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He skittered through the pathways of the under-empire, excitement quickening his pace. Finally after four moons cycles had passed he had found what they had been searching for. After mounds of the masters warptokens and been spent, not with out the odd few hidden away for him self not sneak-steal no never from the master just kept in case yes yes. He had finally found it, even if he had had to make a pack with the diseased vermin and their sickly priest. He entered the vast warren of clan skabmore, his home, he headed down to the deepest lair.

Entering the lair he found the master and leader of the clan, sat on a throne built from the bones of the many defeated enemies of the clan. Behind the throne were the hulking furless forms of four brood-mothers testament to the clans and the leaders power. As he approached the throne he bowed his head in servitude, "master it is done I have found the scrolls which we sneak-searched for all this time".
"Good engineer Skreet, you have done well the horned rat will look upon you with favour in the coming days", said the leader. "I Krittit Scabmore shall rise in power beyond even the damned council yes yes much power".
A smirk spread across the warplock engineers face unseen by the master "yes master your fate awaits, their is just one thing master, I had to make pact-deal with the pestilent priest to get what we needed."
Krittit lashed out with his foot kicking the engineer across the snout of his rat like face, sending him sprawling across the floor. " You fool, you dare make pacts with out my consent," he snarled baring his fangs as he pressed the claws of his paw onto the engineers throat.
"But master......I sneak-tricked the plague priest yes yes, he thinks....... he summons his dark God........ not the horned rat master, he is a fool....... beneath your notice yes yes oh magnificent leader Skabmore." The engineer grovelled choking out the words.
"Hmmmm very well," the leader mutter stepping off the engineers throat. The engineer started to edge his way towards the lairs entrance, " Shall I make the preparations my lord we should leave soon if we are to be ready for when Morrslieb is next at its fullest." He said almost at the entrance. "Yes go." Snarled Krittit lashing out with his tail as he turned catching the engineer across the chest sending him stumbling out of the lair.



So i dicided to do a Vermin Lord for my skaven army but the GW model is a bit dated and i want mine to be impressive. I needed a center piece for my army as it is a massive horde army so i wanted something to tower above the rest of my models.

I decided to use the Balrog as i like its shape and it is really huge so i think its a real good starting point.

This is now becoming a whole skaven army blog as the Vermin Lord is going to be the centerpiece of quite a unique force if i do say so myself.

Any C&C is welcome and i will try to reply to any Questions.

so bellow is how far i have gotten first thing is to put the body together and cut down the secound set of holes where the wings would normally go.



Next was to stick on the head i used the dragon skull from the giant kit this has had the nose cut down the eyebrows reshaped and horns added the horns are from the fantasy ork banner top.



next i used the small flames from the Balrog base to create fur on the legs and back. these where then greenstuffed into the body to blend in.



I also glued on the arms and filled in the secound sets of holes.

Looks sweet, I'd like to see the rest of this project

Nice reuse of the flames!

So i have done some more work on the Vermin Lord, firstly i added the lower jaw this is also taken from the giant kit i added a plasticard bottom to it as its very easy to break becouse it only glues in one place.



i also used greenstuff to create some detail in the lowwer jaw and add a tongue i'm sorry about the crap pic but you can just see the tounge



next was to start on the massive amount of fur this thing will have, again in greenstuff, i have only done the right side so far as i will allow this to dry so i dont mess it up when doin the other side

Looking very good, I do hope you're going to greenstuff the massive frontal incisors to give it that rat identifier.

im thinkin of usin plasticard for thn but will do it en i start on the head im doin one half rat face one half skull like the GW model

Just don't give it beaver teeth.

So i have completed some more work on him

i added an Orb to his left hand becouse i thought it would look to empty with the doom glave being in the other. I did this with greenstuff and i also repositioned the fingers to clutch it as they are quite open, i did this by cutting little V's out of them abd bending them i then filled in the gaps with greenstuff.



I also started the sculpting of the head and added the bottom set off horns these are from the Balrog kit just cut down a bit.







I also added the rat teeth at the front with plasticard but this was after i had taken pics lol

next came the Doom Glaive i created this using the sword arm from the Balrog. I first cut down the flames then added three blades to the top these are from the Ork Boyz sprue but cut to diffrent lengths. I next added some plasticard to the side with little plasticard squares to act as bolts i then cut the handle off the back of the hand and added a length of brass rod.

