A Recipe for Wracks

As you may have noticed, I've been posting stuff about pain counters and Grotesques and Raiders for the coven, but one of the main staples of a Coven force--the Wrack--has been conspicuous in its absence. However, that's not for lack of ideas. When Bob-o and I were sitting around brainstorming ideas for how to create things like Grotesques and Wracks before GW released their Finecast versions, I took a trawl through all of the plastic kits GW made with my thinking cap on, and I came up with a magical formula for Wracks:

Flagellant Legs

+Bloodletter torso, back spine, and 1 horn; 1 Savage Orc Bow:

...and that was as far as I got for a while.

In terms of kits, I had a bloodletter kit, a flagellant kit, and a crypt ghoul kit to draw on, and I knew I could find ample arms in those kits to make the wracks look suitably freakish, but what was really holding me up was the idea of heads. I wanted to give my wracks masks, either like the GW-issue wracks or like those awesome Reaver jetbike pilots. However I was at a loss when it came to how to get that smooth finish on them. I'm pretty good at smoothing putty, but I was less confident in my ability to smooth it into perfect curves.

Enter my modest progress on the Grotesques. I was fleshing them out and cleaning them up using apoxie sculpt, and I decided that it was probably time to give them some heads. I intended to use the extra heads provided with the Talos kit, and I thought they'd fit best if I produced a negative out of apoxie sculpt that I could attach them to.

...and that was when I realized you could create a pretty decent head by pressing a lubed-up Talos mask into some wet apoxie sculpt.

After that it was easy, and all that was required was to attach some cut-down Bloodletter heads to the Bloodletter  bodies and mix up some apoxie sculpt:

It took some doing to get the masks right (I'd say the second from the left is, likely, the best), and I learned the hard way that it's better to wait until the mask is dry, then drill in the holes, rather than trying to sculpt the holes in. Witness:

VS.

It's not THAT noticeable, but--up-close--the mask with the drilled holes looks much cleaner.

So, now that I've got the masks figured out and have done some sketches of wicked, half-butcher, half-surgeon weapons, I can really get cracking on some more wracks >:)

Here are the first two who are getting near done: