Finished!

Welp… there is is, on Privateer Press Titan Gladiator, now finally finished after a month-and-a-half’s hiatus.  Couldn’t be arsed to fix some of the sculting issues – this was purely a painting exercise.  Hence the occasional glimpse of green stuff

Colour breakdown;

Armour - VGC Gunmetal, washed with thinned Black + Blue Ink, then highlighted with Gunmetal/Black/Blue mix, with successive highlights made by mixing in VGC Silver.  This made a nice contrast to the skin tone.  Gold elements were then washed with sepia ink.

Skin - VGC Desert Yellow + Beastly Brown, shaded with a Sepia/Brown ink mix, highlighted with the base colour + Off-White.

Clothes/Ropes - VGC Royal Purple + Blue Ink, shaded with more Blue + Black ink added to the mix, successive highlights with Cold Grey then White.  Ropes were Off-White, then thin coat (no other kind possible) of Yellow, washed with Sepia Ink.

Bones/Tusks/etc - Off-White, with thinned Sepia Ink.

Overall, I think the colour scheme works nicely.  Occasionally a bit hit and miss, but I like the result.  Up on the shelf now… probably back to Infinity next.

Crumble!

A peculiar beast, lairing in pots and ramekins, only emerging to… sod it… Crumble Make!

Recipe (such that it is)

Apples (one per person?  who knows?) – preferably red, bit sharp, or whatever’s lying around in the corner of the kitchen.  Diced, then peeled, or vice-versa if you’re feeling organised.

Flour / Unsalted Butter / Caster Sugar in roughly a 10:7:4 ratio, enough to cover the apples.

More Sugar - anything you have lying around, along with more Butter - enough to make a caramel for the apples.  Maybe about 20g each per apple… who knows?

Oats, if available and uneaten.

Under no account should preperation, or, god help, shopping for this recipe be performed at any stage.

1. Forget to pre-heat the oven to 200-degrees-ish.  Centigrade, unless you’re feeling experimental.  Kelvin, whilst a bold attempt, may not turn out quite right, but will indeed produce a crispy top…
2. Rub butter into flour. Keep rubbing butter into flour.  Wonder why you have a paste, panic, add more flour.  When it looks like breadcrumbs, stop, and wonder why you don’t just use breadcrumbs.  Ponder the mysteries of life, then mix in sugar and some oats.  Enough to break up the landscape.
3. Take apples, look in fridge for lemons or lemon juice, fail, then cut up small.
4. Heat up butter and sugar in frying pan until the point it starts to turn brown, throw in apples and pray.  With luck, the pan will be re-useable.  When the apples have started to caramelise, add a bit of cinnamon until distinctly brown.
5. Put apple in buttered ramekins or containers or whatever you have.  Preferably kitchen ware, preferably oven save.
6. Put crumble on top of apple, sprinkle water.
7. Put in (hopefully warm) oven, for somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes… with luck, you’ll end up with pudding.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve.

Eat with spoon.

GLORY!