Some conversions require dedication, yep, that's right, dedication.
The venator bounty-hunter for confrontation are not a gang you cast "resurection" on that easily...
I took some plastic bits anddid some dry builds (well with some blue-tack) for them during new year's eve :
but I was looking for some proper heads.
This resulted in me trying to steal the heads of other miniatures by taking prints and casting them in resin but it proved to be quite a failure as you can see in that post.
The idea of making the band has no left me at all so I took a little trip on the background side of the venators to see what could be done.
The necromunda redemptionists are going to offer their heads in sacrifice to the Venators but Mutantdale made me feel remorses about cutting the heads off of them for this purpose only. So I decided to go back on the copy way...
This time it would be pressmoulding.
After some very interesting discussion with Shoebox, I opted for Oyumaru and greenstuff and used this tutorial by the very same Shoebox.
Oymaru is the exact same product as instant mold, the only difference being it is not sold by the same companies and comes out with silly colors.
I opted for Oyumaru because :
- It's cheaper
- You can have many colours (though it has no impact on the modelling whatsoever)
- It's japonese (Yes I'm that superficial)
Basic ingredients are simple :
- Some Oyumaru sticks (I used the pink ones because my daughter asked me to)
- some models
- some hot water
- 3 minutes
Pour some hot water in a mug and make yourslef and your wife/husband a nice cup of tea with the rest.
Cut some oyumaru pieces and put them in the hot water for 3 minutes.
Put the pieces in sime absorbant paper to avoid having water drops on it.
And then apply them on the heads of the models like a maniac, screaming horrible things in a mad laughter...
Well now you will see how the dreaded pink-blob gang is far superior to the blue-blob head gang...
Forget the flashes around the heads, this will be fixed, i even think I'll do another batch ut making sure the oyumaru mould is perfect, I kind of rushed on the first batch and I've lost some details but second batch should be good. I'm really liking how things are turning out. The lady on the far right side won't have the complete masl but just a part like a sort of venitian mask.
While I was at it, I also built the 2 nobles I had in mind :
They will have fancy hairdo like this :
or this
If I manage to sculpt them of course...
Apart from that, you can see here that the nimber of Work In Progress is quite high on the table at the moment.
- 20 red redemption cultists
- 9 chaos androids
- 7 sensei gangers
- 1 sphincter beast
- 1 plastic Kaleb Daark
- 1 adventurer paladin
- 1 adventurer cleric
- 10 marauder archers
- 10 chaos warriors
- 1 chaos lord
- 12 slaanesh cultists
- 3 dark elf crossbowmen
- 2 minotaurs
- 1 wizard
- 1 chaos grav-attack
Hopefully I should be able to lower the number a bit...
Just when I didn't need anything more on the "to do" list , I decided to build bases for my chaos dwarf swivel guns... (sorry about the very bad pictures but you get the idea)
I guess I can consider myself busy for the time being... ;)
