Sculpting a Rouge Idol

Every now again the non-hobbyist in our lives walks in on something and says… “What the hell are you doing!?!”

I knew to support the the rocks that would make up the body I needed a stiff and rigid back bone… after who doesn’t like a big stiff bone eh 😉

After letting that dry out I could start to turn the rough shapes into more of what I want it to look like in the end

So first of all I started to carve up some straight edges to make it look more like rock, not so much curved but jagged rocks. I also took out chunks of the rock to make it look like they had been hit by the spears and swords of all the Orukks and grots that worship it and built the Idol

For the next step then I wanted to add in some of the final detail too, I was thinking to try and get the legs close to finished before doing to torso just for ease access to some of the parts.

So I’ve added in some of the Moss with green stuff, added some polypores at the back of the leg as I direct reference from the Forgeworld model and of course some skulls too

I’m quite happy with everything at this stage. I’m not wanting to add as much of the moss affect that is the is on the original as my bases of my Destruction army are fairly rocky anyway. I think I may add some more polypores to the back of the leg though in the same area, maybe some elsewhere too….

Hi there folks, today we will be sculpting our very own Rogue Idol

😉

This is a project I wanted to start because I have a lot of painting going on right now and wanted something that I could use to take a break from painting but still progress the hobby too. So something that can be used in all the Destruction armies I have is the Rouge Idol.
From Forgeworld this will set us back £69, not too bad but I wanted to see what I could do with £10 of sculpting clay… and so a project was born

The first stages here are the legs, this is very early days so we just have rough shapes for the various rocks. When this has dried I will start to add in details like carving the straighter sides into the rocks and fill in areas with skulls, mushrooms and broken shields etc

I am using the amazing Forgeworld miniature as a reference for this but I’m not trying to imitate it exactly.

I quite like the idea of a mad goblin standing atop this beast

Waaaagh!!