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Helsinki

Hi there fellow Dakkanauts! I decided to start a thread that could contain all the WIP stuff that I'm working on, rather than start a new thread for every single new project.

To sum up some past activities, here's a list of my previous WIP threads: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/recentTopics/showTopicsByUser/0/126715/56.page

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And then to the NEW STUFF! YAY!
Last week I started a new project that I've been planning for a couple of months now. It's time for some Slaves to Darkness! I dug up some old Chaos miniatures from my 90's armies, and am currently waiting to get a few more from a local Facebook marketplace group. I was also asking for some Gorebeast Chariots, Karkadraks and a Manticore there, but wasn't offered any immediately, so started cutting up the good old farm animal toys. The headless pig will become a Manticore for example. Might have to do quite a bit of sculpting on all the beasts at least, and will aim for a strong oldschool Realm of Chaos vibe for this army. Here's what I've gathered so far:











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Helsinki

Slaves to Darkness army project (pt.2) - Converting, bashing and sculpting the characters

Long time - no post. Haven't felt like writing and editing pictures for quite some time. Still done lots of work with the Slaves to Darkness army. Also taken dozens of pics along the way. So many actually, that I felt like splitting them between a few posts.

This one's about the mounted characters of my army: a Sorcerer Lord on Manticore and two Chaos Lords on Karkadraks. Done much sculpting work on them, experimenting with different textures. Very fun and educational to try and replicate things like the feathers on Manticore's wings (the wings are originally from a very old Marauder Miniatures War Griffon that had a hat on). None of these are quite ready yet, but getting close!

So, here's a few pics and a couple more at my blog.














   
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Helsinki

Rather slow but irresistible progress on the Gorebeast Chariots. Got the good old Hero Quest Chaos Warrior and two Blood Bowl dudes riding them. Even though it's visible in the pictures, I'd like to try and describe these things. First we've got a goat-spider drawing a chariot that's growing a demonic face on it's floor. Then there's this reverse-goat-beholder with crab claws, whose fanged rear mouth has just given birth to an egg that's now travelling on a cart with a nest made of skulls and bones. And finally we have a three-eyed gorilla-pig, who's getting eaten by the chariot. Because why not.

Loads more WIP pics at my blog as usual.




















   
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Arrrrgh!

Chaos has warped the livestock!

Cheers,

CB

   
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Bonkerrs!!! But in a great fun monsterbash sort of way

Thanks for sharing



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Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
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Terrifying. Gloriously terrifying.
   
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Reading, Berks

Those are terrifying! Can't wait to see them all painted up, they are going to really stand out on the table!

   
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WOW! First time I've had my socks blown off opening a thread in a while. Love the mutants.

   
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I’m glad my kids weren’t peering over my shoulder as I went through these posts! I don’t think I’m going to sleep tonight. Great imaginative stuff MM, the chariot eating the gorilla pig is insane.

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Helsinki

Thanks for the super nice comments people, they made me smile!

Here's a couple more WIP shots of the Slaves to Darkness project. More of the same with some related babble on my blog.




















   
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in the computer?

Your projects are always a treat. I miss the old school RoC Chaos where the weird was the norm and all the knights had terrible posture, you're capturing the spirit well.

I like the hook-footed lord the best, how impractical!

 
   
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Helsinki

Thanks Thumpingbear! Very glad you mentioned the old RoC and terrible postures - they have always been a big influence for me. I really love and miss all these more passive, withdrawn and hunched postures.


   
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This is uppercase bonkers, MM. I love 1988-ish RT/STD Chaos, such great weird tragicomic sculpts ... but clearly not enough farm animals, so dark lords bless you for adding those to the mix.

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Such a good collection, I'm loving all the work you've put into the shields! The slightly worried version of the Scream is my favourite

   
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OMG that pig is going to give me nightmares!
   
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Helsinki

Thank you very much for nice feedback, people!

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Here's a little something I put on my blog a while ago. I'll copy a few of the pics down below, but more can be found from the post in there.

