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!WARNING! This tutorial is can be dangerous to your home, your person, and your minis. Beware!

What you will need:
1) Thumb Tack, Razor Blade, or Large Sewing Needle
2) Painted Plastic Mini (preferably one that was primered in black, or other dark colors.)
3) Strong Threshold of Pain (just in case!)

Unlike my last tutorial, we will not purposefully inflict pain on ourselves this time. There may, however, be a time when you wish your finger had not failed it's invulnerable save.

Let us start with my tool of choice: the "Thumb Tack". Common, every day, hanging on office walls or bedrooms; thumb tacks.

Take a few troops with you to work and give them bullet holes or knife wounds with a well placed gouge, or nice long scrape. Apply enough pressure to break through the top layer of paint, leaving the blackened remains of primer. Dig in deeper and leave gray scars of raw plastic such as these Termagants show:


Think of the tack as both a paint brush and an eraser. Remove pesky mistakes with a bullet hole, or dig out the over brushed coloring on the spaces between rib joints. Or even just draw cracks in the carapace. (click on the above picture to go to gallery and zoom in on the blue Gant for better look at bullet holes and cracks)

The thumb tack is my personal favorite because I can use them at work. As long as the bosses dont catch me, I can spend hours carving little details into things.

Hobby Knife or Razor Blade
Slice Freddy Krueger claw marks into space marines!



Each have teeth marks around their feet from pesky creepy crawlers! (click image to zoom)

Large Sewing Needle
We will leave off with my second favorite. The same kind of feel as a thumb tack. But you can get under the paint easier with it, and leave the primer still in good shape. You can also use this or a thumb tack to carve runes or letters out of the paint.

Cultist of the Omnipotent Mind's Eye

Wire Cutters

The legs I will save and use for Genestealer Hybrids later.

The hand is still a good extra bit to keep around and save for a rainy day.


!WARNING! This tutorial is can be dangerous to your home, your person, and your minis. Beware!

Might be a bit more manly to use a Machete?

Good ideas here. Interesting idea for making runes... hmmm.

haha machete! thats awesome! btw NakedBatBoy, im psyker_9er's daughter...i love watching him get all crazy with sharp objects, he gets the funniest look on hiis face!

Allways a fan of using flames to change poses
However, i prefer to use a candle (can use both hands then, rather than dropping a lighter)

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:Allways a fan of using flames to change poses
However, i prefer to use a candle (can use both hands then, rather than dropping a lighter)

I think you meant to post this in response to his other tutorial?

And I can understand that EmpressR, pointy objects can affect us all very strongly.

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:Allways a fan of using flames to change poses
However, i prefer to use a candle (can use both hands then, rather than dropping a lighter)

Hey PAL! Wrong tutorial!

This one is for Sharp Objects. Not flame producing objects!

But I will say it again though.
If you want to use a candle, great, lighters can be positioned in different angles to get to those hard to reach areas, where as a candle only points upwards.

For the topic of this discussion, if you want to talk about heating a metal tool, to make a plasma blast bullet hole effect, then I would agree that it would be good to keep a candle lit and handy near by so you can heat the metal tool as needed. You would want to avoid getting the metal too hot, or it might burn a hole clean through to the other side.

EmpressRosaline wrote:haha machete! thats awesome! btw NakedBatBoy, im psyker_9er's daughter...i love watching him get all crazy with sharp objects, he gets the funniest look on hiis face!

That funny look is my "serious face", I seriously dont want to poke a hole in my finger! Especially now that we are talking about heating the tool first. Or machetes!

You silly people, you don't use a feeble machete, you use a chainsaw that you carved from the skull of a Demon-Spawn Storm Dragon that you slew with a fang you pried from the jaws of a live Warp-Breed Chaos-Tainted Carnifex using only one of your dismembered, sharpened ribs you tore from your own body using a chainsaw carved from the skull of a....I think you get the picture.

HadoukenAvenger wrote:You silly people, you don't use a feeble machete, you use a chainsaw that you carved from the skull of a Demon-Spawn Storm Dragon that you slew with a fang you pried from the jaws of a live Warp-Breed Chaos-Tainted Carnifex using only one of your dismembered, sharpened ribs you tore from your own body using a chainsaw carved from the skull of a....I think you get the picture.

I'm not sure I know what that is, but I WANT ONE!!

