So there is a closer look at a higher resolution cropped pic of the Swarmlord - looks pretty good, except for the glaringly obvious crappy putty work on the tail, but some of the other work is good enough not to notice.
Here is a close-up of the face - I think my detail work is pretty decent on the painting, and the gloss varnish on the armored headpiece looks pretty damned good. You can't tell I cut and glued on the scissory bits on the mouth from another model (a Starship Troopers bug, actually) and puttied up the smaller second horn. This is some of my better work, I think. I like the yellow glaring eye!
This arm shows some of my better work as well. This was originally a left-handed lash whip - I cut off the whip and puttied on a bone sword, as well as cutting and reorienting the dangly bits under the arm from a right arm of a model to this left one. Looks pretty seamless, huh? Not perfect, if you compare it to the right side of the model, you will notice slight inconsistencies, but close enough for government work.
This is an extreme close-up of the upper left arm. I severed a right arm at the elbow, rotated it, reattached it, and cut all the stuff off of one side and put it on the other side of the arm. the only thing you really notice is the oval bit on the forearm which is not perfectly sanded down - but since it is actually only about 4mm by 2mm, who'll notice?
Top view, so you can compare the left and right arm - the right is stock, the left is a right arm cut to crap and rearranged to look like a left arm. I think I did a good job, but there are some minor inconsistencies, as I mentioned before. Principle among these is the presence of a "cable" in the crook of the right elbow where there is none on the left elbow.
Ugh - an extreme closeup of the crappiest part of the work. That tail joint needs to be sanded and repainted. I will do it at some point. See ya later.
