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So, just a smallish note here, I´ve had mixed feelings about the metal Poison Wind Globadiers for a long time. And when I saw the new models being released I knew that I couldn´t bring myself to field them with such ugly old models as those globadiers.

So I decided to see what a little greenstuff could do, when applied to the (just) outdated clanrats. I´ve chosen the ones with the cloth collar, since they seemed best suited for the job. And I should say right now, that these are not done in any way. Their tanks are the shape and size I want, but need loads of detail. The only thing that´s pretty much done, is the mask.

This is a first for me, so I´l lbe happy to take aboard suggestions and ideas for where to go with them. Oh yeah, The masks take me about an hour to do, I´ve done four rats to this stage so far, and I´m aiming to do at least ten of these, hopefully a full 15 rat unit.. Monday night sculpting at the FLGS till christmas I guess.

And now, so you can actually comment on something, piccies!

Waw, this is seriously awesome!
Rats with masks. Great. Keep up the good work

i am in awe. really good work.

Hey, thanks guys. I´ll be working on these tomorrow night again, so hopefully I´ll have something for you after that.

I´m currently drawing up some sketches for a globe mortar. Not sure if they´re worth it, but I can´t very well make my own Globadiers and not have a mortar, right?

Looks very good, just scratch/scuplt some runes onto the tanks etc and your done!

Btw as your using the cloth hooded ones, It kind of reminds me of something like either the yuri initiates from Red Alert 2, or the wastehound helmets from fallout 3

Great WIP Xan', cant wait to see your Skaven army when it is battle ready

Hey Aurelion, thanks. Got my hands (paws?) on some stormvermin yesterday, and they are absolutely stunning models!

I´ve still got a ways to go with this, but I just might be bringing home a Warhammer army this christmas...

The rats got some more work last night, but have ended up in my FLGS´s cabinets for a bit, they needed some WIP greenstuff work to show off. No worries, I need to start on the next set anyways...

Leigen Zero: I did some runes and riveting on the tanks last night, nothing fancy, just a skryre rune on one, and the basic horned rat symbol on another. And yeah, they do have a bit of Yuri´s acolytes to them...

Great news about the Skaven army. I am pretty sure we can arrange some games of fantasy (or 40 k or necromunda or BFG )

Looking forward to seeing more WIP's of your army

I´ll try to oblige some time this weeek. Not too much to show yet, still in the stage where I´m testing color schemes and such.

I do have one unit of clanrats done, and another started. I´ll need to model up at least one globe mortar as well, those things look good as well, plus they´ll go well with the globadiers!

Okay, the promised update is here!

I´ve taken snaps of all the skaven I´m working on at the moment, bar the globadiers, since these are still at the store...

Firsty, there are the clanrats. Of these, I have a finished unit of 40, and a unit that´s far from done, also 40 strong. These guys are the ones I´m working on when I feel like it. Paint a few up now and then type of thing.

The Clanrats have a banner design that I saw in the second edition Warhammer rulebook. It was that book which first inspired me to go with skaven, and I thought I just had to work it in to the army somehow.

The Jezzails are next. If these weren´t so expensive I´d always use a maxed out unit... I´ve got three being painted up, two more on the way.

And of course, the ratling gun. A bit of an impulse buy when I got it, it just looked too cool.

Most importantly for me at the moment, is this first block of 20 Storm Vermin. These guys look incredibly cool, and are so much bigger than the clanrats. I cano nly agree with others on the board, who have commented that their shields have nowhere to go, but I´ll try to spread some around the unit, for the look of the thing.

I decided that these guys were too cool to leave unaltered, so I had a go at making one of them a bit more "Skryre´esque". He´s gotten an eye augmentation, a Warlock Upgraded weapon and his shield has had runes of Skryre added aswell. I may do more, or just drop other things around the unit, to hint at their ties with the Warlock Clan.

Finally, the Warlock that´s been sitting on my desk for a year or more, which is now getting to closer to finished-ness. Mostly included him to show the colors that I´m going for.

The army looks great so far

I am guessing you are building a Skryre army, right?

Great greenstuffing work! I like that you made a more steampunk-esque skaven army.

Thanks for the kind words guys! Yeah Aurelion, going for a definate Skryre feel to this army.

I´m looking forward to the release of the Screaming Bell, I´m gonna try to see if I can steampunk that up as well.

Darth Bob, thanks, the GS work is a lot easier now that I have proper tools.

I´m trying to make a really steampunk´ish army, I´ve been inspired by the new look of the Doomwheel to go really techy and dark.

Cool conversions man.

Nice conversions, I particularly like the Warlock augmented weapon

Nice

Looking great man. I love these rats :-P

The GS work is phenominal. In addition to runes and stuff on the tanks, I'd go for some rivets too :-P

I got some more GS work done today, finished up the work on the Warlord model today, I may add some techy bits to his shield, but not sure..

I want to represent their "Technology = Magic" concept as much as I can, thusly the cabling, and this is also why I´m considering techifying his shield.

@empchild: Thanks man, this army is more lighthearted thatn my Krieg stuff, which is a nice diversion for me. I´m really gonna go to town with conversions and such, I want a sniper Warlock, at least one Globe mortar, and all kinds of stuff like that.

@Flashman: Yeah, the conversion turned out better than I dared hope, it got quite a few comments at the FLGS today as well. I´m still considering putting my warlord on a Litter, this would mean more conversion fun, but I want to keep the techy look and feel of the force.

