Svartmetall
New member
I\'ve put this in my Nurgle 101 tutorial at RelicNews, but thought I\'d put it here for the CMON crowd as well...
Here\'s a nifty way to do limb replacements; this method allows you to create limbs that look like mutations or other kinds of organic growth. I\'m demonstrating this on a leg, but it would work just as well on an arm or even a section of torso.
First off, take a set of Terminator legs:
Then carefully cut out the section of limb you want to replace. Use a pin drill to make a hole several millimetres deep in the end of the boot and the side of the hip, then cut a piece of galvanised steel wire (perfect for armatures) to the right length and stick a healthy dab of superglue on each end then insert it into both holes. Then bend the wire to shape once the glue has set enough for it to be securely anchored:
Now put a thin layer of green stuff around the visible wire so there\'s no metal showing...
..and allow it to cure hard. This rough wrap of GS will be the basis for the fun stuff to follow.
Once that\'s cured hard, mix up a small amount of GS and roll it into thin cylinders then wrap these around the central wrap of GS at various angles:
Try to use different thicknesses instead of having every piece of GS the same diameter - this makes the end result look more organic and natural, like something that has grown rather than been woven out of wire or something.
And basically just keep going till it looks right to you:
WARNING: doing this rapidly becomes addictive
I would suggest keeping the overall diameter of the combined GS smaller than that of the original armour, so that it\'s more obviously a replacement limb as opposed to looking like something that could have been stuck on top of the existing armour; the whole point of going to such lengths is to mess with the overall shape of the model so that it\'s obvious something drastic has happened to the thing you\'re modelling.
It has a nice sense of being 3-dimensional to it, which with careful painting will give real textural depth to the finished mini. I think that in the end the only way to make something really look properly 3-dimensional is to build it in, basically, 3 dimensions...
And here\'s the same technique done on power armour, with the whole lower leg and foot all replaced by a horrible fungal-flesh look:
You can see from this that this technique lends itself to a wide range of body alterations on miniatures; it would be good for a Possessed, for example, with much of the body replaced by this sort of method and just small sections of armour left along the various limbs. It would be a lot of work but worth it in the end...
Hopefully this was useful to people
Here\'s a nifty way to do limb replacements; this method allows you to create limbs that look like mutations or other kinds of organic growth. I\'m demonstrating this on a leg, but it would work just as well on an arm or even a section of torso.
First off, take a set of Terminator legs:
Then carefully cut out the section of limb you want to replace. Use a pin drill to make a hole several millimetres deep in the end of the boot and the side of the hip, then cut a piece of galvanised steel wire (perfect for armatures) to the right length and stick a healthy dab of superglue on each end then insert it into both holes. Then bend the wire to shape once the glue has set enough for it to be securely anchored:
Now put a thin layer of green stuff around the visible wire so there\'s no metal showing...
..and allow it to cure hard. This rough wrap of GS will be the basis for the fun stuff to follow.
Once that\'s cured hard, mix up a small amount of GS and roll it into thin cylinders then wrap these around the central wrap of GS at various angles:
Try to use different thicknesses instead of having every piece of GS the same diameter - this makes the end result look more organic and natural, like something that has grown rather than been woven out of wire or something.
And basically just keep going till it looks right to you:
WARNING: doing this rapidly becomes addictive
I would suggest keeping the overall diameter of the combined GS smaller than that of the original armour, so that it\'s more obviously a replacement limb as opposed to looking like something that could have been stuck on top of the existing armour; the whole point of going to such lengths is to mess with the overall shape of the model so that it\'s obvious something drastic has happened to the thing you\'re modelling.
It has a nice sense of being 3-dimensional to it, which with careful painting will give real textural depth to the finished mini. I think that in the end the only way to make something really look properly 3-dimensional is to build it in, basically, 3 dimensions...
And here\'s the same technique done on power armour, with the whole lower leg and foot all replaced by a horrible fungal-flesh look:
You can see from this that this technique lends itself to a wide range of body alterations on miniatures; it would be good for a Possessed, for example, with much of the body replaced by this sort of method and just small sections of armour left along the various limbs. It would be a lot of work but worth it in the end...
Hopefully this was useful to people
