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I guess its settled then I will go for the loincloth, I have made a determination to not use fur anywhere on the model, not a fan of the "yeti" look.

@ghosty - I've seen some pics of a brood mother but I can't think of a way of using one iin the army, I will already end up with a verminlord that I can only use in 1 in 10 games

Dang both my ideas shot down.

Should look immense though, will keep following your scuplt - even if it doesn't have teats, or fur....or...

For the Daemon: how will it be armed and dangerous?

Lol, sorry Manaknok it's not personal ( how could it be personal? I only have your avatar to go on and so I think of you as an anthropomorphic Egyptian deity with the head of a mongoose typing away at his computer )

I guess I'm just not a furry teats kind of guy

As for the Daemon I will be giving him the Glaive from the pic in the skaven army book, I figure that can stand in for a daemon weapon but I will have to have a good look through the daemon codex for which powers and marks to give him though nurgle will probably be an appropriate choice.

Haha. Don't worry....I wasn't offended at all by it, I didn't mean to hijack the discussion either....

I've never actually seen inside the Skaven Codex, but I looked up a Glaive and that would look pretty cool (as I type now I recall he is already armed with one!).


Will be watching with a keen eye for the markings...

M

Took some time tonight to do the loincloth and decided to take pics to prove I actually am doing something!

First off I used a quick setting epoxy to form a base for the GS



I then added a skin of Gs and gave it a few ripples and tears, I wanted it to look ragged, but damn in these pics it looks pretty mangled.



I then added a rat skull from the pommel on Squeek headtaker's sword and a couple of teeth made of head spines from a kroot as a bit of decoration.






C&C welcome

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Looks really good Blackhand!

Adds some nice detail to quite a bare area.

Just stumbled across this posy. I love grey seer conversion, very dynamic! I am looking forward to more of your work, it is very inspiring.

That first pic of the decoration.....
Before I read the description.....
It almost looked like a.....

Thanks guys,

@hadoukenAenger - Wrong, so wrong

So I had a scrounge in my bits box....and found... a plasmagun!

I did some drillin' and choppin" and ended up with this




Glued in a chunk of sprue



found the sharpest knife I had and cut facets into the warpstone



and if my pics weren't so goddam dark you would be able to see it

At least I now know that I can convert a plasmagun to a "wyrdgun" in less than half an hour.. sweet!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Nice job on the wyrdgun, are you going to add something else on the gun (teeth or small animals skulls) ?

The loincloth of the verminlord is great with the skull and Kroot spikes, yet I'm not sure about the belt, there's something that doesn't seem right with it, unfortunately I can't point exactly what (sorry ).

Anyway, this is going to be an amazing model, great job!

I know what you mean HyenaJoe, I had a thought on the way to work today and I think I will peel off the belt and find myself some jewellers chain to replace it. The belt was done with the same method I used for my Sabre Legion Marine's ornaments and it's just not quite right.

Very slick conversion Blackhand... you should make a mold of the finished product so you can cast them! Though... don't know if you'll really need that many plasmas to be worth the effort.

Aw heck... do it just for the fun of it!

Lol, I have a pack of six coming from GW unfortunately they are also metal but I think I can convert up six of them no worries.

The main problem I have now is to decide between Melta Vets or Plasma Vets. I might just have to go with a squad of each and maybe a command squad with a general and four Plasma Vets, that always makes marine players hesitate before charging in

Go for Plasma!!!

Never underestimate the determination of a force that is so bat-sh*t crazy that it will arm it's best troops with weapons that will, on average... kill most of them by back-firing every battle.

I was searching around the site the other day and I had a thought...surely the Horned Rat would have some human followers/fanatics in the 40k universe, no? These models from the Necromunda range would fit well with your army, I think.





Just an idea.

Edit: Also, this guy.

Gitsplitta wrote: Never underestimate the determination of a force that is so bat-sh*t crazy that it will arm it's best troops with weapons that will, on average... kill most of them by back-firing every battle.

Of course, but...