@grisnag: Thanks man! Good to see some more people from the Isles in these forums.

@Pherion: Thank you, I was positively surprised at the level of detail on the new models, but I´m still having doubts about the new clanrats...
I really feel like I´m making headway with GS these days. Rivets have been added to two Globadiers, and one has had runes added. They´re just so tiny! I mean, for some stuff I´ve used plasticard and an .8mm holepunch, but those are too big for this!

So it takes time.

Sorry, no photo update tonight, didn´t bring my camera to the store... I´ll try and get down there tomorrow, may bring the camera then.

Youre welcome! Where did you get the hole punch? Its a great idea, and I'll have to get one if I decide to do some converting (which I probably will soon)

I got the hole punch at a crafts store here, a place that specializes in leather and tools for leather, they had all different sorts of sizes and I grabbed the smallest they had.

When you start doing conversions I hope you´ll show us the pictures as well.

Oh I will :-P. They won't be nearly as good as yours! I'll just be doing small adjustments to marines ><

So, after a bit of a long wait, here´s a small update on the army. I´ve gotten some small games (1500Pts) done, had a draw and a loss so far, but both were against experienced players, so I´m okay with it.

I´ve almost assembled my Doomwheel. I´ve done some conversion work on it, mainly some more sensible cabling for the zappers and some suspension for the warlocks cage.

I´m working on a boiler and some stuff for the back of the wheel, will use it instead of the guy steering/pumping at the back, since I don´t much care for him.

Oh, and now there are seven Globadiers, four finished and three on the way. Closing on the halfway mark...

Pictures soon. I promise.

Here´s the promised Picture Update. As I said I´ve been working on changing the design, adding a boiler and such. I changed the blades on the front, thought it seemed silly that all six of them would be identical. The cabling for the lightning guns has been replaced as well, with GS cabling.

Other than this, some minor things have been changed, trhe boiler is still very WIP. Rivets, chimney cone and stuff still to come.



I´m still working on my remake of the globadiers. Four of the little blighters are complete, but they take a lot of time to make...




The Jezzails are about 90% completed, need to finish the horned rat symbol on the leader. Oh, and the last two are still on the way, gahh!



The ratling gun that will accompany my clanrat units is also 90% finished. It still needs a bit of work on the basing. These guys are great, having destroyed a charging unit of Squig Hoppers in a firing frenzy. Brrraaaaaaatatatatat!



And finally, a picture of the next skaven unit. A 40 strong pack of slaves. So far they´ve been undercoated and basecoated. Will try to see if I can finish them to gaming quality tomorrow.

Okay then. Got some more work done today, including starting on my very own Poisoned Wind Mortar. Now I was thinking: What would skaven use to lob big gas globes across the field of battle? It would have to be lightweight to move and fire. It would have to have some kind of force to propel the globes. And it would most likely be copied from other races. So, having recently played against a goblin army with a doom diver, I figured, why not just steal the giant slingshot concept, and improve upon it?

And with that, I started making this contraption, namely the Globe lobber. As you can see it still needs some work, but I think it could work. Both rats will have gasmasks, the front one will have his head tucked as low as he can, hoping not to be shot in the back.

Well, it seems like I´m talking to myself these days...

Anyways, here´s an update. I´ve gotten more work done on the Globe Mortar. The crew are shaping up, still need to do gas masks for them, and finish their robes. Also need to figure out what to do for air tanks.



I think the poses work, the front guy leaning into the sling, and the rear guy hauling on the slingshot.



The left arm of the shooter has a hole at the elbow. I´m trying to make them as rough as I can, again, this is very much a work in progress, so all comments and criticism are welcomed.

Also, I made a couple of banner poles for objective markers. Not sure what they´ll be used for, but I wanted to make something different.


The Banner pole is a piece of aluminum pipe, and slots into a slightly larger piece of pipe in the base.

As ever, comments, ideas and criticism is gladly taken aboard.

Oh, Xanthos! How you frustrate me with how cool your conversions are!

That said, I like your take on the Poison Wind Mortar. Personally, I was just planning on taking a plastic IG mortar, using some wire to look like rope, and tying/harnessing it to the back of a Clan Rat. Adding the GS gasmasks, though, is definitely thematic. Have you found a decent way to do it quickly yet? And if so, can you write up a quick tutorial on it? It'd be a big help for us Skryre fans out here.

Awesome, im speachless.

Hey guys, thanks a lot.

@Death By Monkeys: Heheh, I try.

I´ve seen quite a few IG mortar conversions, some okay, others look like "a mortar next to rats"... The gasmasks were tough at first, but I´ve got it down to four steps now. I´ll try making a tutorial at some point, either as part of this blog, or on it´s own. I wouldn´t say I make them that wuickly, but way better than at first.

I badly want to see if I can do something with new-style clanrats. So far I´ve put off buying them, since I´m worried that they´ll be too rigidly posed, but I think I´ll give it a whirl soon.


I got a little more done on the team, the gasmask on the helper guy is almost done, needs hoses and eyepieces. Also got quite far on their robes today, tomorrow the hunt for globes begins!






Two shots of the weapon team at their current stage. Still need to figure out where their air tanks and ammo is going to fit.





And two closeups, showing the helper more clearly. The GS work is kinda roug at this close range, but remember, this is waaaay larger than the actual model.

I am shifting this to blogs as its more appropriate.

Oh, thanks Frazzled. Was thinking about asking someone to move it.