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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Donpimpom on May 24, 2010, 01:08:13 PM
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I'm on the process to create my two warbands for chaos in cairo.
When looking for the eternal slaves miniatures i didn't find anything matching the decaying feeling I was looking for.
Alll the mummies i have seen looked too well preseved, and even too agile.
Eternal Slaves are mummies of servants, so I imagine them as more decaying and rusted than a normal mummy,
they were mere slaves, so their embalming process could have some quality differences with a Pharaoh mummy,
cheaper bandages, worse resins, less skilled embalmers, etc after 3.000 years all that should turn into a not too nice and well preserved mummy.
So I decided to go ahead making my own conversions, and here you have the pics of the process,
the basis are the GW skeletons and zombies plastic sprue, many epoxy sausages and a lot of hours of fun.
I hope this give you some inspiration.
(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/473/eternalslaves.jpg)
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The conversion is simple but effective and I love the painting job :-* , especially the "flesh" of the mummy (How you did it?), overall great job.
Un saludo.
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Really nice work on these. 8)
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glad you like it :) the flesh it's essentially grey with a bit of blue to increase the cold/warm contrast between body and bandages.
Black on base, then a couple of layers of dark grey with a part of blue, then a midtone with more clear grey with less blue and finally
a couple of less opaque light layers of simple grey. I tried to avoid skin reflects and lights to give the dusty dead skin look.
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Very nice job! Love the skintone too.
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Real nice conversion… I would like to have the patience (or talent) to do stuff like this…
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I like those a lot.
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I like these a lot!
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Kudos. They are great, very well done and after the last two posts I had better say....
I like them a lot! :D
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Excellent conversion and paintjob
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I'll have to remember this for possible future use, very nice job! :)
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Guess what..... yep, I like them a lot too.
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really nice work, an idea well worth stealing, the ultimate compliment!
regards
jim
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That is too neat!
I play C in Cairo (but I have been using C in Carpathia rules, since the new C in Cairo rules are not out :-[ )
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Really ecellent stuff!
Gonna give this a go myself!
Well done
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That is too neat!
I play C in Cairo (but I have been using C in Carpathia rules, since the new C in Cairo rules are not out :-[ )
I just bought C in Cairo from Wargames Downloads.
http://www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=816&pics=2
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same thing, I bought both chaos pdf and print them.
Thanks for all your comments guys, glad you like it, I'm only trying to return a bit of the ton of inspiration i get browsing your post.
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Fantastic work.
Thanks for showing the three stages of each mummy.
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Simple, effective, informative and gorgeous.
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I play C in Cairo (but I have been using C in Carpathia rules, since the new C in Cairo rules are not out :( )
I picked mine up at Fall In - hard copy too as they had printed a few off for sale at the convention.
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Holy crap this is amazing! When I saw the first pic I thought "okay, pretty standard" then I went to the second and third pics and was completely blown away.
Amazing!
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I got question for additional information about how i made this conversions.
I paste here the explanation just in case someone wants more info.
The body is made with the Games Workshop skeleton and zombies sprue, and the bandages with epoxy putty, the usual yellow and blue, (this one is from GF9.com (http://www.gf9.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=165) ) as far as i know is a standar epoxy putty.
I used also a a sculpting lancet, to be more precise, this one
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1290201&prodId=prod1095464 (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1290201&prodId=prod1095464) but any other similar tools should work the same.
The process it's only a matter to do thin sausages and then wrap them around the mummy softly pressing to flat them.
Another option is do the sausages with more blue than yellow putty (the mix dries faster and is less sticky), wait the putty turns harder and then press to flat them before to apply on to the miniature, but that can only be done when the putty is harder ready to dry if done too soon the sausage will stick on the table and then is a mess to remove it.
So needs to be quite fast or at least in small quantities each time if you have 5 sausages drying at the same time very probably some will turn too hard to stick properly on the model.
That happened to me a couple of times, with these too dry sausages I made tiny cobras to make a cobra swarm base in a near future.
