From: Josh Ashworth <[email protected]>
Somewhere in the Wood Elf book is a picture of a stone pile with lots of skulls on poles and runes all over. I had never seen one made before, so I decided to make one to go with my girlfriend's WE army. It was quite easy to make and looks impressive on the battlefield.
Materials I used:
Rocks - semi flat on one side of approx the same color
Cardboard
Paint
Bits - Azhag the Slaughterer's banner pole (3 or 4 from GW), human skulls (old leftovers from HeroQuest)
Start by collecting rocks with one semi-flat face. Glue two together.
Every time you sit down to paint miniatures or whatever, glue another rock to the formation. So in a short while, the boring part of gluing rocks will be done without wasting much time.
After giving the whole pile a final water/Elmers coat, paint it black. When dry, dry-brush it in shades of gray or brown.Next, make a small base using thin cardboard. After painting it green and flocking it, glue the rock formation on the base.
Runes can be carved into the rocks with the point of a sharp knife. If deep enough, the original color of the rock will show through.
Using wire cutters, the banner poles can be snipped below the orc skull and above the collection of little skulls to leave the plain wooden pole and the big orc skull. After filing the hair and little things off the orc skull, it can be glued to the banner pole and the two can be painted. As many skulls on poles can be added as you like as well as skulls just lying about. Painting runes on the skulls' foreheads makes a cool effect.
Even though it's pretty simple to make, it still looks impressive and very fitting with a WE army. The boundary markers could even be given magical properties like decreasing WAAGH! potency or something.
Jashole