Mangler Squigs

Here we have the first mangler I made after a bit of priming. I didn't like how the feet came out, so i broke them off at the arches and redid them with greenstuff. I added what I intended to be gore dripping from its mouth with greenstuff as well.

This was the second one, Like the first, the main body is sculpey with the eyes and front parts of the feet are green stuff. Rather than having Empire milita soldier bits hanging from its mouth, I used skaven bits to have one trying to escape.

Here we have the beasties with some paint on them. 

I gave up on the its of gore dripping from their mouths. They looked more like tumors hanging off the lips than gore. Maybe if the squigs weren't red it would have looked better. The process was fun, but my sculpting skills need work. 

All of the enthusiasm. None of the time

Since I traded off my tomb kings, I now have LOT of unpainted orcs. Aside from a bunch of black orc, savage orcs, wolf riders, spider riders, and boar riders, I picked up another doom diva and a couple of rock lobbas. Looking forward to working those into my list once they're painted. I especially like the named savage shaman (whose name I forgot). I'm working on a raised base for him. What I did not get was mangler squigs.

So what did I do? I decided to make my own. Sadly, I did not document the process well. To start, I ordered some 60 mm bases and bought some sculpey. Making the body of a big-ass squig was easy, but the legs, feet, and teeth were not so easy.

The first one came out passable, though i wasn't happy with the feet, and I made him with a closed mouth to solve the teeth problem. I inserted a human hand sticking out of one side of the mouth and a foot sticking out of the other, It came out...okay.

The second one almost got thrown away. The feet were awful, I baked the sculpey too long, and the whole thing sagged forward in the oven, giving the bending the poorly sculpted feet. Instead of trashing it, I broke the feet off at the arch and re-sculpted them out of green stuff. It was far easier to make squig toes and claws with green stuff than sculpey.I added a skaven head and hand sticking out of the mouth t round it out. It looked so much better that I repeated the process with the first one.

So I've finally got these two awesome squigs and no time to paint.