The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Get to da choppa!

Arise, ye slumbering beast, for I have tasty morsels to feed thee! Yesterday, this bad biker boss rode on in. Noze was all done with his part of it, so now it's just up to me to finish the model off. Here's what I got back:

 

Undeniably, unequivocally awesome work done by Noze there. But there's still work to be done!

Item number one on the list of things to do was a fancy, streaming banner behind the bike. I decided to texture the details on the banner with styrene, because I am a pretty rubbish freehand painter. The obvious upside to plasticarding my own banner details (in a fashion similar to what the Cadia banner has, for example) is that painting and washing it will be real easy. The obvious downside is that it involves the cutting of super-small, fiddly styrene. Still, it's a worthy sacrifice.

The banner was drawn up thus:

The sides of the banner would correlate to the biker boss himself, so for example the bionic mek-head side would be on his right (which is his entirely cybork half) and the fleshy part would be on his left (which is his still-orky half). I later decided to replace the fire on the robot half of the banner with lightning bolts, instead - the angular design helped differentiate the two halves of the banner better.

The details were then cut:

After a bit of crude fashioning, I was able to cut out the shape of a larger banner in thicker styrene, and bend it over my kitchen stove into a wavy shape. The details were then carefully applied with tweezers and glue. Thankfully, the styrene was thin enough (.012") that I was able to get the detail pieces to conform to the shape without too much fighting. This left me with what you see below:

 

This was followed by a bit more work, namely smoothing over the point at which the banner and the pole meet. I also took the opportunity to attach the handlebar that is not being held, and cap off the exhaust pipe that sticks out of the boss's sleeve on his bionic side. Last, I filed down one of the evil sunz icons from the older edition ork bikes until it was mighty thin, and glued it on his back between his shoulder blades as a bit of extra detail, since I thought that space looked a bit empty.

 

I probably won't be able to do too much more for the next few days because I have an exam coming up, and right after that I am hosting a wargaming event which I need to prepare stuff for.

When I do come back to him, I will be working on both ends of the bike. Up front, the bike's getting some more detailing, riveting, and maybe some brake lines to help fill in the dead space behind the forks a bit better. In the back, I'm going to be piling stuff up around the canvas roll, including a grot hanging off the back for dear life.

Then I need to base him, and then I need to maybe cast the head up so I have a spare to tinker with. If I can get a good copy, I'm going to drill the bionic eye out and light him.