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Here's a shot of the front of the keep, showing the forbidding entryway.
The angled support brackets are made from part of a Japanese Frankensteela
toy. The column support is made of part of a sprinkler riser and
a roller from a dot matrix printer feed. The balcony is part of a
toy train car, detailed with spikes from the chaos Rhino sprue, some jewelry
chain, a shield boss from the plastic skeleton warriors regiment, and a
plastic keychain skull. I found the easiest way to make bound skeletons
is to glue the plastic skeleton to your scenery one piece at a time, then
wrap it with fine string and glue or tie the string in place. It
is easier to pose the skeletons one piece at a time, rather than try to
build them ahead of time and make them fit the scenery.
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| Every crenel of the towers has been filled with spikey bits, all from
the chaos Rhino sprue (I used almost 2 sprues on this project). The
spikes are somewhat fragile, so placing them in between sturdy components
(or under pieces like the top of the Warhammer Quest arch) helps protect
them.
The wooden platform in front of the door is made of coffee stir sticks
and small plastic half round beads for the rivets. The ruins are
another piece of 40K gothic ruins, with another unfortunate skeleton strapped
to the column in a manner similar to those above. The rubble is made
up of garden gravel, cat litter, and plaster castings of skulls and wedding
cake columns.
I haven't even discussed painting yet- the whole piece was primed in
black, then drybrushed with various shades of grey and light brown.
Additional streaks of green give it a mossy look, and help give some color
to an otherwise very monochrome piece. The wood parts were painted
dark brown and drybrushed with rust and tan. The metal parts were
painted dark brown, washed with rust, and drybrushed with steel and brass.
The skeletons were painted white and washed with light brown. |
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