The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

You’ve activated my trap base!

Beast 09 is a warjack that strikes fear into the hearts of Khador's enemies. He's disgustingly good on the table, and his model's no slouch either. Since I have Beast in my to-do pile, I thought I'd start work on 'em by reposing. However, I have a specific goal in mind: I want to sort've evoke the image above, right down to the base. To do that, the base'd have to be done first, so that I could then work on posing the elements of the warjack itself around it. The key element is the jack traps, which are the chained and sharpened logs which, I assume, are intended to trip up clumsy warjacks or serve as rough terrain. I wandered around outside for a bit, found some ideal twigs, broke out the jewelry chain, and started hammering away, and this is where I'm at:

 

It's not quite a picture-perfect match, but I think it adequately conjures up the image above. I was trying to be very careful about how I arranged the elements on the base, because I didn't want the jack-trap to stick so far off the base as to make it impossible to actually get in B2B with other models. I set the logs as far back on the base as I could bear to while still making sure that there'd be enough room for Beast to actually stand. I will probably build the surrounding terrain up a little bit more, but I'm letting all the glue holding that big mess of putty, cork, and ballast together dry overnight first.