Not "Dune 1984"
I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. When the fear has gone, there shall be nothing. Only I will remain. On Shai-Hulud.
On the last weeks before the Tactica i wanted to do my sand-worm, shai-hulud. When i bought the revell ornithopter i also was lucky to get the sand-worm. At first i wanted to do it myself modelling the sand-worm by hand (could not be so hard). Well it was harder than i thought. So i stopped that. And then i wanted 2 sandworms: one emerging from the sand and attacking and one to ride by the fremen (this one still waits to be done).
So i returned to the revell sand-worm (i love that it is so nice in scale for what i was needed):
What i disliked, was that the model has a opening for the throat, but it was very bad executed. So i did it myself like in the first pic above:
And then i thought it missed the teeths, from which the fremen do crys-knifes (how do they get them?). So i took tooth picks and cutted them to size and form which i wanted. These i inserted in the green stuff or glued them inside the throat:
Worked quite well.
Next problem was the sand the sand-worm would emerge from. I thought about a rolling sandwave (do you know a way to model dust waves 😉 ?)
I painted the inside of the throat before glueing it inside the opening, because i was not sure if, i later could reach the bottom of the throat. Think, before doing.
I also primed the modell before glueing the throat in. Then i glued more tooth picks in.
The inside of the mouth was painted in a flesh tone and then washed with a sepia and flesh wash mix.
The skin of the worm was painted in a mix of flesh and light earth/sand colours.
Base in the same colour of the board.
I’m totally surprised myself with the result. And i think it was one of the key-models and most photographed models in the display on the Tactica. It played a vital role in the 2nd scenario, because the fremen with the thumper could call it in like a bombardment and in later turns it would randomly attack the non-fremen, who does the most noisy sounds 😉
So that is mostly what i did. I think all people at the Tactica who came by at our table loved it.
Pink Uncorn: doing an interview
Impression from the Tactica. By the way we have many visitor from the UK and neigboring countries.
The final result on the Sandworm I think looks great! Wish I could have seen the game played on the table.