Might be a bit of overkill for carving small bullet holes or knife wounds on plastic minis. BUT I WANT ONE!! If you do try and use it on your minis, I'm betting that the AP value is better than your finger's armor if you miss. There will be no cover saves for your knuckles, and no invulnerable saves can be taken for your hand if it gets chopped off.

Nothing is overkill when you're a real man. Or an Ork. I've found that if I send out my grots to do it first, I can generally come in wearing my Mega-Armour and finish up the job. Plus my hand has a 1+ Invulnerable Save, severed or otherwise.

Oh, I never said overkill was a bad thing. By no means. The whole of the Ork army would not have made it as far as they have, if it wasn't for one lovely, simple, and little word: Overkill

Nids as well, are no strangers to the concept of over kill:*cough* Doom of Malan'tai *cough*

Now, before we carve on the mini, and say we wanted to first pre-heat the chainsaw that you carved from the skull of a Demon-Spawn Storm Dragon that you slew with a fang you pried from the jaws of a live Warp-Breed Chaos-Tainted Carnifex using only one of your dismembered, sharpened ribs you tore from your own body using a chainsaw carved from the skull of a.... would you use a lighter or a candle?

Personally, I'd use the Napalm Gland cut from the very throat of O'ngor'ath The Great Old One in conjunction with 10,000 gas bottles and a live hand grenade strapped to a gas oven.

But a lighter will probably suffice.

These will be the best modeled and painted obliterated/nonexistent models ever!

NakedBatBoy wrote:These will be the best modeled and painted obliterated/nonexistent models ever!

I can't wait to see all the fine details of that pile of plastic dust shavings. Post pics when you get a chance HadoukenAvenger, I want to see your skills with the chainsaw that you carved from the skull of a Demon-Spawn Storm Dragon that you slew with a fang you pried from the jaws of a live Warp-Breed Chaos-Tainted Carnifex using only one of your dismembered, sharpened ribs you tore from your own body using a chainsaw carved from the skull of a.... I bet that 1+ invulerable save your hand has will come in... handy

Oh, you didn't.....


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BTW, Wtf does the tyra-marine count as?

I will be making a (p)blog for the infested this weekend. Then, in the name of mindless self indulgence, I will self comercial plug here

The story on them is: The larger Tyranids drag a whole corpse back to the digestion pool and just toss them in, armor and all, to see what comes out... Or is there more to the story than just that??? dunnn dunnnnnnnn dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

As for what they "Count-as" they take the place of Termagants usually. The blue one, pictured above, I sometimes use as a warrior since he is holding a deathspitter that you cant see in the pic. Or I use the old Genestealer Cult codex from way back in the day, and they are Brood-Brothers / Hybrid Warriors...

I had fun with sharp wire cutters to make them. Chop off the marine head and arms, add Nid parts, put into blender, dice, WAAAGGH-LAAA!

Thanks for the idea, I will post pics of things I have chopped up on this tutorial as well. Since wire cutters are also "sharp objects" to have fun with.



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Wire Cutters

This Bolter was purchased from the standard 3x Space Marine booster pack, it runs $8.25 USD before Uncle Sam gets his tax cut. You will want to keep the hand, because it comes in.... handy.

Oh, you didn't.....

Speaking of BA conversions with sharp objects




Pocket knife is weapon of choice.
The print on my thumb is no longer recognizable, manly enough for you psyker?

Great combi weapon conversions!!!
Manhood +1

Fingerprints are overrated anyway...

Thanks, still gonna try out some fire with plague marines.
Oh. Drills put some good holes in something to represent the 'feel no pain' rule. I'll get a pic of what I mean soon.
Needless to say, my Plague champion has a hole all the way through him.

No pictures, but I had to register a new thumb print with the Army. I used to use an actual scalpel. I'll leave it to the imagination.

CrashUSAR wrote:No pictures, but I had to register a new thumb print with the Army. I used to use an actual scalpel. I'll leave it to the imagination.

You sir are manlier then I.
If Psyker doesn't mind...
Manhood +1
Oh...and uhh....
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

zadelistol wrote:

CrashUSAR wrote:No pictures, but I had to register a new thumb print with the Army. I used to use an actual scalpel. I'll leave it to the imagination.

You sir are manlier then I.
If Psyker doesn't mind...
Manhood +1
Oh...and uhh....
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

I dont mind at all, you called that correctly: Manhood +1 indeed

If you cut yourself up so bad the Army can't even recognize you, that is Manhood +1 to say the least... Maybe +2