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This was the idea I came up with to represent the number of pain tokens a Dark Eldar unit accumulates over the course of the game. The resin base had to be high enough to drill so that the trophy pikes would fit snugly without being loose. 0-3 trophy pikes can be added or removed with ease during the game, and I've found that it adds an aesthetic level that is more pleasing than simply throwing pennies down next to each unit (or using a die, which I already had been using as wound counters). Now I'll need to make a few more, but the opportunity to scrounge through bits boxes in order to pick and choose heads to build the trophies offers a neat level of creativity.

Simple idea, well-executed. Very smart work.

Good use of bitzs and a job well done

Thanks for the compliments, I found that the best way to paint skulls when it's important for them to look different is to do one at a time, while grabbing multiple paints to mix and blend for that specific skull. I saw the Ork skull, and grabbed a couple browns and a bone paint and blended them together, but for the human skulls went more ivory and white, except for a couple that ended up more greenish. I have more fun painting helmets, so the Tau helmet was a treat. The skull directly under the green alien head was a servo skull, so it was also nice to pick out the lens on that one. Looking at these pictures, I will need to go over that green skull, I thought it was a Vespid but it isn't and I don't quite know whether to make it a skull or a newly decapitated alien head.

I think its a newly decapitaed Urghuls head?

Nicely done, It'll look great on the board.

I've taking to using D4's these days.

I was using D6's mounted in Teacups (to go with my kettle Chronos), but I'm now using these as objective-markers (with the whole variable hidden points thing).