Tutorial - Cobblestone Bases!

Hey there! I haven't posted anything last week due to the total lack of time for myself and for my hobby, but today I give you a little tutorial about making cobblestone bases like mine!
Cobblestone bases are perfect for games set in any fantasy urban setting, would it be Mordheim, Malifaux, gdr like D&D or anything else and are also really easy to do!
So grab your bases, your tools and your green stuff (or any other putty you use) and let's start!

Simply start making a little ball of green stuff, putting it on the base you wanna use (here I used 20mm bases but any measure would work).

Then just press it against the base, making a little gs disc out of your little ball. Remember to always wet your tools when working with green stuff, otherwise it will stick everywhere making your work really hard. Once you have made the first disc simply continue adding the others, varying in size and making all a little irregular.

After some work, the base will start to take shape, just continue to fill it with gs discs untill it's full!

Once finished it will appear similar to this one! Now you just have to let it dry. If you have to make a large army with these bases, it's my suggestion to leave it like this one. Otherwise, if you want to add a little more detail, you can add drains, wood planks, ruins and everything you think it would fit onto your cobblestone base!
I've decided to add a little metal drain on my base, so I've waited for the gs to dry and then started placing a gs ball onto it!

Then I've started working it to take the drain shape. I wanted to make it square, and after a little work it wal like this!

The drain was slowly taking shape I only had to add the metal bars and some rivets and it was done!

You can add anything you like to these bases, it's pretty easy! Just look some of mine if you need inspiration:

I hope that this little tutorial will be useful for you! If you have any question please write it down here in a comment! This is all for today! Like, share and comment if you liked this post! Bye!!!

The Dead Awaken 4 - The Third Dreg

And here's the last post related to the heroes of my warband! One dreg's left and it's a particular one! When I started thinking of the model for my last dreg I choose to make something different from the other two. The Vampire needed a real warrior, a trained and strong soldier to defend his lair in the hours of sunlight. Sadly I couldn't change the stats of the dreg that are... poor? So I made a soldier, yes, but an old and tired one, a Sylvanian noble too afraid of death to remain loyal to the Empire during the Vampire Wars, pledging his alliance and servitude to a strong vampire who could give him the gift of eternal life. 

I've started as always searching in my bits box and what came out from there were bits from the old empire spearmen.

So I had the base for the model. I haven't made major changing to this with the gs work, because I intend to represent the "oldness" and the "traitorness" (lol!) of the miniature painting it more than modelling it. So after a little gs work here's the finished model!

It's a simple and fast work, but I think that fits his role well! 

See you next friday on my blog! Thanks for watching my content! Share, comment and follow! =D

The Dead Awaken 3 - The Hunchback Dregs

Hi everyone! I want to show you the next two heroes of my warband! Two poor dregs! It took me a lot of time to decide how two make them, the original Mordheim models are quite ugly but with a good vintage flavour, so finally I took my bits box and searched for inspiration in those plastic pieces.
 I wanted at least two of the three dregs of my warband to figure similar to the original ones, so with a bit of imagination (and glue) I've started working on the first one:

I wanted to make him like a miserable and quite dumb hunchback, so one of the corpses' heads of the corpse cart was perfect for represent a stupid creature. Plaguebearer's arms were good for a deformed man, so as the old night goblin's kit torso. The legs were from a spare chaos marauder. The base of the first dreg was made! It needed some fixing and it was ready!

So after some work he just needed a bag full of body parts and various equipment for the vampire to use (by background is likely their only use, searching for useful objects and carryingthings for their masters). And the first dreg was done!

The second dreg is armed with a two hands axe, made from a chaos marauder's one and to add a comic tone to the model I've represented him with two tiny arms (from the corpse cart) and with a fatty belly.

So after adding an horrible haircut, some bags on his back and resculpting the fingers on the axe staff also this guy was done!

Well, that's all for today! Hope that you enjoyed my works! Stay tuned for next week!

