Nothing up my sleeves (emptyhat's models)

[judcottrell]

Warboss looks solid!
Though I agree it’d be better if he was looking in the direction of the Gargoyle.

[emptyhat]

Update on him. I rifled through my Imperial vehicle bitz box and scored some parts for an armoured skirt and some leg pistons. I'm going to beef up the feet a bit too to integrate them. judcottrell In that case I'll tear his head off. Hopefully I can do that even though I drilled a pin into both sides but the great mekboyz all say you can't be afraid to tear the bitz off a model if it isn't working well enough.

[judcottrell]

That’s the spirit! If in doubt, give it a clout!!

[emptyhat]

Project update: I yanked off the head. You have to be very careful with one of these because a severed Ork head can live for days and is quite mean.



And re-attached it to the body with as much angle as I could get without cutting off the ear. Though to be honest any more twist past the armoured breast plate would have made the neck ridiculously long, as it is I think it is still alright.







I also added some Termagaunt corpses to the base, they should blend in a bit more later but I'm going to have to be careful about leaving room to glue the boss on. BTW judcottrell what is the paint colour scheme for your nids? I think you mentioned Vallejo field grey, which looks like a slightly darker Administratum Grey. Is it a progression of grey highlights over black and then something like Castellan Green for the shell?

[judcottrell]

Much better! Looks a lot more natural.

For the black areas I use Skavenblight Dinge, wash with Nuln Oil, line highlights of Stormvermin fur and Dawnstone.

For the shells I use Vallejo German Dark Camo green, Field grey (I try and fit this colour into all my projects!!) then some lines of a mix of field grey and Nurgling Green, finished with fine lines of pure Nurgling Green!

Hope that helps.

[emptyhat]

Very helpful. I'll need to work out how to mix the Vallejo colours and I don't have Skaven Blight Dinge or Stormvermin on handm but I do have to paint a few hundred Skaven at some point so I've ordered some. I imagine by the time GW manages to fulfill the order I'll have the model finished enough for painting.

[cheminhaler]

The new warboss looks really unique. The legs are from the AoBR/ Assault on Vedros warboss, aren't they?

That termagant on the base is well casted; is it made of milliput cast from Blue stuff?

[emptyhat]

Good eye. The main body of the boss is the AoBR body; and the termies are indeed milliput-bluestuff casting. Fun fact, if you pop them out a little early they are still somewhat bendy. The original plan was to boot splat one while it was still doughy (which might still happen).