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Looks good so far, impressive results from the jury-rigged lightbox - the Skaven would be proud Like the blackened limb look Also a fan of Brom

Thanks Monkeytroll, I'm pretty happy with the results from the lightbox as well, it seems more light isn't as important as diffuse light.

And yes Brom does rock the kasbah

The light box is a classic for sure

Looks immense Blackhand. The colouring is perfect!






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That is for the Daemon...the Ratgryns look awesome too...will they have a bonehead equivalent?

Looks awesome BH!!

You really do like black hands though don't you!

Consider some skaven runes 'written' on the body? Perhaps coming up out of the blackened limbs?

--B.

Ruins for sure, and some bells and chains/ropes. Died rats, too! That monster is turning out nice.

And thanks for showing us all just how easy a light box can be!

@Santobell - Lol, Thanks!

@Manoknok - Thanks, I still have a lot to work to do on the paintjob but the groundwork is there, unfortunately Macro pics have shown me a ton of flaws to fix up

I will be doing up one of the Rat Ogryn as a bonehead I just haven't considered what to add to represent it.

@Vitruvian - Thanks, and yeah I realize it seems a bit obsessive but it will look great I promise!

@Briancj - I have gone back and forth about runes on the Verminlord, the illustration has them and I have plenty of space on the model for them but I was worried about about taking focus away from the clean lines of the musculature. If I did go with runes I was thinking of black runes on the white skin with raised inflamed skin surrounding it as if it had been burned into it, what do you think?

@The Good Green - I have no more little rat skulls but I have a few bells, I may hang them from the shaft of the Glaive and if I do add runes in the skin they will be on the chest and shoulders.

And yes after procrastinating for so long I finally built a simple and easy lightbox that gets results , I can't believe I waited so long!

BTW it is only three box lids that I cut the insides out of and stuck sheets of A4 paper into , about as easy as it gets.....

...unless of course you have a 3 year old trying to "help" daddy, then it takes like 40 minutes


Cheers

BLACKHAND

I think the branded runes would look cool.

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I will be doing up one of the Rat Ogryn as a bonehead I just haven't considered what to add to represent it.

Why not use the skryre ogre as a bone'ead? It would at least look a bit more 'ard'eaded!

@munch - Yeah the more I think about them, the more I like the idea. Maybe I will give it a try tonight, maybe

@Saintspirit - I'm not very fond of the old GW Rat Ogres I'm afraid, Their heads look so cartoony!. If anything I will add some more armour plates to one of the two IaB Ogryn I have...or find a decent torso and build an entire Bonehead from scratch!

Why not make the bonehead literally that - a bone-headed rat ogryn, like a mini vermin lord? You've certainly got the gs skills (alternatively, try to thieve a mordheim cyber-rat skull?)

I actually have most of the giant rat skull from the trophy rack that comes with Squeek Headtaker I could have a go at a bonehead with that.... Damn you Graven I was nearly finished with the Rat Ogryn!!

So I did get some work done on the Verminlord's new Runes, but first I had a play with The Lamest Lighbox Ever TM, I just had to see what some of my other models looked like under the new rig

I think I like it.







And here are the Runes, I carved them in the lead with a hobby knife then used GS to form a lip around the edges to make them look deeper, they will get a light sand tomorrow before I add a much larger one to his back. I have been trying to think of something for his back as it was a large bare area but a septic branded Rune is perfect







C&C is welcome as always,

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

Your homemade cereal box light box works really well. I want one - will have to take up eating cereal first

Lol, they are the boxes from the "ruins of Osgiliath"!

I have that much class

Hmm come to think of it I do have a couple of cereal boxes hanging around...Woot! even bigger lightbox!

Runes, priests, flying castles, "warp" weaponry, Vermin Lord - can't be bothered going back through 15 pages - but did anyone consider playing it "counts as" Eldar?

I kinda had a bunch of IG weapon sprues hanging around and hoped to save a bit of cash, I guess I could have a go at writing them up as eldar and try them out for a few games. TBH I have only played IG and Daemonhunters so I am pretty comfortable with them.

Runes are good. Paint job on the skull is v. good so far - great colouring

Thanks Manoknok, I wish I hadn't had to F up my paintjob on the chest and shoulders to do the Runes but I think the model will be better for it...if I can pull it off

Yes a shame as I like that off white, though perhaps you can disguise it a little by having the runes festering a sort of green pussy colour?

Top notch as always mate well done!

@Manoknok - I am planning on having the runes a deep blue/black to contrast with the off white skin, still considering running a line highlight of red along the edges to make it look burnt/torn. I am going to try to get a look as if a corpse was branded with Runes so no dribbling blood more burnt bloodless flesh... ok now I'm even grossing myself out

@Santobell - Thanks Bro!

I think I'm going to stop checking out your thread in the mornings now BH, or just basically any time I'm eating .

Have you considered doing the runes glowing, your could use a similar palate to the warpstones. Throwing in a touch of OSL it could look quite convincing.

Sounds good blackhand. And its not as bad as if they were on teats! :p

@Lennysmash - Sorry again! I haven't tried my hand at OSL and don't really want to try to learn on such a centrepiece model, maybe once I have a bit of practice on my Warpgun stormvermin I will come back and give it a try.

@Manoknok - I want to say that teats are something you will never see in this army...but I can't promise anything

Lol That made me laugh!

Fair enough, but if you want to keep leading the field BH we need some NMM and some OSL, and maybe even a few other acronyms that haven't been invented yet .

I kid, fair enough, I wouldn't want to stuff up such a great model either.

Like the idea of the runes being branded into the flesh, I'm just wondering what reference material you're looking at for this project

I would go with eldar as a base for skaven - eldar move fast - so do skaven, eldar think fast - so do skaven

Just keep making space rats and you'll be able to use any codex