"Got two of the Gorebeast Chariots almost ready and painted now. Only have to finish their bases and put varnish on top. Might do some simple freehand symbols later for the whole army if they look like they're in need of such.

Again, I included the paint bottles on the pictures. I won't be painting the whole army in one go, so needed to have some kind of notes. There were a few specific and new-for-me-things I did try to use this time:
1) Brainmatter Beige for basecoating wood & bone, undercoating reds and even for the final highlights.
2) Nazdreg Yellow (with some Seraphim Sepia & Athonian Camoshade for shading and Tesseract Glow for glazing) highlighted up to Kraken Skin for the goat-spider's skin.
3) Also experimenting with wet blending a lot, especially on the beast´s skin tones.
4) Leather on boots & gloves was done with Light Grey & Pale Grey Blue highlights, with Skeleton Horde, Sepia & Camoshade washes for shading (these were also used to shade the wooden parts).
5) Iron was basecoated with Matt Black, Wyldwood and/or Typhus Corrosion, drybrushed with Oily Steel, shaded and weathered with Sepia & Camoshade. Edges and scratches were done with Vallejo Air Steel."
















Also check the finished results: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/801537.page#11292993

   
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And I thought they couldn't get any better!
Really well done paint jobs!

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Brilliant colors Mutant Modifier.

They look like something right out of the old Slaves to Darkness sketches, but yours are in color!

Cheers,

CB

   
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I concur, absolutely fantastic work on these!

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Helsinki

Thanks for your kind words people! <3

Just got the unit of Chaos Warriors ready. Pics can be found from this thread: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/801537.page#11293877

Here's the selection of WIP shots:


















   
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Nice use of Chronopia figs.
   
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Helsinki

 bbb wrote:
Nice use of Chronopia figs.


Thanks for the comment & notice, bbb!

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It's time for a fresh start again, with a new Maggotkin of Nurgle project bursting with life.

I just came up with a time saving life / hobby hack. Now I happen to have an actual remote workplace / dedicated hobby room / castle where I mostly do my wargaming and tinkering at. Time there is often limited, but things can be left on the table / shelf / floor for as long as I want (which is a great thing). However, I've noticed that quite a lot of my limited and precious hobby time often goes into just preparing and cleaning of all the mould lines on the miniatures. And it sucks.

So! I just made room for another small hobby spot back at home. It's just one shelf on a bookcase at the bedroom. There are good spotlights, a cutting mat and a CD player ready to go, together with a decent hobby knife. And that's all I need to start scraping all the mould lines off from all the miniatures and bits needed for whatever the current / next project is. Just a couple of spare moments here and there, along with the occasional hours on sleepless nights gets miniatures ready for assembly rather quick!

And this is exactly what I did last week. Spent a few evenings to clean bits needed to kitbash and build 40 Plaguebearers. In addition to the actual models, there's Bloodletters, Gors and Dryads (10 each) to join in the putrid ranks. Yesterday after work I vigorously assembled a first batch of 10 Plaguebearers, with inverted Gor torsoes and Bloodletter heads turned backwards. Also sculpted some Plague Swords.

But how to base these guys (and the whole army, that I'm about to build)? I'm thinking about sculpting something, as I haven't done that yet for bases. Bubbling daemonic goo? Cobblestone roads? Random unnameable natural shapes and growths?






   
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They all fit together pretty well, and the gs skills blend them in even better! I guess you’ll be sculpting faces on the blood letter heads?

What’s the clear banner made from? It looks pretty rigid yet has a great banner shape.

As for the bases, some bubbling rotting swamp looks cool for nurgle, or maybe some rotting corpses?

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Really looking forward to seeing you work your magic on these!

I think some formless scary abstract nonsense on the bases would suit the theme, but I trust your artistic judgement

Thanks for sharing



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Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
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 gobert wrote:
They all fit together pretty well, and the gs skills blend them in even better! I guess you’ll be sculpting faces on the blood letter heads?

What’s the clear banner made from? It looks pretty rigid yet has a great banner shape.

