Monday, August 11, 2014

Stalking around the dealer's room


I guess I will be doing quite a bit of that this weekend at GenCon.  It's going to be very busy for me!

To make sure that I had some files on hand for blog posts when we are in transit tomorrow, I snapped tons of images on the new Hangar 1 backdrops.  Once again, images that were not possible until now!


I loved this unit of Stalkers for my Tomb Kings.  They are heavily converted, as you can see.  The pillars match those on the display board.


The unit was designed to go in a very specific spot on the display board, right underneath a recently dug hole into the Tomb Complex.


There are some WIP images of the conversions here:


Then I had to see what they would look like on the brown backdrop.  I knew that the greens and blues would be showcased a great deal :-)


For those not familiar with the theme of the army, it is essentially a Tzeentch tainted Tomb Kings army.  There is an entire story written for the army, which can also be found in the Tomb Kings section.


The bases and movement tray are all sculpey, of course.  Once again, many WIP images showing how all of it was made.


The Hieroglphs around the edge say "Those who enter the Tomb Cities of Pseusenes shall suffer a fate worse than death."


A pity that they were so awful in combat.  Well... that's just about all of the Tomb Kings units.


Next up... Necro Knights!


Pillars of time


There have been in incredible amount of things to try and get ready for GenCon.  Doubt if all of that is going to happen, but at least I will try!

This set of bases is supposed to be for the new Holy Orders faction from Wild West Exodus, which they are unleashing at GenCon!


This is pretty standard Sculpey stuff here.  Cork on the bottom, a layer of baked Sculpey on top!


Trying out a few different designs...


I want to try to create a lectern on one of them.  I will be sculpting a big book to go there!


I also want to have some marble columns.  I rolled out some tubes of sculpey, so that I could carve and weather them as needed.


While the clay was still soft, I cut some lines into them to create sections in the columns.


These smaller pieces are going to be the bases for the columns.  I will carve them after the clay is baked.


A whole set!!!


Another big tile with lots of Sculpey for baking.  Most of this is for use at GenCon.

This was also my first time using the new over to bake sculpey.  It seems like it sent well!  It's way easier to see what the temperature is, that's for sure.

Wish me luck getting to GenCon!!!