Corpse building!

[Devil's Advocate]

ravener said:

I just finished 10 of my catachan. I think they look really nice, and your tips helped alot!

awesome!! get pics!!

(post on another thread and tell us how you did it!)

[Devil's Advocate]

The rippers started simple but quickly grew more complex.
I even cut myself fairly badly on this one. the scar is mostly gone now...

starting with the simplest:

Top
all I did was cut the little mounting base away from his tail, smoothed it out with an exacto knife and laid him down. not ENTIRELY satisfied, I drilled a hole behind his jaw, took a guardsman's bayonet, cut it down a little bit, and glued that in. (you can barely see it as the silver and broun handle sticking out behind the neck... bad camera angle)

2nd easiest:

Bottom
pleased with my first attempt, I decided that I didn't want them all to look as if the models were just laid down. I looked at the tail and realised that if I cut it at an angle, all I had to do was turn the tail around 180 degrees and it would fit on perfectly. so I did. VERY easy.

2nd most difficult:
Right
"this is workin now!" I think to myself...
so I cut the tail and reverse it like I did before. but the head isn't on right.
"lets be brave!" I say to myself... so I carefully cut down behind the first headplate, then I make another cut right behind the jaw. (I think I had to be careful not to cut the leg) I turn the head, just a little, and it works great! (you will notice that the head is slightly off-kilter from the rest of the body.. notice the brown tip on the top of the head plate)

Most difficult
Left
"that's getting too easy" I think to myself...
This model didn't need the tail cut and repositioned, so I cut off the head like before, only this time, I decide to cut the jaw off too (it was one of the open mouths) I thought I was careful enough, but the knife skipped off my thumbnail and buried itself in the spot where the skin becomes thumbnail... I had a NICE crescent-shaped cut...OUCH)
Still, I sucessfully cut the jaw off, laid it out... this was then the attempt at guts that DIDN'T work.. I rolled up some putty and let it trail out of the body, played with it to try and make it look right.. it didn't. still, I left it.

then I painted it the same way as I did the tau head gore (see previous posts), only with different colors:
Liche Purple, Warlock Purple, a dab of Imperial blue.
matte varnish the base, 'Ardcoat the blood and the rippers.

Note: most of the purple gore around the rippers, is actually just painted, blood-soaked sand.

hope this helps!

[ravener]

So the guts are just putty? Ill have to go try that out.....

[Devil's Advocate]

yes, they are just putty, and there is only one that does have putty guts. but I was dissatisfied with the detail.

some thoughts on putty guts:

Navarro made an exellent point, and had I thought of it, I might have done it and been a bit more satisfied.
Go slow, take your time, build it up.

make a few tubes and balls, lay them down one at a time. organs are soft so they will settle like a foldy sandwich bag full of water or (less messily) a plastic grocery bag full of sand.

(thanks navarro!)

[ravener]

Man i wish i could post pictures of their death posses. But, alas, i have no camera. And to think i still have ten more to do!

[hivefleetsiafu]

i so have to try some of the scythed in half marines especially sents my friend has a space marine army.. can u say mind warfare

[The Custodian]

um... necro? anyway didnt hive mind say this should be an article for the new site?

[WestRider]

Frankly, this is something I don't mind getting Necroed. I would actually suggest that this maybe get pinned or otherwise preserved. There's so much great stuff in this thread.

[The Tomato]

There are some things by GW that reminds this reminds me of, ill see if i can find them...

edit: found it
us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/painting/damaged_armor/other.htm

Edit: oh sorry, necroed thread...

[CoBrA]

That plasma gun meltdown looks super! I should give it a try on some old space marines.

[J.Dogg]

Something cool for melta victims is turpentine,Just drop an unpainted model in a bottle of tupentine and let him soak for a day, then take him out and let him dry before (if necessary) repeating the process.

[thepuritan]

for what it's worth...
i use the Toxin Sacs as my Tyranid larvae.

this an extreme closeup of one of my Ripper bases with some of the little guys on it.

done stripping that victim of flesh, and moving on to the next!

[WestRider]

Ooh, good idea. I think I'll try a Devourer victim using the Toxin Sac bits as the Fleshworms.

[Assimilator]

I have recently made a death scene on a dreadnought base it is imperial gaurd with his gun/ bayonet through a gaunts head..... unluckily for the guard the gaunt has driven both its scythes through his chest and right arm... ow! It looks really good even tho it is not painted it took me 3 months and a whole lotta green stuff. There is also a corpse on the base which is writhing in pain as lovely tyranid bio acid is slowly letting him die! I have made it look as if the face and armour is melting by putting a little plastics glue ( you know the stuff that bonds the plastic by melting it ..duh course you do! ) on his head and chestplate for about 20 seconds then with a stiff brush with nothing on it ran it down the glued areas it looks as if he is screaming!... while gargling up nasty acid MHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!.........OH MAN DO I HAVE A LIFE?

[CoBrA]

Can you post a pick of it? Sounds pretty neat.