As for the bases, some bubbling rotting swamp looks cool for nurgle, or maybe some rotting corpses?

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Really looking forward to seeing you work your magic on these!

I think some formless scary abstract nonsense on the bases would suit the theme, but I trust your artistic judgement

Thanks for sharing


Thanks guys! <3

I was thinking about sculpting cyclop eyes on the backwards Bloodletter heads, but they look so funny and scary now, I might just leave them as is. It's somehow suitably unclear to me whether those round holes in their "faces" are actually mouths or eye sockets.

The clear banner is made from clear plastic from some blister box (not the flimsiest one). Heated up just little bit with a lighter to bend the shapes in. It's suitably rigid, yeah. First time I tried this method, and it worked out great!

For the bases I decided to go for a bubbling rotting organic rocky outcrop feel (more of this down below).




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Here's a few WIP shots from the last week or so. I got four units of 10 Plaguebearers each kitbashed and converted. Then I did quite a bit of sculpting on them to get all those mismatched bits fit in seamlessly. Added in many buboes, pustules and hanging bellies. Also of note is that most of the hands, swords etc. were first glued in very close to their bodies and/or hanging down (rather than heroically waving around skywards), then the gaps between sculpted shut. This gives many of the miniatures droopy and sullen look, very withdrawn and passive. I think this suits the army's theme quite well, and is also a nod towards the aesthetics of old sculpted miniatures, back when the limitations of molding and casting of metal miniatures had a huge impact on their visuals too.

To the bases I glued in little rocks and this nice plastic place mat that looks like an endless swarm of tapeworms. Small lumps of Green Stuff were put on the bases and textured with a sharp rock. Then the miniatures got drops of superglue on their feet and were pressed deep on to the GS. The GS was then further textured by pressing in small round holes. Looks nice and really secures the miniatures on the bases. Then I glued in some beads and sand. Might sculpt / glue in tiny maggots and other details later. I'm thinking about painting the bases grey, and then adding some nice colour such as a bright orange or cyan to them with a wash or pigment powder. I'm going for this rocky gravely look, that's still somehow living and organic and rotten.

Sure, I wanted to have a Great Unclean One for this army, and decided to sculpt one. First time using aluminium foil for creating the base structure. Started bulking out the body shapes with Milliput and Das modelling clay. The latest layer is actually a 50/50 mixture of these two. Never tried this one before, nor have any idea how this might work or not.



















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Very creative, these are turning out very well and very chaotic

   
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 Illumini wrote:
Very creative, these are turning out very well and very chaotic

Thank you Illumini! Glad you like 'em.

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Maggotkin of Nurgle (pt.3) - sculpting more details on Plaguebearers & the Great Unclean One

Just a few more details sculpted on the Plaguebearers this week. Still hiding the joints of different parts, adding pustules and maggots, doing eyelids on one unit and some work on the banners to make them unique. I think they are ready to be painted now!

The Great Unclean One is also gaining weight. The 50/50 mixture of Das modelling clay and Milliput worked out just perfect! Very soft to work on, not sticky. Doesn't shrink and crack upon drying like pure Das, yet still some nice textural surprises might appear on it's surface. Easy to drill and cut. I'll very much recommend you try out this mixture (or something similar).

I wanted the GUO to have some cool and big "weapon". Not sword, so was thinking about some different blade options such as a sickle or a scythe. But since this guy is more of a sower than reaper, I decided upon a huge gardening fork! The face is also turning out to be quite funny. Like the old ill geezer just told something they think was a great gardening joke, like "let all flowers bloom" and is now boisterously tittering about it. Gonna fill the front of the base with tiny maggots and worms bursting out from the underbelly and the bell. Still not sure whether to add horns?

Much more WIP pics at my blog.



















   
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Superb daemons MM, your sculpting is pulling the kitbashes together wonderfully yet again Nice progress on the GUO, excited to see more and more GS bring out his details.

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Lovely work with the gs, they’re seemless now, great work!

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