Manda’s (Amachan) Sacrifice to Hel

To start off I got a 130mm round, 3mm thick MDF base. I chopped the edges into a slope with a hobby knife and sanded that smooth.

And then since my whole army is going to be magnetized to be able to carry it with me, so will this scenery piece. So I drilled 4 8mm holes in the base and glued in 4 8mm round by 2mm thick magnets.

I will seal in the bottom of the base tomorrow with a coat of thinned PVA glue. I thin this to roughly 50/50 with water for sealing MDF in.

For a long time I’ve had my fantasy army the Order of Heimdallr and recently I started to plan and work on enhancing and expanding it for Kings of War. Now this army is also still for SAGA: Age of Magic, but I never actually made a terrain piece specifically for it. This project is going to change that.

I had a miniature of the Norse Goddess of the underworld Hel from Bad Squiddo Games for a long time and never done anything with it, that is going to change. I have found this image of a Norse statue, I highly doubt it is actually form that era, but I am going to use it as my inspiration. At least, the plinth or base of it. I am going to sculpt something similar out of clay and line it witch stones to get a similar effect. This project is not going to be very historical any way as it is for a fantasy army. On top of that will be a statue or the miniature of Hel with Jörmungandr which I will paint as a weathered bronze statue. In front will be the sacrifice, in this case the Blood Eagle miniature from Footsore Miniatures which I ordered for this project. I know the blood eagle is technically a high capital punishment and not a sacrifice, but it works for the setting. There will most like be some people praying or worshipping around it.

I will do my best when going through this project to list what I do and how I do it and hope I can get it finished before the deadline.