So, last week I promised you some more photos of the War Altar. Well, here they are.
Constructed with parts from an Arcane Fulcrum, a Garden of Morr, two War Altars, and ten Flagellants, this things weighs in pretty heftily on the "Oh my goodness, I spent how much on this?" scale of things. Not to worry though, I'm really happy with it : )
The wings are from the War Altar kit, and if you look closely you can see the names of some of the Empire gods on there, including my favorite - Morr!
The base is made from two of the 100x100mm Temple bases from Dragon Forge, and the chains attaching the flagellants to the big hunk o' wood are also from Jeff. Thanks for your sponsorship of this project!
Using Flagellant bodies and "plague Doctor" style heads I sculpted (as had cast), I added another five men to get this beast of a thing to move. I may eventually go back and add a few more.
You may have noticed all the open hands on the "pushers". They came from the "pullers". I had to clip nine of the ten open hands off the guys in the stocks, and replace them with fists. That was fun, I can tell you. Here's a shot of the guy with the one remaining open hand, I like to think he's waving to the kids in the crowd this thing no doubt attracts.
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Cheers
Dave
A fantastic work. I like quite a lot the idea and the way you have developed it.
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Oh my...
ReplyDeleteThat is the coolest War Altar I have ever seen!
Great job pulling together all the parts to make this beast.
Awesome job as always.
Outstanding. I admit to being a bit uncertain when you first mooting the idea as the bit of terrain at its heart looks a bit cartoony and over the top (which a fair bit of GW terrain does unfortunately), but you have pulled it off excellently and I love the finished piece.
ReplyDeleteShame there wasn't more room at the front for my flaggelants to pull it as a big mob of them dragging it along I think would of been nicer.
If that thing's made of carved stone, those flagellants are going to get tired quick! :)
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful. You really have skills I can only drool over.
Fantastic, one the best models I've seen this year so far. Gloriously warhammery. Worth every penny spent on it, I would suggest!
ReplyDelete"Gloriously Warhammery", thanks Mr Saturday, that's exactly what I was shooting for : )
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Dave
That it an amazing centerpiece model. I so have a question. though.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like if the chains attaching the flagellants are real chains, if that is the case, how do you paint them? Do you do something to stop them from moving around so much or what?
The chains were attached to the Altar first and primed when it was. Once I glued down the Altar and flagellants, I draped the primed chains over the stocks and glued them in place. Then I snipped off the excess chains. Once everything was dry, I slapped a fairly thick coat of black paint over the taut chains, followed by a coat of Hammered Copperand then Glorious Gold. There's still a bit of play in the chains, but not a lot.
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Cheers
Dave
Utterly amazing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Might have to pinch some of those elements for my own Space Marine chapters terrain. Now with the option to buy the fortress, I can see some of these elements added to that would look quite awesome. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteAwesome piece.
ReplyDeleteEpic! I was planning on doing something similar with flagellants for the Nuln War Altar of Sigmar (that is how Alan Bligh described Nuln using it in Tamurkhan). Great to know I can get the chains from the same place I can get the bases from :D
ReplyDeleteGood stuff Dave!
Very nice. Very impressive and I think it should be War Altar of Mor.
ReplyDeleteTony
Outstanding! What a tremendous achievement on all levels; a masterpiece Sir!
ReplyDelete'Waving to the kids in the crowd' lol, hilarious!
ReplyDeleteUnbelievably amazing work as always Dave!
Just spectacular, Dave. From concept to model to paint, absolutely incredible.
ReplyDeleteThis is phenomenal ! Great work as always...
ReplyDeleteI think I just became a follower, but find the whole using Yahoo ID to sign in to Google account to join Blogspot blog unnecessarily complicated :(
ReplyDeleteBeen reading for years and suddenly suspect I might've joined ages ago. I submitted some designs for your tattoo competition (don't worry, I'm not offended that you don't remember me ;) )
Oh, and I don't know if this is the right place for it, but I'd like to put in a vote for seeing more of your WW1-style IG army. I'm so tempted to build one of those for myself :)
Chris*ta
Absolutely fantastic (as though it's ever anything else)! I particularly like the use of the pilloried flagellants being used to draw the altar along, that's a great use of the minis! Combined with the corpse handlers rolling the wheels along from the back the whole model has a great sense of motion for something so big.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the great work!
Thank you everyone for your gratifying comments!
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Dave
Great looking model as always. Great attention to detail and I'm going to have to stare at the bronze for a long time to try to duplicate that effect.
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