Scratch/custom soul grinder - Nurgle army WIP

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**tallmantim**

FYI - current project view...

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I like the soul grinder model, but despair that - especially for chaos - that these guys all look the same.

Which got me thinking - how could you make a custom one?

I have tried building the bottom part of a soul grinder leg, and have a potential donor piece for the basis of the body - a very old fantasy giant.

He is on a 40mm base and stands about 80mm high.

this would be in scale and provide a very different looking soul grinder - just worries about the amount of green stuffing I would need to do (I am a GS novice) plus whether I could make the dopey looking giant torso and head menacing.

As you may see from the scratch leg, I am playing around with using spue pieces as structure:

Thoughts?

Cheers

**Paul Atreides**

I want to see a little more before I put a real comment on this.

**mcfly**

Yeah, you're gonna have to change that model a ton. I mean, the arm with the club will probably be changed, and you might want to beef up the arms, and cut off the nose, but I can see it being done.

**enmitee**

i dunno, its quite ambitious of you.

but i'd rather pay 40-50$ to save the effort, more power to you though.

**tallmantim**

OK

Decided that the old giant just wasn't going to cut it as a menacing demon machine of chaos.

So, moving on decided to have a go at least at making a fully scratch built beasty.

Now, I'll say this early in the piece - this is a modelling project as I enjoy modelling. It won't look anywhere near as good as the original Soul Grinder - that is already an excellent model.

So, built a base for it with tubing, coat hanger, sprue and a hotglue coating:

Looking to create a nurglesque Soul Grinder - hence the glue on the barrel of the phlegm cannon.

Cheers

**Tomo009**

Wow it actually looks like a good skeleton so far.

**tallmantim**

OK - now with some milliput on there:

Next up once it's cured a little more is to put some green stuff over the top to smooth it out, add details etc. It is destined to be a fat soul grinder of Nurgle.

So - need to creat a close combat weapon for his left hand, add a close combat weapon to the reaper cannon on the right and create the walker base.

**Deadshane1**

Weird.

**Lint**

Dang, I was hoping you'd stick with the dopey giant. It would've been interesting. But still, looking good so far.

**tallmantim**

OK - started some green stuffing.

First time I've used it for doing more than filling gaps, so having to work it out as I go along.

**Lint**

Looks like he sneezed all over himself.... Very Nurgle appropriate I'd say.

**tallmantim**

Thanks Lint, will try to do some work on making the fat folds look more realistic.

Cheers

**tallmantim**

OK - add a close combat weapon to the reaper cannon:

And created a close combat weapon for the left hand (still needs to be molded in and GS'ed up):

So it's coming along OK overall - still lots of work to do before I get onto the walker part.

Cheers.

**kharndude**

that looks ok for right now.

**tallmantim**

Top part just about finished - will now move on to the walker platform and legs.

**anticitizen013**

Coming along quite nicely. I think if you add enough details with GS to completely cover the milliput, it should look excellent. The problem (well not really problem) with Nurgle things, I find, is they have so many diseases if there's any flat/blank spot it almost looks as though its missing something (some exceptions apply, of course). I look forward to seeing more progress!

**P4NC4K3**

*Vomits profusely* Nice work

**littlewood93**

Looking good it's really starting to take shape.

**typhus**

i cant wait to see what you do with the legs

**tallmantim**

Cheers

I took your suggestion and added some more contagion to him - additional pustules, a demonic face, torn flesh and exposed ribs.

**tallmantim**

Oh yeah - and you can see I've started work on a concept for the base of the walker.

Cheers

**typhus**

need some shots of his face

**Golden Eyed Scout**

Sweet.

**anticitizen013**

Definitely coming along nurgly (see what I did there?

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IMO it still needs more disease, but it's not finished yet so you have time, hehe. The spine thing looks a bit too robotic, which sorta gave me the idea (to give you) to make it so that spine is in fact robotic and a bit that connects the daemon to the legs.

Sorry if that's a poor description as to what I'm thinking, but I haven't slept in many hours... *passes out*

**Comrade Amadayeus**

it's definately interesting and not bad for a "GS novice" as you so call yourself. But personally i would try to make him more menacing, he kind of looks like he is trying to hug me.

**KingCracker**

I dig it! Ive always liked it better when people say screw buying the real deal Ill make one. Nice so far

**Dashofpepper**

Cool project man! Keep up the good work!

**tallmantim**

it's definately interesting and not bad for a "GS novice" as you so call yourself.

Thanks - second time I'm using green stuff - first time was for a couple of tiny bits on my scratch deff dread. That effort was abysmal as far as effect went and decided not to do any more.

I watched a couple of youtubes and listened to some advice on here and picked up a couple of things that make it much easier:

1. Use vaseline. I rub a bit onto my fingers (very lightly) when I start on it, that was it doesn't stick to me.

2. Get some tools - I bought a three tool set from my FLGS which is plenty.

3. Something I picked up myself - smear some vaseline thinly on paper and use this as your work area. You can rub a flat part on the paper to make it nice and smooth, and work on flat parts cutting them up etc on there and you can lift them back off. Just need to be careful that you will be able to stick it to the model later.

4. Overlaying. As you can see from my first GS effort on this thread, I put some final details on there as my first pieces. These should have been done last after I had completed all the other stuff. Additionally, it's cool to layer detail, such as the rib cage with torn flesh above (IMO anyway) - work out what you want to do and plan the moves required. This piece has been a bit chaotic as I've been learning as I go along.

Cheers

**tallmantim**

Anticitizen

Thanks for the constructive advice.

Went through and ripped off the spine part and replaced it as below (as well as adding a lot more detail):

**tallmantim**

Typhus

Here is the pic of the face as it stands: