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So it IS possible to make those spider riders look good. It just takes time and a fantastic modeller like yourself! Very inspirational work, I shall keep an eye on this thread

Nice spider work. Looking forward to what you do with the riders.

Arachnids looking good (not something I expected to hear me say), shame those riders are one piece I'd been thinking of grabbing a couple to add to my servo-grots.

Onto the VC Bashing Orcs Army and the wolf riders. I really had a bunch of fun with these guys. Even the wolves are old you can change the around. And the multi-piece goblins are so much more fun modeling and converting than the spider rider goblins.

I spent a bunch of time converting the riders. Again the theme was to be bashing skeletons, well they are goblins so they don't do as much bashing, but I did continue the theme throughout the unit.




I also wanted to fix the spears, make them a bit meaner looking, they are getting a bit old looking.




Added a bunch of icons, and the guy I was building these for wanted them armed with all of the options.

Sweet.

Here is the finished VC Bashing Wolf Rider unit, 12 strong with a custom movement tray.






They are armed with all of the options possible from the last book, doubt this changed with the new book.



Some close-ups...

Wow. That this whole thread is the best O & G modeling I have ever seen.

Hey Psychosis, I have a question to ask, if I may?

I was wondering how you sculpted the chainmail, and the cloth? Any attempts I've done seem to end up looks sub par.

ghosty wrote:Hey Psychosis, I have a question to ask, if I may?

I was wondering how you sculpted the chainmail, and the cloth? Any attempts I've done seem to end up looks sub par.

As to the mail, the picture below shows the various tools I use, #4 the ball stylus is what I use for the mail:


The mail is done in a series of rows, pushing all the same direction, get to the end push the other way. So you start with a indented circle, then you push the edge of the next circle into the other.
ie.
The start will be a simple: o

ie.
Then you will do this:
0)))))))))))))))))) --->(direction of the push)
((((((((((((((((((0<----

When you get to the end which is typically the edge of your backing piece, push in the outside edge of the "0".

On cloth pieces I, I roll out a small piece of GS, flatten it on a piece of plastic film (lot of times is use the plastic wrapper the comes with the GS), smooth it out with tool #1, cut it too shape, let it cure a few minutes, pick up by the film and gently apply it to the miniature. I use tools 2, 5, 6, and a to put in the folds, but you can also does this by manipulating the edges as it cures to make it curl and wave.

And now we have the VC Bashin' Black Orcs...

A unit of 21 that includes the BSB in the middle next to the Champ with the huge axe and head from the blorc banner. I trimmed up the head quite a bit to make it fit.

Mostly concentrated my conversions on using bits, doing weapon swaps, and adding glyphs.

In these units, I do like turning the models in the unit flanks to the outside to sort of give more eye candy to the viewers.

I also added a bunch of capes and fur.

The BSB's banner I heavily converted, no pic at this point, but it will be appropriately obnoxious in size.

Here are some of the individual shots of the blorcs. There are so few heads for the blorcs that when you want to make each one somewhat unique, you have to come up with ways to do that. The one on the left I'm calling Batorc, the one on the right had a riveted strip down the center so I removed that.

The shear size of them does make it difficult to do things with them. So again I resorted to adding things to make them look more mean. I have a bunch of extra Goblin spears so they make good spikes. Also note that I did horn swaps on the heads too.


Below you see the back of the BSB. I have a specially converted banner for that guy. The cape you see is made out of ProCreate putty. I have been trying it a bit and just cannot get it to work real well for me. Also the neutral gray is very hard for me to see when working with it. It does smooth out well for the cape.

There is also a bit of plastic sprue welded to the miniature on the underside of the cape to help give it a hump between the shoulders.



More glyphs. The one on the right is the unit champion. The Head is from the one black orc banner. You can note that the jaw line was trimmed down considerably.

Back side of them. Since they have so much plate armor and mail, I decided to put some fur on them to break that up a bit.


Ogre bitz also work with these guys. A bit of touch is required on the one on the right. But that pose uses the banner arm.

Pretty awesome. BOrcs have always been my favorite orc unit

Looks great

Been awhile, but an update: The Fwamin' Eadz Nob

I converted up this Nob, created the back pole icon out of plasti-card, sculpted the skull and flames on the shoulder and the flames above the eye. The axe is also a conversion. And I finally got around to finishing the paintwork.


Stitched wound was carved into the plastic and then sculpted the stitches. Added a Tau head, dislike those little bastards. I really like how the skin tone turned out and how the browns turned out.


The base is one of Dragon Forge's resin castings. They are very good looking basings and the castings are good. Love the buried trench works.


---PPC

It's been a year since your last update! Keep up the great work, looking forward to seeing more GhostRidaz