Day 5

Back from the Colonial now, which was great. I won a gaming table. It's huge and I have no space, but it's pretty good-looking.

Only worked on the squigs for a short while - decided that the tails had to go on the wolfsquigs, and that I really should work on covering the fur. The hardly looks like wolves at all anymore.

Things remain on the dire side, though. My new self-imposed deadline is to have the boars and wolves done by the end of next weekend and get them and the plastic spiders at least primed.

Day 3

The theme of the day is cheating...
Cheat #1: I'm blogging at work. I probably shouldn't do that.
Cheat #2: I didn't do any work on the army yesterday (too busy gluing shields and making all my bases match for the Colonial GT this weekend), but did do some after my last post, so I'll post those pics instead. Just messing around with the boarsquig design, only did these 4.
Cheat #3: I'm not going all squig, but will instead cut corners and use some spider riders out of the 7th ed box.
Cheat #4: The giant spider that my lucky little goblin BSB gets to ride... well it's not only built already, but painted as well. It's made of coathanger and cork, so it fits the theme as far as that goes. I'm definitely using it, the only question is whether or not I should try to incorporate this somewhat creepy craft supply item I picked up.
Cheat #5: Only a potential cheat so far, but if I'm seriously running out of time, I'll be using a Forgeworld spiny beast as my great cave squig. I was hoping to use this list once or twice and then sell on Ebay, but that will definitely not be the case if I have to use my FW beast.

Must...finish...work...

Day one

OK, it's really Day 4 from the start of the conversion process, and something like Day 20 from the time I officially decided to do this. I'm still in the process of learning this thing, and realize that my time would be better spent actually working on my squigs than blogging about it.

Here's the skinny - I've got until June 1 to whip up an entire army from scratch, using the theme of everything squiggly. All orc and goblin units are to be replaced by big ol' squig proxies. 66 models in all, and I've already decided to break my one rule and use the spiders from the 7th ed box set as spiders rather than try to make some spider-squigs. I'll post more about the list later, but for now I'm going to try to post some pictures of my very first efforts. Currently, I'm sitting about about 5% of modelling done, 0% painting done. Things are dire.

Here's the starting point for the wolfsquigs and the initial puttying and further more puttying.

Here's the starting point for the boarsquigs. Unfortunately, the boar squig chariot will not fit the large hind end of those fellas, so I had to use a different version of the cold one for chariot steeds.

The trollsquigs are going to be hilarious, I hope. I'd love to get the rest of the model to mimic the gravel texture. That 2-part plumbers putty sets REAL fast. Three minutes or so... not a lot of room for finesse work. Luckily, it hardens solid as a rock.

For the great cave squig and squiggiant I tried some different plumbers putty. It's been 48 hours and no sign of setting yet. Plan B may launch soonish. Too bad - the negative impression of the Elmer's glue bottle makes for a really funny mouth.

OK. 22 minutes from the time I started uploading the pictures to this final line, and that includes a software install. Dunno if I'll keep this up throughout the process, but the odds are only slightly worse than those for having this army turn out as cool as the version in my head.

Edit Hmm. The links to my photos just open the whole catalog for anyone to view - good thing I have no naughty images in there. Or maybe it's just sad that I have no naughty images to post. Anyway, I'm leaving things as is for now, and will learn better tricks on another day.