#15 Its a Purple Worm!

Here it is, a Purple Worm.  Not a very exciting miniature.  It was an expensive one though.  I ended up getting a speeding ticket in the mail that I got on the way home from picking this guy up.  From what I could find on the internet this is a 1982 Giant Worm miniature released by Citadel.  I guess I can add the Games Workshop tag to my post now right? Any ways what can I say about this other than its a terrible sculpt.  I only say this because I know I can do better than this, and I have.  It wasn't fun to paint, just layering purple, then purple with black wash, then layers of more purple.  The base I made out of Hirst Arts Castle Molds. It looks like the base is 3''x 3'' but its actually about 1/3 smaller than that.  I thought it would look weird if I based him on to large of a base since the mini isn't as huge as it is supposed to be.

The Hideous Maw of the Worm

Woodland Base Inserts (WIP)

I have been looking at some basing ideas for upcoming projects, and came across one on a blog for some woodland basses.  I have a couple of half-lings and wood elves that I thought would look good on a base themed that way.  I pulled out my putty turned on Jurassic Park and started sculpting a couple of logs and stumps.

I sculpted the stumps on little plastic discs I made that slip into the lipped style bases.  Its just a nice way of doing it to make sure that the material is flush the with disc.  The way I made them is just old plastic packaging.  I apologize now for the poor photos, it was late at night when I did these and didn't feel like setting up to take good pics.