The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

What’s weirder than two bases?

Wurrzag's another project of mine that fell on the backburner and stayed there for a little while, but it's been more than long enough to finish him off, so I'm getting off my lazy butt and doing it!

First order of business was to scrap the old base. Despite being relatively close to what I had originally pictured for the warphead's base, it was a bit too messy and not defined enough to suit my needs. It also left hardly any room on the underside for the requisite electronics I had to install, like a battery or switch. I went rummaging and came up with this old lid instead which is plenty roomy on the underside and had a nice flat surface for me to work on. Then, I grabbed some of my thicker styrene, cut a circle out with a jeweller's saw, and used the same saw to carve the disc into 'fragments' which I then roughed up with a knife and glued at angles pointing up towards the middle, to create a 'the earth is upheaving' look. A bit of putty underneath the pieces and around the edges, and viola, we have a new, much improved base.

 

The next step was to get Wurrzag onto the base. I managed to hide one set of the wires - the ones for his eyes - by coiling them around the rope hanging from his back and down into the base. The other wires that lead to the LED in the staff were twisted to look like rope and looped around the chain of one of the fanatics holding Wurrzag to the ground. The main supporting wire that holds most of his weight (the metal one) was subsequently disguised with the addition of a 'wrecking ball' weight at the end touching the base.

 

The only thing I am having a problem with right now is that visually, the front seems kind've open and empty. I'm considering maybe getting thin flying bases or some other relatively invisible support, crumbling some cork, and suspending rocks 'floating' in the air maybe an inch to half an inch off the ground on the base, to make it look like there's a whole lot of power going on.

Another thought I've been entertaining is to have that non-staff hand clutching something like a fetish. I have a squig foot I've been saving for a while from when I removed its legs and replaced them with tires... He could have a lucky squig's foot charm in the other hand, maybe.

More to come!