my entry COMPLETE

[calicojack]

Here I am with my late entry! I’m basing my entry on my favourite epic tale of fencing ,fighting , murder,revenge and true love. Anyone who knows me knows I like classic books and most would then naturally assume that I’m basing it on the count of Monte Cristo......and you couldn’t be more WRONG!!! HA! Ha!

There is a story I love so much more than that, The Princess Bride!
Yes, I have chosen to base my entry outside of the Warhammer fantasy and 40k universe and instead work on my favourite revenge scene ever.

The scene I have chosen to depict is the one where Inigo the inebriated Spaniard finally tracks down Count Rugen the Six Fingered man after storming the castle and avenges the death of his father, the murdered master sword maker.

It’s a fairly simple scene to recreate and I’ve decided to piece it together mostly from empire militia men parts and in my typical style convert the shit out of them. Tomorrow I will do a little research (AKA sit around watching my favourite movie frame for frame) taking note of hair, clothing and other details necessary to maintain accuracy in my piece.

So far I have begun work on the pieces of the six fingered man. I have combined two different sets of empire militia legs with some green stuff to create a set of kneeling legs, no small feat as positioning of feet required a right foot from one pair of legs, and a left from another, currently they are setting and awaiting detail, as the boots currently don’t match and the knee joints are in need of detail.

I’m in the process of converting some arms which were wielding a crossbow so they appear to be gripping the sword blade sticking out from his chest. This is also quite difficult as I may have to sacrifice some detail to prevent the sword from looking bent and buckled.

If I cut the hands apart, it is likely I will never be able to realign them, if I don’t cut the hands apart, it will be difficult to make the crossbow appear thin enough to be a sword blade. I think it best to work around the hands rather than cut them, it will be harder to add an extra finger if I cut them apart.



note that in the picture the crossbow arms arent shown..

[calicojack]

part two of my entry is all the construction and painting from where i left off.



My first picture is of the miniatures completed, posed and blu-tacked together. I solved my issue with the arms by gluing them in place, then cutting one of the hands enough to hollow out the piece between the hands.



For the sword I used a small length of aluminium wire. I added the detail to the newly posed legs and boots with green stuff. i got some fancy new pliers that you can see in the picture. these made it really easy to place the wire without getting covered in superglue.



For the base I used a peanut paste lid for the platform and sculpted the pattern for the flooring from an air-dry clay medium, it didnt have the time restraints that green stuff does but doesnt hold the same detail.




It worked well enough and took the paint well , i expected it to be slightly absorbant but wasnt really at all.
it painted it in several layers of dry brush, wash then a few more layers of drybrush.



I painted the miniatures acording to the best i could match them with the costumes from the movie. ive taken some licence with the costumes, they are all costumes from the movie but are from different scenes. the blue get-up count rugen was in looked really silly with therest of the colours from the scene. so i switched out to a yellow and black number from the scene in the fire swamp.

I also took a little licence with the poses, as the way rugen was killed and just fell down was hard to depict, but as he was made to beg for his life, puting him on his knees seemed to make sense.

I felt that some scenery was required, so I added an overturned table and a book and a jug that were knocked off it. The table may be the single most expensive part in any bits box, it one of the clips that came with the modular gaming table that is made to hold the sections together. We dont use them so I decided to put it to good use. the legs are shafts from spears.

I then added a carpet to finish the room. here it the finished result!







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Thanks for having a look and happy voteing!