Scratchbuilding broken wings – Forbidden Psalm
In this article I describe the process of making burnt wings from green stuff. I decided to make wings for my team for the Forbidden psalm event Turm 2024. I wanted to show a group of demons who would be prisoners released from prison, some kind of truncated wings suited my image. I couldn't find an adequate model online, so I decided to make my own.
I started the process by bending the copper wire in two parts, leaving the third straight - that should connect the wing to the rest of the model. I bent them into segments and then twisted each segment into a spiral, holding one end with pliers.
Once I bent both wing sections, which should be the very shoots that connect the wing membrane (not that there is any more), I bent the third straight section around the torn off part of the paper clip. I then glued that shape with super glue to fix it. Taking a few pieces of green stuff, I began to sculpt the mass into a shape that would bend around the wire, forming a wing shape.
Once I got the basic shape out, I waited for it to harden a bit. After about a couple of hours, I stuck a piece of paper clip into the model and glued the wing in its position. Once the wing was glued down, I lightly dampened the green stuff, added another piece to join the rest of the model and tried to even out the shape.
The modeling result is not messy, but that's not the goal of this warband either. The aesthetics of the game allow for messy and dirty, which I think turned out successfully. For example, if I was doing something like this for a game like Age of Sigmar or Infinity, I would put a little more effort into smoothing the lines and probably try to manage with some kind of membrane between the wing joints. Maybe one day I'll try a similar effect, until then I'll be happy with the experiment.
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