THe Kroot that Stole Christmas

[Commander Vyper]

A little background blog for my Christmas entry:

Well:

For a very long time now I had an idea to merge Dr Suess with 40k in the form of the Kroot that stole christmas.

I picked Kroot as they are probably the closest of the 40k races to the grinch, or at least basically similar.

So the bits languished in the box for ages and the concept floated around my brain like so many others.

Christmas comp came up and PING!! off I went.

Time taken:

1 day scuplting/building, (12 toys, sack, and Kroot's santa suit, hat).
12noon-8:30pm Christmas Eve painting and basing.

Things to note:


Spines/quills poking out through the santa hat.
Ogre belly plate buckle.
Fur edged santa's coat, (with hood)



Gifts:
Champagne bottle
Chocolate bar
Candy cane
Wrapped dolly/teddy (wrapping paper with mistletoe motif!)
Wrapped football
Tangerine
shortbread christmas tree
swirl lolly
various wrapped presents, (all tied up with GS ribbon and bows)

Santa's sack:

Constructed around the presents so there are some in there scuplted with ribbons and bows that will never see the light of day again but they're in there!)
Added a few patches on the sack plus on the kroot's coat.

I did intend to add a further two Kroot 'helpers', with big stripey scarves, and ear muffs ladden with pressies but no time. Also a Kroot hound with antlers would have been nice mtoo.

The rifle was going to get a strand of christmas lights wrapped round it but again time beat me.

Based with table salt fixed with PVA glue and a train scenery conifer for good measure.

I wanted to create a great all round piece , concept, execution and final paint finish...  capturing christmas and 40k especially in one hit.

I reckon the Kroot does that on all counts!



Cheers

The Commander

[knitemare]

I think it looks great, a job well done!  Very festive and cool looking.  It got my vote.

[bandit86]

mean old kroot

[JollyBob]

That's great, thanks for the walkthrough. I hadn't realised how much of it was scratch built.