Starting with a really old one.
Because it's good.
*cough*notjustbecauseIhaven'tgotanyrecentphotos*cough*
Many moons ago when the sun was warmer and dragons roamed the Earth. I was but a young Bel making my way through the steppes with naught but an axe, the skin of some fearsome beast for warmth and a chainmail bikini to eat.
Okay it was actually 2 years ago and I was living in Cardiff. Shut up it's my story.
On those barren and blasted post-apocalyptic plains I met a man. This man commissioned me to build for him a Chaos Space marine unlike any other.
While the actual details were up to me, it had to feature a Khorne berserker in a wheelchair. It was going to be a joke get well gift for his boss who had recently broken his leg.
And lo! This was lovingly crafted.
the client's boss plays World Eater Chaos Space Marines so I knew I'd be working with red, brass and skulls.
The chair it mostly made from layered sheets of plasticard made into a rough chair shape and then sanded smooth. The skulls on the back and arm rests are made using a stamp mould of a spare skull I had lying around. A few spikes from the chaos vehicle spikey bits sprue finished off the chair body. A pair of old ork big gun wheels finished of the ...well, the wheels..
You can only see the exhaust here but there is an engine built from a couple of spare ork bits strapped to that chair.
Hark at the painting from the days before I understood weathering, chipped paint or even how to paint half decent looking blood.
Last of all the leg cast is just good old green stuff. Patted with a bit of fabric to give it a nice texture.
I couldn't resist adding a little something extra to the cast.
Quite frankly, this is still one of my favourite commissions. I have learned a thing or two since then but it was fun to build, fun to paint and the client liked it. Would that they could all be this interesting.
If I had to do it again, I totally would. And I'd add more spikes.
~Bel.
