Mordheim: Possessed Magister WiP

Evening readers time for another update.


and whats this I've got another project on the go............I'm getting predictable I know :P

This time the project is Mordheim a game that I've had Foot_of _adhesive_tape nagging me to get into for a fair while now, but it is not him who finally pushed me over the edge no it is that sarcastic git known only as Rictus who is to blame for this after a MSN conversation the other day.

After being split between Undead, Beastmen and Cult of the Possessed I finally decided to go with the latter more specifically a Slaaneshii themed cult.

Why Slaanesh? I hear you cry, well of all the chaos powers it is the only one I have never really modelled anything for, dabbled with the others but I usually stick to Undivided. Now I'm drawing some inspiration from the Dragon age games namely from the desire demons and blood mages for the theme of the cult, specifically how in Dragon age each of those can control and influence people.

Theme wise the magister is a Woman who has seduced her way up the social ladder with a little help from slaanesh, I know this might be the stereotypical sort of slaanesh theme but I like it. Other themes I shall explore are gluttony which will most likely take the form of a rather chunky mutant as well as perfection which I am unsure of how to do with the warriors so far.

right enough rambling I'm sure you will want to see the WiP pics of the magister:

She is based on the legs of a flagellent which I have heavily cut and filed down to make them more slender, the torso and the start of the head are entirely scratch sculpted. Here is the concept sketch I knocked up whilst the ideas were fresh in my head the other night:

as you can see I'm going for the Slaanesh exposed skin look though keeping away from exposed boobies, this will give me space to do some tattoos. Mutation wise she will have some small horns on the left hand side of her head and i might even mix in some tentacle with the hair much like how the older metal daemonettes had.

The rest of the warband will be based around the empire archers set all be it heavily converted, the idea of this project is to further improve my sculpting skills and to try and create something unique. The fact that its a pretty damn cheap game to get into also helped :P

I shall be setting up a page on the blog dedicated to this project, an idea shamelessly stolen from Mr Feral. There I shall put down rough ideas, sketches and even the warband list :)

Also Welcome to new followers Stillfrosty Conversions and Now Undivided, thanks for the support guys :)

well thats it for now as ever any comments or suggestions are more than welcome

First 15mm sculpt complete

A second update in the space of a day.............lies :P

I've managed to get the test sculpt for the 15mm Sci-fi trooper done:


I'm well pleased with him now as I can see him all done, already begun work on a second guy so watch this space :P

Been into Birmingham today for something to do, checked out the new Modelzone store that has recently opened there. Must say if there is one in your area go check it out as they have some very nice stuff including a load of tamiya, humbrol and vallejo paints as well as a mass of model kits. They even had a remote control Tiger tank that fired BBs from its gun haha.

So whilst in model zone I picked up 2 pots of the Tamiya clear red as I've been told by a few people that it is really good for doing gore and blood effects on minis(something that comes in handy for painting the undead :P ) so I put it to use on this Vampiress's sword:

quite pleased with the effect which was a layer of clear red, then a wash of badab black whilst ti was still wet then another layer of clear red over the top.

Also picked up the latest Volume of the only manga I collect called Black Lagoon(the anime of it is awesome too) got it from Forbidden Planet the cheeky gits had put the price label of £9.99 over the rrp on the back of the volume which was £8.99 might only be a £1 extra but still, tis a bit of a con :P

Any way that it for now as ever comments and suggestions are more than welcome :)

New Beginnings

Afternoon readers, has been a while since I last posted, had a lot of family stuff going on as well as a great loss of Mojo. So much so that I have packed away a lot of my hobby stuff and intend to have a few months off from painting and set game systems (Warhammer, FoW etc) as well as spending as much time on hobby forums on the net.

However this is not the end of this blog no as I intend to carry on sculpting, I have recently signed up for a sculpture Course at the local adult education center which will be starting in late September, I hope to learn classical sculpting and also how to make some character busts so I thought I would get in some practise before it starts as it has been a fair while since I did any scratch sculpts.

So to start off with I've attempted something I've wanted to do for a while a 15mm sculpt. So armed with a FoW german for reference and some paper clip I set about it:

He is still very WiP but I'm stupidly happy with him so far, never thought I would be able to pull off such a small sculpt. The strange thing is I have found him easier to do than a 28mm miniature maybe because there is less detail or maybe because there is no need to build up the basic muscle groups, the leg for example is one blob of GS sculpted into shape in 1 go.

The theme of this guy is like a Sci-Fi Japanese trooper, as you will have hopefully have picked up from the samurai influences on it(I have some concept art I'll put up soon). Given how well this guy has come out so far I'm considering sculpting another 8 or 9 and then possibly casting them as I've wanted to experiment with casting for a while now.

Casting? why would you do that I hear you cry, well I'm thinking of making a 15mm scale gaming board only a small one and also writing up my own back ground and rules for it, I was inspired to think of doing such a thing by fjk177222 and his 15mm log on the Ammo Bunker: http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7388215/

Easily one of the most inspirational and original logs I've seen on the AB in a long time, it got me pretty fired up to have a crack at not only making my own rules and back ground but 15mm wargaming in general. I have FoW but this is more single figures on bases as a skirmish game.

So over the coming months you shall see me make the board and the fire teams that shall fight over it as well as the sculptures I'll be making on my course. I'm sure I'll crack and paint something at some point most likely Mantic zombies and a few Hasslefree zombie hunters to go with em :P

Thanks for reading :D