BLACKHAND'S 40K Skaven

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**Trilobite**

Thats looking pretty cool

**monkeytroll**

Shaping up very nicely there

**whalemusic360**

I cant even see it a venom anymore, very nice. Also looking forward to some Sabre Legion love.

**Hyenajoe**

I like the way you've placed the horns, and the proportions. The weapon is great too!

**Munch Munch!**

Awesome verminlord! Love the horns.

**Anung Un Rama**

That looks pretty cool. A bit plain maybe, he could use some more bitz.

Oh and you should totally use that Clan Skyre Rat Ogre, maybe as that one Ogryn Bodyguard. Norg something.
And how can any self-respecting Skavenplayer not use that giant undead rat-thing from Necromunda?

**BLACKHAND**

Thanks for the responses guys, glad you like him!

@Whalemusic - Don't worry I haven't forgotten the Sabre Legion I've just been distracted by rats, so many rats!

@Anung Un Rama - ATM the Only thing i am thinking of adding is a a necklace of teeth and skulls like the illustration, I kind of like the fact he isn't covered in spines, armour or sores like a normal Daemon Prince but if you have a cool suggestion I could be persuaded

As for the Undead Rat, I think I would rather build one myself but again, its a project for another day!

**Scarper**

That head looks ace, you've managed to get some fantastic clear ridges on it, and it looks really believably like an animal skull - no easy feat for an imaginary beast! How do you get such amazingly clean lines using GS? I've been trying to do something similar for aaages

Keep up the great work!

**Trilobite**

Blackhand, are you going to at least sculpt some fine hair or somthing, or is he going to be a giant bald goat horned rat?
Not that thats bad neccesarily, disturbing is probably the right direction here

**BLACKHAND**

@scarper - I use paint blenders, they are like paint brushes with silicone tips, to blend GS together and smooth out cracks and , I 'm a little ashamed to say, the tip of a hobby knife. I probably should get some better tools but they have worked alight so far.

@trilobite - I imagined him as having the look of corpse-like flesh( a nod to Papa Nurgle) and the skull is stripped of skin, just a bare goat skull on top of a walking corpse. At least that's what the illustration said to me, I realize it is very different to the current Verminlord model but they suck anyway

**Trilobite**

I see, thinking about it, rats and disease are go together pretty well. This should look very interesting and rather sinister. What pleases me even more is that instead of having all the ugly sores and pus that most typical nurgle models have, it will be much more clean, even elegant, like a true virus. Me like!

**BLACKHAND**

Thats the thing , there is more to decay and rot then pus, sores and exposed intestines!

Check out Anung un Rama's nurgle blog

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/235233.page

about four posts down is a pic of his converted plaguebearers, a nice example of nurgle that isn't fat and bloated.

**WaaaaghLord**

Dear BLACKHAND

Kindly stop being so awesome.
You're putting the rest of us to shame.

Sincerely
WaaaaghLord

On another note, that big rat is looking awesome. It doesn't even look like Venom anymore, at first I was sceptical. You have proven me wrong.

**seafox**

Keep up the good work!

**BLACKHAND**

Hey people! Another post to apologise for lack of progress, study, RL and all that.

Good news is that I have arranged to trade some of my custom SM marine pads for some lascannons with another Dakka member and I think I will be able to change my list slightly.

What do you all think about dropping the three sentinels in exchange for a Vendetta?
3 slow moving single lascannons VS 3 T/L Lascannons moving much faster that can carry troops.

I kind of have a visual in my mind of a talller version of the other vehicles with a much larger chunk of rock hanging below it, like an inverted mountain almost.

@Waaghlord -

Dear Waaghlord,

I apologise unreservedly, I sometimes forget to hide my awesomeness from lesser mortals

totally taking the piss,
BLACKHAND.

Glad you like the Verminlord, there were moments I didn't think it would work too but I am happy with it now.

@seafox - Thanks man, you too!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**Leigen_Zero**

I'd say stick with the sentinels, so you can have lascannon-toting rat ogres stomping around the place!

