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Come the Tossapocalypse – Ride of the Chaplain
++++I’M HERE TO SHUT IT DOWN, SUCKA! BUSTAS OF MANKIND! HEAR MY WORDS THROUGH THE BANGIN’ BASS O’ THE END TIMES!++++ ~Attributed to Chaplain T, 06.391 seconds before contact with the enemy lines.
It’s been a torturous journey my friends. Long have I struggled against the worst case of the F@#k-Its™ I have ever encountered. My motivation was all but completely gone and my will faltered. But by the Emperor, I finished it. I finally, finally, finished it….
Gentlemen! Behold! The pimpinest ride to ever groove across the battlefields of the 41st millennium! I give you: Chaplain T’s Tossapocalypse!
What started as a ridiculous joke, wheezed into life through a haze of bong smoke in between bouts of riotous laughter, is now a fully realized centerpiece. To be completely honest, I’m surprised I had it in me to finish the damn thing! This was not an easy project. Not by a long shot. The model fought me every step of the way. Every. Step. The decals got f’ed up. The airbrushing didn’t come out right and had to be redone, twice. I dropped a brush loaded with alcohol-based metallic paint onto the nearly finished exterior and had to spend much time fixing it. The oil washes didn’t behave at all. Pieces broke, mid paint session. I swear on my beard, this project went out of its way to make sure I felt as demotivated as possible. But here we are at last!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I f’ing hate painting. Its tedious, monotonous, and a pain in the ass when things go wrong (and they always go wrong). But when a project is finally over, and I can set my brushes down and pick up the camera for it’s glorious close up, it’s all worth it.
Speaking of glorious close ups, take special note of the poor sunovabitch in the backseat, Thaddeus the Bearer. Some of you might recognize the character from Part 2, who was heavily converted and scuplted out of Fantasy Giant’s peasant victim. This was a big undertaking for me, as I had never attempted sculpting something so involved. All things considered, I’m reasonably happy with the way the little bastard turned out. He looks appropriately terrified, caught between trying to perform his retarded battlefield role and certain death (at the hands of the enemy, or the Chaplain’s!).
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~Give it up for Ian gang – outstanding work!