Kimera Inktensity Leather, followed by Royal Brown on the leather and Smoke/Sepia on the wood
- Base: Soilworks Winter texture paint followed by Mars pigment, then some Dark Mud pigment, and some Reddish Brown
- Oil wash over the metal/green: Scale75 Moist Soil, left to sit for half an hour then sponged off
- Face: Kimera’s Shiny Skintone and Ivory Light, with a wash of one of the Scale75 oil greens.
- Eye: Kimera’s Ivory Light with Intensity Smoke as the pupil.