The Dead Awaken 2 - The Necromancer

Every good vampire in the Warhammer universe needs to be accompanied by a powerful necromancer, so who was I to stop this trend? So I started searching for a possible way to represent a dark warlock in a Tzimisce way, but in the end for my personal attachment to the classic figure of the necromancer and his minions I chose to keep him old style. So I took an old corpse cart I bought for making a Nurgle chariot/ Altar which had a little shrouded guy driving it and it was nearly done!
I had to rebuild the necromancer's staff, fix some details and add others (like the corpse-parts purse on his right). Finally I've made a scenic base that would rise up a bit the little and crouched miniature using a skeleton decoration of the corpse cart.

So here's my Necromancer, ready to  conquer the dark arts of the dead for his vampire lord. I can't wait to paint it! Hope that you like it! Comment, share and like if you want! See you next friday guys!

The Dead Awaken 1 - The Vampire (Blah! Blahblah!)

Hello everyone! After a long pause with my hobby for university commitments I've left apart the old projects to start a completely new warband for my Mordheim campaigns: Undeads!
I've never played or had interest in the warhammer world's vampires, but after I've joined a Vampire: The Masquerade (White Wolf's gdr), the inspiration for a Tzimisce Vampires (one of the vampiric clans of the gdr) warband rose naturally!
So I took some spare bits from my bits-box and started brainstorming in search for ideas for the first hero of the team: the vampire! I've surfed a bit the network and then I've found this beautiful artwork from Tim Bradstreet.

I had the artwork, I had the bits and the greenstuff, so I've started working putting bits together!
The base model I took was from an old Empire Cannon/ Mortar set that I had unused since I bought my first Warhammer box. In particular it was a mix of the cannon crew bits:

So with a bit of work I've cleaned the model and started working on hair and armour plaques:

I wanted my vampire to be as menacing as the artwork one, but I had to apply a bit the WYSIWYG and in my warband the vampire has an heavy armour, a sword and a shield, so I've choose to position and clothing changes in my model.

The vampire was slowly taking shape with foot and chest armours finished and the dress and arms in progress, (Yes, he looks a lot like Mickey Mouse with those big hands and thin arms.)
After some work on the guy and the realization of a proper base (which I choose to make like a cobblestone road with a metal sewer cover.)

Now this guy is ready to be painted, get a name, a background and start terrorizing the citizen of the Empire! 

I've in program to make a cobblestone base tutorial soon, cool for sewer and urban bases! 

Comment, like, share and follow if you found this post good (or bad XD) and see you next friday here on The Hamster's Lair!

Hello Word 2.0

New name, new logo, new style... the blog once called "The Inner Plane" has changed shape into a beautiful (and really Evil) Hamster! 

Why all these changes? Because when I newly opened my abandoned blog with the idea of start writing on it again I thought that it would have needed a complete restyle. I chose a new name, more ironic than the last one, and more "fantasy" due to the theme of the blog, and so the new site came out from nowhere! (actually it took me a lot of work, but it was really fun!)

So welcome back if you were already my followers and simply welcome if you are new to "The Hamster's Lair"! I hope you'll enjoy reading my stuff and don't forget to share, comment or do whatever you prefer if you like what you see on this board! See you at the next update!

Next Week...

...THE DEAD AWAKEN...

Projects day

Hello everyone! Sculpting duel time!

Today I've started working on a little model for a challenge with my Studio Colleague! Some days ago we've found an amazing artwork from google representing the Grim Reaper, and the first thing I thought was: "Let's sculpt it!"

The artwork is this one, from Lostprophetxtian but with some modifications. The terms of the challenge are:

1) The model has to represent the artwork.
2) The model has to be in 28mm scale
3) The model has to have a skull under the hood
4) There is no time term due to the challengers little free-time

So, today I've started working on the armature of the model and tried to do a decent skull

It's the first time I try to sculpt one of these, so I think I'll exercise a little bit more before going on with the model's head, but for now, the winner is the second skull!

So, the work is still very long, but I'll keep you updated on the sculpting progresses from me and my rival! See you the next post!