The Scurvy Rats - WIP

Slinky78 · Post by **Slinky78** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:03 pm

That rat ogre is 10 times better in real-life. No offence to the photographer, but that fails to do it any justice. I can't talk about the technicalities of sculpting, but from a purely aesthetic point of view it's one of the nicest miniatures I've seen for a long time. I bought a gw rat ogre a couple of weeks after seeing it and I definitely prefer the green.
It is a ref underneath I believe. If I have one minor negative it could be that the ref seems a bit 'flat' - but then you would be with an ogre stood on you... I feel almost embarassed to point out that minor dislike because the rest is awesome, but saves me being accused of bias

Fubar · Post by **Fubar** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:38 pm

Thanks for the comments... More photos to follow after the weekend. Hopefully by then the gutter runners and the apothecary might be ready to paint!

The ref under the rat ogre was sculpted a long time ago, so he is a bit simplistic - no time to sculpt another one though. Only two weeks until the tournament

Thordallim · Post by **Thordallim** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:32 pm

Probably squashed or crushed into the soil

really great work

Post by **Dave** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:55 pm

dunno anything else .. just ..

Emberbreeze · Post by **Emberbreeze** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:07 pm

Slinky78 wrote:No offence to the photographer

Clearly Mike is still getting to grips with my digital camera

after his was nicked

I hope salute doesn't get in the way too much this weekend, I'm keen to see what you do with the gutter runners

Axtklinge · Post by **Axtklinge** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 9:52 am

Congrats!
The rat ogre is looking very very nice indeed!
And that makes me wonder about the rest of the team...
From the pics I can see that there was some sculping in the bodys of the "regular" skaven, bur they're not close enough to tell what was done...
It would be nice if you could post some pics with more detail of the bodys and a "snapshot" of the whole team!
thanks

Cheers
Axt

Emberbreeze · Post by **Emberbreeze** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:30 pm

I've got a bunch more pictures Mike took on my camera. Don't think he will mind me posting them. This may take a while on dialup

Post by **Dave** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:30 pm

dark picts but they look mightily cool

Blitzwing · Post by **Blitzwing** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:14 am

They look great, especially the one with the "Ate all the pies" physical mutation.

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:07 am

Skavenlike colors IMO

I like the ruined look of the cloths.

Good ! Thanks for the picts !

Traveller

Fubar · Post by **Fubar** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:27 am

Thanks for putting those up Emberbreeze

The idea with these guys was to create a team where nearly all the players are unique in some respect or other, whilst maintaining the overall theme. It's taken bloomin' ages, but they are finally coming together now, and I think they've pretty much came out how I hoped they would. I'll try to take a few photos when they are all finished after the BB, hopefully I will have had my camera replaced by then!

I have to thank Slinky78 for inspiration on the colour scheme, but I am pleased with how it's turned out! I'm sure his Chaos dwarves wont mind having had their kit stolen... Nearly there, but only 5 more painting evenings to get this lot finished

Ziggi Abschuss · Post by **Ziggi Abschuss** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:22 am

Dont know what to say really.
Very nice skaven and how about that rat ogre (one more

)
Great work!!!

Ziggi

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:57 pm

WHOA! Thats a fantastic sculpt!

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:47 pm

Amazing team great job,
Just curious but do you have some way of teling the postions apart looking at them i couldn't figure anything out.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:48 pm

Painted base rings! (should always be used on conversions)

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The Scurvy Rats - WIP

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