1. I cannot resist having Rapid-fire, Str 7 AP 2 weapons!!!
2. Plasmaguns have one of the most fantastic look of the 40k weaponry!!!
3. The overheating & probabilities to hurt oneself is so much like Skaven...

Some even whisper, in the darkest Mechanicum vaults of Mars, that the much-revered plasma weapon STCs were created by some weird beings, with awful rat-like features, that called themselves Skaven Warlock Engineers... Or so I have heard...

But shhhhhh... "Thee shan't take heed to mere rumours and madmen ramblings..."

LOl, Yggdrasil you are quite right, Skaven would have no problem with a fellow soldier's gun exploding, I can hear the chittering sniggers now...

I think I will still keep a troop of melta vets though for popping tanks but otherwise plasma all the way!

Oh and Darth Bob, I am staying away from humans in the force at all, though I do own a set of the necromunda ratskins cause they rock

I did consider using a bunch of the giant rat zombies as sentinels though...thyen I realised how much it would cost!

Blackhand....yeah...I agree with the human follows (see page 1)! They will look great...as I have never seen the Caller on a table top (or in real life...)

What is the eh...Rat Dreadnought? Sentinel? I have never seen it before!

The scuplt is nice. I like.

Very nice work you've got going, bro. I'd like to see an entire army WIP pic.

manoknok wrote:
What is the eh...Rat Dreadnought? Sentinel? I have never seen it before!

That's a Mordheim Skryre Rat Ogre... Sure is nice!!!

Yes. Yes. It is.

Liking the work on the vermin lord, I wouldn't really know how to run him either (maybe take a look at fantasy stats, and come up with your own).

Gotta say those warpstone plasma guns look very effective, and such an easy conversion,

oh and for the person that asked, the vermin lord's doomglaive multiplies each unsaved wound into d3 wounds!

Don't panic! I'm still working on the 40skaven, have just been distracted with study and a small side project I am working on for a fellow dakkite.

This weekend is our gaming club day and I should be picking up the chaos warrior helms from a friend and next week the two IoB Rat Ogres will arrive and will get the Ogryn treatment so I will have some more pics and WIPS for you in the long wait for my borrowed hirst arts moulds

Cheers

BLACKHAND

I am inspired. I'm going to have to pick me up a box or two of IoB and then get to work on my 40k Skaven army... when I get the money that is...

Yeah I feel the money woes, I had to sell my tau army so that I could afford to start this one

Haha, that Rat sentinal would look the awesomes tho!!! go on treat yourself!!!

@tortured robot - I actually have a bunch of sabretooth tiger skeletons in the right scale made of plastic as well as three sets of sentinel legs.....but I need to finish the list I started first!

So todays Gaming Club day was a mixed bag, on one hand one of the organiser ( a friend of mine and fellow Dakkite Andyfish) put a link to this plog in the monthly email so there was a lot of interest in my skaven which was gratifying and there was much showing off and bigheadedness On the other hand the guys from Redzeed Gamers ( the model store that brings their product from a town 2 hours to sell at our club day, thanks guys!) were unable to come so I was not able to get my hands on my IG special weapons :( luckily they are going to send them to me free of charge next week ( thanks again guys!)

Despite this I had an excellent time as it was our annual Swap Meet and I was able to get my hands on a drop pod and 5 lightning clawed terminators for my Sabre Legion marines, but thats a story for another blog

"Thats nice BLACKHAND, but what about the horns for the VerminLord?" I hear you say.


Well I could go on (no really I could) but I think I will let the pics do the talking...












So please keep in mind I added the horns while sitting in a poorly lit community hall talking with my mates so it is not by any finished but it is definitely getting there and I am quite happy with how it looks, I like the how close to the illustration in the army book it came out.

At this point I am going to spend a bit of time sanding and cleaning up the GS work before I get into painting as I am notorious for rushing the end of a project and not being happy when its finished bear with me though it won't be tooooo long before I get paint on this hellbeast.


C&C welcome as always!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

lookin goood


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oh, I love the idea of using the ratskins as human renegades - thats cool and adds a lot of character - And the giant robotic rat is nice - where's it from?

Holy sh!t the Verminlord is just amazing!