Pretty little ghouls
(June 2016)
I've had a few older style GW ghouls for many years but never enough
for a complete unit. More recently I received some GW plastic ghouls,
you know, the hunched over ones that look nothing like the old metal
ones. It took me a while, but I worked out how to make the new plastic
ones look more like the old ones with a bit of putty and glue.
I wanted them upright like the old style ones which caused a bit of a
problem. The new plastic ones look more like beetles to me, all hunched
over, so I straightened them up by adding some guts with greenstuff and
shaping and refitting the arms into the sockets. The heads still sat too
low on the necks so I cut away the neck bit and made new necks with
putty. I had to do a fair bit of puttying to make them look reasonable
as you can see above.
This is the back rank. I posed the arms so that they were mostly by
their sides or flung back in ghoulish fasion to stay out of the way of
the front rank. I cut a few of the extra bones off them that they wore a
trophies
peircing their skin as this nonsense did not appear on the older style
ghouls. Even so there's alomst a whole skeleton on the back of one new
ghoul figure which I couldn't really remove without compromising the
figure.
This is the front rank with their arms reaching forward. I forgot how I
got the purplish colour on the skin so I had to experiment with a very
watered mix of red and dark blue to make a maroon colour. These guys
gave me a bit of trouble as every time I went to carve a bit of putty
off or clean a flash line, the body would come away from the putty belly
or the legs would snap off the putty belly. I ended put waiting for the
putty to dry, then pulling the legs away from the putty and gluing it
with superglue, then waiting for that to dry, then pulling the body away
from the putty and regluing that. I had to follow the same process for
the arms and the head as they all had putty bits between them and the
body.
This is a rank of the older figures . It seems I also put a little bit
of brown wash into the eye sockets at the same time that I washed the
bones, to give them that sunken look.
Here's all the figures together as a unit. I think I did fairly well to
get them to blend together. The colour scheme does most of the work I
guess.
Last of all I have this little fella which has been knocking around my
collection for many years. I suspect he might have come out of a
collection of GW Talisman miniatures I bought once. He's a little
different again so I've stuck him at the back :-)
