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It's Worbla-ing Time...


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So I finally got all of the models together that would need to have worbla skin-trophies modeled on them and got the time to spend messing around with the stuff. Not going to lie, was not as easy as I wanted it to be. The main problem was that I was using a pair of metal tweezers to try to hold/place the worbla onto the models, but the tip of the tweezers would get hot and basically cut the worbla in half instead of holding it. I worked it out eventually, but it was annoying.  

 

I think the trophies turned out ok- they look like melted corn chips right now but that is just the color as the texture of the final product is just like any other plastic. Hopefully my paint job will look ok, but that won't be for a while. 

 

On the model front, I have the Contekar termies being shipped to me now, as well as the Ash Wastes Nomads boxes that will comprise my Cultist/Traitor Guard and next month I should have the final bits of the full 2k force shipped to me thought they will be part of the Ebon Word (which I may post here just because its the same army, but anyway...). As far as rules go, just today the CSM Raptors got a dataslate upgrade (probably because of the new Killteam) where they can have some additional heavy melee weapons (powerfist-equivalent), so now the chainglaives/heavy chainaxes will represent those, while four of the regular guys will have their bolt pistols technically be plasma pistols. Doesn't change anything as far as the modeling goes, but in-game the Night Lords Raptors will be quite a bit more scary against other marine-equivalent squads. Anyway, thanks for looking and next up will probably be some deluded mortal followers of the Shrikeborn.

 

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kabaakaba

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Yet another good job. They looks pretty scary? Mind to share how you make this trophies?

Lord_Ikka

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2 hours ago, kabaakaba said:

Yet another good job. They looks pretty scary? Mind to share how you make this trophies?

Worbla is a thermoplastic, so it has different properties when you change its base temperature. In this case, if you heat worbla it goes from being a fairly hard plastic to something much more malleable- you can bend/shape it and even mash it together to sculpt with (though it does lose temp quickly so you have to work fast). It is a product that is used a lot in certain crafting circles, I saw it used in both making custom dolls/action figures and in cosplay. It isn't too expensive to get, and all you need to change it's temp is a heat gun, so it is an effective way to add stuff like skin/clothes to models if you don't want to mess around with actually sculpting with greenstuff/epoxies. 

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