Nicodemus:
how do you cast the greenstuff re-cast things? Especially for substantial things like the goblins? (way eairlier in the blog). I've been having real dramas trying to do this myself and you seem to know the secret.
Ronshank
I'm not nearly as good as that series of pictures you're referring to has lead you to believe. In that case it's a Goblin from the board game HeroQuest and they were green plastic, essentially the same colour of green as "cured" GS. So I don't really know any secrets. The furthest I've gotten with 'casting' using GS is to stick a blob of GS into the bottom of a square base (which acted as the frame of the 1-part mould) then pressed the face of an Orc skull into it. The Orc skull and the GS had lots of water on them (I hear olive oil works much better), then I pulled the skull out after a few seconds and by the next day I was able to press more wet GS into the dried mould and get a copy of the face of the skull. Never ended up using it though (yet).
what about a Chaos Dwarf elite unit with a similar sort of "magical infection" to the obliterator virus...
RoguePanda
That would be expen$ive, but I really like that idea! :cheers You could probably make something like Chaos Dwarfs riding around inside daemon-mecha ;) Just convert the front of the Obliterator model so that it looks more like a cockpit and put a Dwarf torso & head in there. You'd probably still have to cut the back of the head and the torso off so that it's just the front-most part showing, but it has potential! They'd make some crazy Immortals, although the base size would be an issue ;) :P
What to do, what to do? Here's the start of my horribly unfinished army.
9 units of 20 Warriors (each with w/ Full Command and unit filler)
If (and when) I do a 10th unit of Warriors it's going to be special. I already know what it's going to be, but I have no idea how I'm going to pull it off or what it'll look like when it's done... but in my hazy imagination I can almost see it... and it has epic theme, is
totally Dawi Zharr, and will probably be front and centre of my army along with my Great Taurus.
First 4 units of 18 Blunderbuss (each with w/ Full Command and unit filler)
There's also 2 Great Taurus each with Lord, 2 Lammasu each with Sorcerer if needed, and there
will be 2 Hell Cannons. The second one will be here within the week.
As for the rest of the army, here's the plan based on what I have (counting 4th-7th ED stuff):
10 Bull Centaurs (only assembled 4 so far, although I've got 11 I'll only group them in 5s)
9 Death Rockets (only two assembled so far)
3 Earth Shakers (none assembled)
2 units of 12 Hobgoblin Warriors each w/ Full Command (
I'd prefer a larger number but this is all I have to work with for now)
1 unit of 18 Hobgoblin Archers
1 unit of 18 Sneaky Gitz
1 Hobgoblin Bolt Thrower
5 Hobgoblin Wolfriders (one of which is the Hobgoblin Hero)
1 Astragoth (actually I have 2, but he's unique so I can't count him twice)
4 Sorcerers
3 Heroes
From the Indy GT list I also have:
1 Morgok Hellspawn
1 Daemonsmith (although I could probably sub in my 3 Arcane Engineers as extra Daemonsmiths, but they're going to be permanent fixtures of unit fillers soon)
1 unit 20 Rabble (I can probably do a lot more than this if I mix and match Flagellants with converted ghouls, Skaven and some other units like Snotlings. I've got heaps of extra Snotlings from Warhammer Quest)
I hasten to add that none of the above is counting my unit fillers, which in many cases could count as things like an Eruption Gun, Inferno Golem, Earth Shaker, etc.I've also got 5 Dwarf Iron Breakers coming that'll form part of my Immortals, the other 5 are going to be conversions and I think the process for designing and making them have been finalized (just not shared yet)... more to come on that much later.
I'm also in need of a couple of more unit fillers for my Warrior units. I need 3 more ideas. Zhatan the Black would be good as a unit filler, or a character similar to him... I have to admit I have a hard time finding good models with hands in positions that can be make to look like they are supporting something like a palanquin. I could sculpt them from GS but with my abilities that sounds painful. I also really want to make a second Dwai-Zharr converted Disc of Tzeentch, but I'll hold off for now as I don't want it to look too samey with the other one nearly finished.
After all that I think that's it for now... although I'm still waiting on some bits and pieces, such as a couple of more Blunderbuss models and bitz to finish off a lot of the conversions.
~N
