There is nothing more fun than when a client comes along with a mad idea for a project. The madder, always, the better. What do we do? We aid and abett. Gamers’ wives hate us for a reason! Here you can see why.
The client wanted a very Khornate look. Lots of:
blood, and freehand bloody lettering
skulls
spikes
gore
chains
Blood
The blood was straightforward. We used a fair bit of GW’s Blood for the Blood God appropriately enough. For the freehand, we had to practice the font a bit. Once we got the hang of it, we went nuts.
Skulls
We were sent a bunch of skulls, and we 3d printed more. I’m especially fond of the skull shoulder pads. They’re just normal shoulder pads but with skulls slapped on like roof shingles.
Spikes AND GORE
We modeled spikes sticking out of things. For those we used both toothpicks and bamboo skewers. We pulled out a poor fellow from an old Warlord Games infantry sprue and modeled him as a knee guard.
Where there are spikes, there’s gore. The gore was straightforward. It was modeled with green stuff then painted up for the part.
Chain AND MESH
The client sent us some jewellery chain to work with. On these, it looks massive but appropriate. I can’t over that we used it to chain a resin Titan head, to the back of the Acastus.
We used metal mesh from the hardware store to make the barbed wire. It was just a matter of cutting the mesh lengthwise, for each wire strand. Then, we just curled them.
Basing
For the basing, we were asked to match the look here from Dawn of War:
Matching the color was straightforward enough. However, it would have been odd if we kept things so flat. So, we got hold of some crater files, shrunk them down, and printed them. Inside each crater we used green stuff to model the ‘blast lines’ you’ll find in a crater.
Enjoy!
These were done to Exhibition Quality.
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Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.
And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).