I love Conan the barbarian. It is one of those films that no matter how many years have passed you will always find it enjoyable. So, when i saw this 75mm Thulsa Doom figure from Pegaso Models i just had to have it.
Normally on some models you can let your imagination run wild when painting them but this is one of those cases when you have to paint it exactly how he was since it was a character in a film, and a popular one at that :).
The face was done using scorched brown as a primer, giving it all a wash with brown/black ink mix, scorched brown again and finally scorched brown with a bit of white for highlights.
Working with a black undercoat the question was how do you get shadows when everything is black?. To do that first you have to mix black with flesh tone, this gives the black a softer tone whilst still maintaining the black colour for the figure. Then i drybrushed all the parts that were black. Different mixture of flesh tone was required to produce the different tones of black to create the main colour and highlight.
The metal was simply drybrushed using chainmail and then a little mithril silver for some highlights. The leather straps at the front are actually a dark green colour along with his gloves. This is to vary a bit from the all black and to accentuate the fact that he is also a thousand year old snake.
The snow part was done using baking powder believe it or not. Polystyrene is too thick to be realistic but baking powder has the right consistency to look real since snow is, after all, layers of fine powder stacked together. Get ready to make a mess though :).
The completed Thulsa Doom.
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