The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Cleanup in aisle troll

 

You'll notice in full-body picture I have the torso held with a gap in the abdomen area - this is intentional. I'm going to make him stand a bit more upright, I think, both to make him bigger and to try and work around wonky troll anatomy - he has a pretty big bulge in the middle of his back where the hunch is that looks a bit silly. I'll probably sculpt that loin cloth up to hang a bit higher, in addition to putting stomach armor on, but all that comes later. For now, I have spent the past few hours carefully trying to dremel off those godforsaken spikes from his body. It's super-tedious, but I think it's coming out alright - I honestly didn't wreck the musculature as much as I was expecting. I've got some new putty, called Tamiya Epoxy Smooth, that I'm going to go over the skin with at a later date to properly resurface it, but I think I'm doing decent so far. Both legs have also had their spikes removed.

The choppa's not a bad fit for size, considering I made the axe before I had the boss. I think I'll make a new one, though, a bit meaner-looking, so I can stick this one in a body.

I've been tentatively thinking of names for this dude. I've only thought of one that I would consider, which is 'Big Boss Mungus', and that's kind've weak. I'm well open to suggestions, though.

Package attack

So, I got today's mail.

Looks like a dire troll mauler hitchhiked his way in the USPS Trukks all the way over from thewarstore. I suppose I'm going to have to make him a warboss now, eh?

I'm going out to buy proper dremel bits to grind away at those spikes later today, but I figured I'd practice some of my greenstuffing skills (or lack thereof) by making a relatively simple choppa. It's not really suited to being held by him, as he's so much bigger than I initially eyeballed - from elbow to base of the fingers is the size of a single boy!

Thinking it through

Just messing with ideas for the back. I'm not quite sure I know how this'd work. Perhaps I'd need to rig up some sort of device on his back to both power the armored fist and feed ammunition into the big shoota. A grot riding it's never bad, either.

I was actually thinking buggy tire guards would almost be an appropriate size shoulder pad for something like this, assuming I'm guesstimating at his approximate size accurately. I'll spend some time today working on this idea a bit more before I committ to it. I'd have to re-sculpt a lot of the musculature to hide where I ground down those body spikes, which may be an enormous pain.

Concept and planning

I saw this a few days ago and I've been thinking of picking it up and filing down the rocky/spiky bits on the shoulders and covering it with armor.

It seems a bit feral-boss-ish, but I'm thinking it's a good conversion idea to use as a base. The only downside is that it can't easily be made to carry 40k weapons or even a choppa unless I strapped that across the back. Maybe a wrist-mounted chaingun or something...

I sketched the drawing below out real quick, but as my wacom tablet is busted I had to use a mouse, which is why the sketch is a bit crappy. Part of the appeal of the idea to me is to have a ridiculously, ridiculously meaty boss. Muscles and the huge hands are actually a draw for me - even though the hands lack a digit, I don't really see that as too much of an obstacle because before today I never really even noticed how many fingers Orks have.

I have a hunch that with a bit of work I may be able to bend the fingers on the open hands inward to properly hold an enormous and massive choppa, and maybe mount a belt-fed or clip-fed big shoota on the wrist of the other hand that possibly had an ammo feed going to the back. I honestly didn't think I'd need to file the gut area down all that much - it doesn't look too bulgey from what I can see, though it might be good to sculpt a bit of abs/musculature over the upper stomach area to blend it in better.

The face'd have to be sculpted, which I imagine would be the hardest part of this conversion, but I think I'm up to it. My greenstuff-fu is weak, but it's a small enough thing that I think I could manage it - and if I screwed the face up too badly with the sculpting, I could always remove it and/or put bioniks on. The rest would be simple plastic armoring, I think.

Those rock-spikes would obviously have to go.

I kind've like the idea of some sort of radioactivity - I could probably blame the 4 fingers on that, as well as his enormous size. And since he's so big, he's thumped his way up the ork food chain till he became a boss. I'm working on figuring out how/where to get my hands on this model, as it doesn't look cheap at all. I can't draw a bionic hand in proper perspective to save my life, but I do like the general idea. If I were to put talons or spikes or something pointy at the end of each finger (like on this mini )I think it wouldn't look all that bad, and it'd let me put the choppa in the other hand.