So a lot of work has been done on my Vermin Lord and thankfully he is finished well the modelling is done just have to paint the beast now.

first up i finished sculpting his face and joint the lower jaw into the neck.



nect i covered up the scaley forarms with fur



and finally came the Doom Glaive i finished this by creating cloth around the handle where he holds it with plasticard, then i coverd the bottom half of the handle in greenstuff and run my sculpting tools along it to creat a wood grain effect, to end it all off i used the banner top from the plauge monks spure.



I also created a base for him this has a broken pipe made from brass rod with green stuff water coming out, a pillar from the Warhammer Fortifed Manor and cobble stones created out of plasticard im doing a kind of under empire sewer theme for my bases in my skaven army.



and here is a comparesion shot so you can see how big this monster really is.



on another note here is some picks of my converted Plauge Priest for the same army. he is made from a necromancer





you cant see it real well in the picks but the greenstuff coming out of the skulls is whisps of smoke this will count as his plauge censure in the game.

absolutly amazing conversions I can't wait to see how they look painted

I like this, excellent work. I think the sculpting will really show up well when painted.

I am mightily impressed with this, really looking forward to seeing it painted up.

Some things I've spotted:

- Right leg has a prominent join line.
- Elbows seem to have a thick border between skin and thick fur; maybe blur the line with thinning fur?
- Tail looks reptilian with the overlapping dorsal scales.
- No ears or whiskers? With the horns, I can see why ears could be tricky to incorporate, but it might be worth experimenting with piano wire around the snout...
- The globe. Without a 360° view, I can't see if this is just from the camera angles, but it doesn't look to me like the hand has a full grasp on it. Hold various objects - oranges, balls, etc - with one hand and compare your hand to the model (in particular, how far around the sphere your finger(s) go); if it matches, then put this point down to the camera's POV.

thanks for the suggestions lindsay40k

the joint in the right leg has ben filled in on the finished model,
the fur isthick near the elbows but the greenstuff has a peek in it and the underside is shaped like fur
im really tempter to add ears but your right would be tricky am thinking ones similar to the terrorgiest but laid flat, the reason i havent gone for whiskers is i dont think it would look right one the one side and not the other as im going for a similar style vermin lord as the GW model one half of the head is a skull,
i see what you mean by the sphere it doesnt look like a firm grasp because the front finger is more pointed but the back to fingers and thumb are flush with the sphere

hope this helps

So its been ages since i last did any thing on here but here goes lets get this project moving again. I am glad that i can show a lot of progress so firstly my plauge preist all painted.





next the actual genral of my army a Warplock Engineer





he has a body gard of 20 Stormvermin which excluding the Rat ogres will be the smallest unit in the army.





none of the banners or freehand work has been done yet as im gonna get the skaven heraldry book and do them all right




this unit will have wo attached Warpfire Throwers


next up is my unit of Plauge Monks for my Plauge Priest to go in. I have painted 20 so far but this is gonna be a unit 0f 40




i converted the Musician cause i didnt like the gong






i was gonna attach the oisend wind mortars to these but you cant so will give them to my slaves instead as it wount matter if the thing back fires hahahaah





and lastly although i will probs never use him it is a stunning model the IoB Warlord





i have also started a unit of Giant rats, i have built 16 and a pack master so far this is gonna be a unit of 40 though picks wen painted

Great looking stuff, Ive always loved Skaven, especially the new ones. Sadly they have the same problem (for me) as Dwarves...they are just too small, and I cant paint well enough to make them look good.

Sub'd Love the necromancer conversion... so little effort but the model looks so Skaveny!

mad4minis they are small lol but great minis to paint so much character but I'm doing a horde army so lots of practice painting hahhah

thanks henners91 it was really easy to do just the head from a Iob pack master and instead of the base i used a blank one with a bit of brass rod on as a pipe because the necromancer has a foot up then a little GS on the skulls for smoke and water coming from the pipe

the bases for this army are all cobble stones individually cut from plasticard i so need to find an easier way to do them hahahah

heres the next bit of my army a unit of Giant Rats with Pack Master there are 16 rats in this unit so far but am gonna bump them up to 40 soon.

Pack Master




group shot

another little update i have started doing a unit of Rat Ogers since i have 4 IoB Ogers im going to convert two of them

The first was quite simple i just cut the right arm and raised it then added an Oger Bull sword


the next had a bit more work to do i cut off the right arm then cut where it was bent upwars so i could straighten it out. i then removed the blade and replaced it with barrels from the empire outriders box to make a sort of ratling gun.
i then added the blade to the left hand along with a bit of the IoB packmasters staff to mage a knife, i also repostioned the tale.




they both still need a bit of green stuff and the first Rat Oger still needs a base but i will do this when i decide to do the finishing touches on my Vermin Lord

this all looks great, do you have a Abomination?

