Painting and building the Snowstorm

The Snowstorm - Malifaux from Wyrd Games

He's a big hairy Wendigo, trapped next to a Silent One.. and is sort of pivotal in many Rasputina crews, so me, like many others, have been waiting for this fella to come out in plastic for quite some time.

There is lots more of this stuff on my Malifaux pages

Currently most of the painted examples I can find online are of the old metal Snowstorm so this may be one of the first walk-throughs of the plastic set online?

The new Snowstorm is very definately a "big Wendigo" so I wanted to largely copy the look and feel of my proper Wendigo, which was done without use of inks or washes, but by drybrushing in various shades of grey. Luckily I still had most of the paints !

The first challenge though for the Snowstorm was making him. A fairly simple model, with no overly-fiddly parts... however this seems to have meant that the parts that do fit together , well, don't really fit together that well at all. After using liquid poly glue there were still plenty of large and visible gaps on the model, as well as a number of prominent mould lines which needed to be scraped off with a sharp scalpel. To fill the gaps I initially tried using a "paint" of diluted normal builders filler/plaster, which worked on some of the smaller gaps. The larger gaps I reverted to my substitute-for-green-stuff, wood filler. This comes ready mixed, and as long as you don't allow it to dry out too much is very easy to slop into small gaps. It dries really quickly, and can be sanded with a small file, like these ones on eBay UK.