Rise of the Ratkin - A custom based Kings of War project

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Project Entry by Greyhunterlp

The First units

July 26, 2022

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So this will be my second Kings of War army – the other half of the war in the holds box set, the Ratkin.

For this, I decided I want to push my 3D modelling skills a bit and do custom bases for each unit.

I’m using the free 3D modelling program Blender for all of this.

First up are my Shock troops (with spears) and slaves/warriors. These had fairly sedate bases as I needed to fit a good number of troops on.

Not that I wasn't able to set the tone.

Next I added Skuz. Skuz has a massive rock under his foot that I needed to model around. This meant some careful measuring and use of blanks to make everything fit - then some added sand/cork rubble to mask the join.

Vermintide are also a useful unit to have, but there is no model that exists that really does justice to a horde of rats coming for you - so I made one!

For my tunnel runners I had an idea I wanted to exacute, but with the size of the models I had to make a scaled mock up to pull this off. I also did a sewer cover surfing base for my Warlock and a basic one for the Night Terror.

This is one of those models that's really hard to get a good photo of, as it's a great affect, but needs to be seen from multiple angles - this came out pretty much as I saw it in my head and I'm well chuffed with the result!