This looks absolutely fantastic, well done!

Excellent work so far. I always enjoy seeing Skaven projects. The balrog conversion is superb. Hail the great horned rat. *squeek*

thanks for the comments guys

JohnnoM - i don't have an abomination yet but I'm thinking of making one from either the Beastmen Jabbersythe or the Beastmen Ghorgon/Cygor kit but getting the main army sorted first as this army at 2000 points has 160 clan rats/slaves


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so i have done the greenstuff on my Rat Ogers and Vermin Lord. First up is the oger with the sword i even added some stich marks were it joins to the plastic.



next up the secound Rat Oger he has the most extensive work done some gap filling on the shoulder, and rebuilding the forearm.



lastly the last of the greenstuff to be done on my Vermin Lord, i added some ears



the next bit was to add a loin cloth he didnt really need it but i liked the idea of having somewhere to add my army colours.

two new Rat Ogers again made from the IoB figures no real conversion here i just made there heads face forwar by cutting away a bit of the neck and filling with greenstuff.





i also added some fur to the Vermin Lords thighs as i didnt like the scales on them

So my Instamold came today first time using this stuff but if heard good things from people on here. I decided it would be good to make my bases hopefully a lot faster then my current way of cutting out individual bricks from plasticard then glueing them on.

Anyway to start i first made 5 basese the way i usually do



after this i heated up the instamold and pressed it down on the basses once cooled and hard i then removed the bases and was left with the impressions of my plasticard brickwork



i then pushed in a thin layer of greenstuff and will see how they come out in the morning



i then used the bases i had made to start one of the first ranks of a Skavenslaves unit



here is also a pic of my finished Rat Oger unit



and my Vermin Lord is now primed and readdy to paint so pics of that later

Your green stuff work and painting is excellent! Nice to see a fellow Welshman

thanks Idols where about in wales you from

so another update firstly the instamold bases came out great the greenstuff is set and after supergluing it to the bases and adding my clanrat i think with a bit of sand and paint they are gonna look awsome and so much quicker to make then the plasticard ones where.



and my vermin lord got some paint today i started on the fur first as this is going to be mainly drybrushed i did it first so it wouldnt mess up anything else

first i give it a good layer of bestial brown


i then gave it a drybrushing of graveyard earth and then dheneb stone. I also gave the base a drybrush of first fenris grey then whent over with astronomican grey.




next i gave the skin area a good layer of tallarn flesh and did all the areas that will be rust or bone a layer of scorthed brown



when this was dry i gave the skin a wash with my special skin wash which is a 1:1 mix of scorched brown and chaos black watered down to a wash.

todays update begains with more bases i love how quick i can make these now



next a load of painting on the vermin lord i did a layer of bestial brown on the bone areas, claws and horns

and a layer of dark angels green on the warpstone



i then redid the areas of skin with talleran flesh leaving the washed colour in the recesses, aswell as doing the first layers of yellow on the banner/loincloth


i then finished the rusted metal areas and started on the brass


next was a layer of bleach bone on the bone, claws and horns


i then finished the warpstone areas by layering up with diffrent shades of green


i then finished up for the day by adding a 1:1 mix of hawk turquois and dark angels green wash to the brass areas to create a verdigras effect and an ogren flesh wash on the yellow



i might try writting up the army fluff for the army soon




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so i have been out of the hobby due to work and uni for the last 5 months haven't played or painted in about 4 months but i have recently had time to pick up my paint brush and forge ahead.

so in the last two weeks here is what i have done. i have done 35 of my skaven slaves with spears and the last 5 are on the painting block now



i know slaves cant have a banner in the game but i wanted to do one anyway so i used the ones from the IoB set that looks like old icons bolted together



i have used the models from the IoB set and the clanrat boxset with the least amount of armour on them to be my slaves, any armour they do have is painted as rusty metal where as my clan rats will have the bright yellow armour they do have the odd bit of yellow on shields and the banner





also painted up two of the ogers here is the first









and then the secound one









the spots and scars on the rat ogers and the slaves are painted to look infected to show the influence of the plague priest spreading through the more easily corrupted elements of the army