Goblin Mini Mart

Now that I’ve got some base colors on this guy you can see more of whats going on.

I’ve got some entrails spilling out the right side and all sorts of pocks and boils. This is just the first stage, blocking out the major color areas. I’ve still got a lot of work ahead of me.

The daemon weapon will get the typical rust treatment, and I’m going to try to individually paint as many of the nodules as I can stand.

This is the big fella relaxing in some of the prototypes for our new machine cut mdf terrain which we may be selling as kits in the near future.

Last just a shot of the ruins themselves.

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Believe it or not these guys started out as loyalist space marine terminators. A guy I know had purchased them, assembled them and then scraped and chiseled off all the Imperial iconography. He was building a chaos space marine army with a “just after the heresy theme”, so they needed to be less spiky than the available chaos termie models. He traded them to me along with the rest of the unfinished army in exchange for some landscaping. I’m a huge fan of the barter system. I’m pretty happy with all the models I got, but I never liked these guys. They were to hacked up to resell and I didn’t like their neat and tidy loyalist looks at all. I want my Nurgle marines to be oozing entrails and vomiting maggots. I can’t dig on the clean white armored Heresy Death Guard some people have going, it’s not for me. So these guys sat on my table for a long long time. I would fiddle with them when I got bored. First I pulled all there heads off with a pair of pliers (curse you plastic glue) and replaced them with some zombie heads. Then all hell broke loose and I just started gluing on random bits, and wire, drilling in bullet holes and hacking them up with battle damage and what have you. It was a nice change of pace for me because I’m usually very timid with my models, always afraid I’ll mess them up. I didn’t care about these guys and that’s how I got them to where we are today. I don’t work much with green stuff. I do however make a lot of hideous zombie heads and masks out of Great Stuff. Yeah, the expanding insulation foam you get at hardware stores. So I put these termies to a test.

I sprayed out a bit of the foam and then with a length of wire I scooped it up and applied it to the models, ever so slightly, because it does expand by 300% or something crazy like that.

It swelled up and oozed all around nicely. These dudes were definitely looking Nurgley. I was really happy with the results of my 10 minutes of work. So I primed them up and took them to battle. Where if I recall correctly, they got viciously hammered by bane blades. So I brought them home set about painting them. The paint jobs are quick and dirty with lots of rust corrosion and purple buboes, with a basing to match my ash wastes/city fight table.

Took me about a week to get them all done. I’m guessing folks will either really love them or really hate them. Let me know what you think.

It is slow going here in the mek shop. I finally caught a minute to sit down and put in some time on my #2 Stompa build. The first was built in 7 days. The second is looking more like 7 years, or you could just call it 7 very non consecutive days.

I’ve added some structure and werky bits to the gun arm. I put two glyphs plates on the right shoulder and plated up the feet. I made and applied about 100 rivets, added some spikes to the feet and apron and drilled in a few battle damage bullet holes at random. I also put a little swiveling crane up on the left shoulder to mount my grot rokkits on so day in the far future.

I think the biggest change is I snapped off the two front big shoota mounts. They were just too symmetrical and neat. I think I’ll be adding something a bit more orky soon. If any one has comments or suggestions I’d love to hear them.

You can see some more of this stompa, here in the WIP section of our forums.

I’ve been meaning to build a ruined park for some time now. This is the first stage. I’d love some feedback and to hear any ideas you have on how I should proceed. Not to much real work into it yet, I have some detail bits to add to give the appearance of broken benches and perhaps lamp posts.

After having my orks get blasted into loads of green chowder last week, I put in the craters to hopefully look like the work of the Imperial Krieg Quad Launcher, which is nothing more than a thudd gun which used to be crewed by the squa… arrrrrghhhh.

You can see more of my city fight terrain in the WIP section of our forums.