1) I've been working on this Aberration conversion on and off for a bit for this small contest held at UnderEmpire. Anyway, long story short the Aberration contest might not happen afterall so I figure I'd still continue my progress but document it here.
An Aberration in Skaven Warhammer world is basically a Skaven Spawn. To make one, I took a fairly obvious route and picked up a Chaos Spawn box and hopefully with some extra Skaven bits I can make a somewhat believable model.
Much of the time at this point unfortunately was used on trying to figure out what 'X' piece to put in 'Y' slot/hole and planning it all out. Pace was fairly steady until I came to the last 2 slots/holes on its chest.
Do I add an eye or a tentacle or visa versa? What about both eyes or both tentacles? Should I add something totally different or cop out and just fill them up with putty?
After much thought and indecision I chose this:
But now I'm having second thoughts. D'oh!
2) I've acquired about 2 large zip lock bags full of plastic rats from someone that dumped his Skaven collection onto me a long, long time ago. A quick count I can do 2 30 clanrat units and and about 20 skirmishers. But they are all crap and not how I want them. A couple nights ago I started taking some of them apart and hopefully put a couple units together and/or maybe revise current ones.
In the end I hope to do the following:
1. get a unit of 30 spear rats
2. get a handful of a slave-looking rats to A) replace minis in current slave units and to B) start another slave unit
3. create more night runners and gutter runners to add to the pool
4. stick whatever is left into a new clanrat unit
3 comments:
Hm...not bad. Did you consider maybe a rat tail or two in that area as tentacles? I think some of the tails have weapons attached to their ends? Or maybe put an eye at the end of the tail/tentacle?
Yes, I did consider them. The problem for me was that they did look like tails with weapons on them. They looked different from the tentacles that it became distracting- to me, at least. Others have told me to get rid of the eye or make the eye look like a boil. I may go that route.
Boils - nice. Nice and Bubonic Plague-like.
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