Sliver's Skaven (work in progress)

[The bearded one]

Plagued Rat Ogre

I hate your awesome guts, yes-yes! Stop-halt outperforming me!

[Sliver]

Long time since my last update, but I'm hoping to post updates a bit more frequently again.

At the moment I'm working on the heroes for my skryre inspired mordheim warband, which will also double as front rankers for my upcomming stormvermin horde.

Here's the first one, the warband leader. Wounds and warpstone eye representing the 'horrible scar' injury, cybernetic tail to represent an upcomming tail fighting skill.



Next up is a black skaven with warplock pistol, followed buy some giant rats and packmasters.

[mrtn]

That's a cool Assassin Adept!

[Astraeos]

That's one awesome Skaven!

[Mr.chair]

Great as always. I
ve been wanting to add a Skaven band to my Mordheim collection for ever. Maybe I can just live vicariously through yours instead

[pointyteeth]

Very nice! Love the warpstone eye.

[Kaos]

Wohoo cool big rat and assassin! !

I like the green you use for warpifire, its a bit different to most others use to do.

Cheers-Kaos

[Sliver]

Managed to get some pictures of my latest rats before going on vacation. Sorry for the delay, have had some issues with the camera I usually borrow to take pictures (had to get new batteries, just to realize that the I got the wrong cord for transfering the pictures to my computer, etc etc.

Here's the new rats.

Black Skaven with warplock pistol and eagle eye googles




Giant rats (hard to get hold of, but more giant than the current ones imo!)




Update pictures of the Assassin Adept (better quality, but still some shadowy parts due to the pose).



Next up (after vacation, so probably end of July) is some additional plagued monks, followed by some WIP pictures of assorted stormvermin based guys: a packmaster or two, a poison wind globadier, a fighting claw rat and some skryrified short style stormvermin.

And if Orcs are your cup of tea, my Orc Shaman will be finished by then aswell

[mrtn]

Nice salvaging of the wheelchair skaven.

[Astraeos]

Oh yeah, that is the old Doomwheel rider isn't it? I may not have noticed if mrtn didn't point it out first!
I think the GW store might have the old metal giant rats in the Skaven collectors models bit.

[Sliver]

Two new globadiers to accompany the old one. Hope you like em. Not top photos (but decent enougth), but I couldnt keep myself from posting until I get hold on a better camera then my phone.



One more fighting claw black skaven comming up shortly!

Thanks for watching, and sorry for the low amount of action lately. I'll try to up it!

[Astraeos]

I love how luminescent you make your lighting effects!

[mbh1127]

I'm so glad you're back


can I bother you for a few tips?

How do you paint your red?


And how do you get that warpstone glow color?

[Sliver]

I'm so glad you're back


can I bother you for a few tips?

How do you paint your red?


And how do you get that warpstone glow color?

Red/orange: White undercoat, home mixed basecoat (something like blood red, blazing orange, vermin brown, 2:1:1, not sure, long since I mixed it ^^). Highlights with blazing orange, then blazing orange+sunbust yellow, then certain sharp edges/tips with a tiny amount of sunburst yellow. And a coat of light walnut shader.

Warpstone: White undercoat, glazes of scorpion green, sometimes thin glaze of sunburst yellow, and sometimes a slight shade of snot green near the base of the object. For the glow, white glazes / highlights with some transparancy, and then a glaze of scorpion green. Its a bit tricky to get right. Practice is key!

Hope this helps!

[Toshiro]

Those are mind-numbingly good!

[azhagmorglum]

Excellent work as always. The luminescent effect is really great

[mrtn]

Those should get glowing reviews!

[Lord Dan]

Beautiful OSL on those globadiers. My favorite has to be the one in the middle, who appears to be frozen with fear at the moment he realized that he forgot to put on his gloves.

[Superdan21]

cannot for the life of me work out how i've missed this log, amazing work, your work pretty much epitomises everything i like about skaven and also why i'd never do a skaven army, cause i'd never be able to get the glowing stuff look anywhere near as good as that (that and the sheer number of rats required) I'll have a flick through the rest of the log but yeah great work

[Aéquitas]

Hey Sliver!

Skrits from the underempire here. Loving the new globadiers. I thought your painting couldn't improve but your highlighting on the latest batch (especially the back of their cloth) is even more awesome then your older models. Really dig the middle dudes pose and I love the right ones backpack.

Hope you will stick to painting Skaven for a bit instead of focussing on all those warbands you were talking about