**BLACKHAND**

WooHoo!!!!

IaB Rat Ogres arrived today as well as the IaB master moulder and the Special Weapon packs!

I have made a start on the Rat Ogryn but have limited time to work on them tonight.

I've got to say I really feel that GW should have updated their plastic Rat Ogre box rather than re-realsing a bunch of ancient looking metals cause these new ones are beautiful!!

Well I hope to get some pics up tonight, till then...well...nothing really

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Ok made some progress with the new Rat Ogryns, first up is the sword arm guy,

I decided on a heap swap between them, it allowed me to do a bit of rework on the other guys neck. The choice of which arm to graft the ripper gun onto was pretty simple

For the other fella I had to cut his arm at the elbow and turn it to the right, I also didn't like the way both the Ogryn were looking to the left so I re-mounted the head straight on and added some GS to the neck to fill it out.

Well I think this is far as I will get tonight Hope you like em!

C&C is of course very welcome!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

Can I just say how much I hate auto appended posts? A lot.

**Trilobite**

Those look dead sexy, debating picking some up of ebay myself, would you recomend? I sympathise with you on auto-appended posts.

**BLACKHAND**

If you like Skaven pick them up , they are a really nice sculpt both of them very individual

1 is fat and stitched together, the other is ripped and has cracked skin, very cool.

And yeah Auto append sucks, why even have it?

**Munch Munch!**

Awesome rat ogryns. Love them.

@Trilobite: Yeah, the new skaven kits are amazing. especially the storm vermin kit.

**Captain Klaw**

The rat ogryns look fantastic.

**alexwars1**

Two-headed Rat Ogre. Do eeeet....

**CrazyMez**

This is all very cool.

You GS skills are awesome, and I love the fact you got semi believable fluff (as believable as time travelling, spacefaring, man rats can be anyway)

I think its time for an army shot though :-D Pleeeaaasssee

**porkuslime**

Yeah.. a 2-headed Rat Ogre for the Bone 'ead!

Twice the smarts!

**Trilobite**

Lol

**Yggdrasil**

I'm fond of porkuslime's idea...

A 2-headed Rat-ogre would be LEGENDARY!

**The Good Green**

Those two are coming along. I don't like the heads looking the same way either. I feel like GW used to have more varied dynamic poses (in their metal modes).

The head swap looks good, but I feel like the first ones ripper gun could be lower on the arm... more attached to the mid-forearm than the wrist.

The new plasma gun came out great. That crystal looks jammed in and cut to shape.

**BLACKHAND**

HOLY SH$T I JUST SAW THAT THIS PLOG HAS HIT 20,000 HITS THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH PEOPLE!!!!!

I tell you now when I began the plog I had no idea dakkites would be so interested in filthy rats!

As soon as two headed rat was mentioned I did consider it for the bonehead but I don't have any more Rat Ogres to convert so the idea will have to go on the back burner...along with female breeders and zombie rat sentinels

@the good green - Its's creepy, after seeing the pic I didn't like the angle the ripper gun was on so I cut it off and lopped a section off the arm. The gun is now attached about 3mm lower on the arm than it was...exactly what you suggested (queue x-files theme)

I hope to get the plasmagun attached to a stormvermin tonight along with a few more lasguns. I have decided to spend a night on the 40skaven and next a night on the Sabre Legion in order to avoid burning out on either.

Thanks again for posting people its great motivation!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**tony_nids_10**

Oh BH, I do appreciate the time you took away from some of your other projects to help me out!

On topic, when do we get to see a pic or two of the whole gang together?

**BLACKHAND**

No worries 'Nids it was refreshing to take a break and work on something different.

As for a group shot I still don't have enough painted to make it worth it but as soon as I have a few stormvermin painted up I will post one up.

TBH I am a little embarrassed by my progress on the Stormvermin, I planned to have most of them built and painted by now but the Warp Seers, Psykers and Rat Ogryn have been distracting me and so I only have about three of them built and one painted :S