Nothing else, no secret formula, I invested around a couple of hours per mummy, by the way, do sausages is boring as hell :-(
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Nothing else, no secret formula, I invested around a couple of hours per mummy, by the way, do sausages is boring as hell :-(
Well, there's nothing boring about the result :) This MIGHT be the best alternative use of GW plastics I've seen so far. Effect is stunningly good. :-*
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When I saw the first pic I thought "okay, pretty standard" then I went to the second and third pics and was completely blown away.
Ditto. They even look like a bunch of lackeys. A shot of them along with the rest of your warband would be great. ::)
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Man, I'm quite impressed. I've a bunch of those sprues laying aroun for ages, and have done some conversions with them, but your ideas and models are by far the best I've seen.
Thanks for sharing.
but that can only be done when the putty is harder ready to dry if done too soon the sausage will stick on the table and then is a mess to remove it.
An old trick for this is to use a plastic bag and some water .
You spread a thin coat of water on the plastic bag, put your sausage on that and then press the sausage flat. Then you wait a little for the mix to harden and "peel" the plastic bag from the sausage. (Some people use vaseline instead of water, but then, once you remove it, the bandages may be a little greasy, and don't stick too well to itself or the model).
By the way, you can use a 50-50 mix, or as you say, use a little more hardener.
Hope that helps.
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Wow those are great conversions. What a great use for the GW zombie bits. I think I'll try my had at one.
Rob
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They're really awesome, very nicely painted to.
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Cracking stuff - a really simple idea, brilliantly done.
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Again, great work and well presented. I've tried various GW skeleton conversions over the years but have never been able to get away from the plastic gw look. However, you have shown that it can be done.
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after a forced long break I finally got some time to finish my CiC Mummy warband.
Here you have the second batch of custom eternal slaves, sorry no pics of the process this time.
(http://a.imageshack.us/img821/9230/eternalsgrup2.jpg)
All the slaves together looks like this
(http://a.imageshack.us/img225/2318/eternalslavesall.jpg)
In case you feel curious about the whole warband here you have all:
The Mummy Lord (Reaper conversion)
(http://a.imageshack.us/img705/904/mummylord1v2.jpg)
The High Priest (Reaper conversion too)
(http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1838/priest1vb.jpg)
Tomb Guards
(http://a.imageshack.us/img651/3903/tombguards.jpg)
the whole warband
(http://a.imageshack.us/img833/2302/mummywarband.jpg)
These are my first attemps of NMM gold and rusty iron, i'm not too satisfied of some, so any advice will be more than welcome :-)
Now is time to paint some archaeologist
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Absolute masterworks! Your slaves are especially nice! Really beautiful and I am tempted to try it.
EDIT: What colours did you use for these amazing bandages?
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EDIT: What colours did you use for these amazing bandages?
I use Vallejo Model Color, Flat Earth for the base, then Desert Yellow, and Dark Sand for the lights.
I would say is a quite common choice.
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Looks great... these are some of my favorite mummies I've seen... now you've inspired me! I have some 10mm skeletons sitting around somewhere...
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I use Vallejo Model Color, Flat Earth for the base, then Desert Yellow, and Dark Sand for the lights.
I would say is a quite common choice.
Well, I've never tried to paint a mummy, so that colour recipe is news to me. :) Thank you for letting me know. The bandages really bring your miniatures to life.
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oh! I was only trying to say the paints are quite common (and cheap), not special wash or inks from rare brands etc.
My only advice would be try to avoid drybrush as much as you can. I think is the big temptation when painting mummies, is fast and effective but I don't like the final look, if abused the mummy looks more like covered in plaster than wrapped in bandages.
I paste here a helpful pict i used as reference for the bandages (no idea about the source of the image)
(http://a.imageshack.us/img839/2659/monstersmummy.jpg)
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Stunning work, and the metallics look great to me.
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This is a great conversion job. I have a pile of GW zombies lying about, now I know what to do with them...
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I'll just add my little "they look so cool" to the chorus! Excellent work!
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Excelent work! :o :-*
A really nice warband. Your conversions are great.