[Leech]

This is the base of my Barbed Hierodule in the painting section. It took loads of work and because I had so many pictures of it I decided to put it up here. I made it by cutting holes into the Hierodule's base so there were huge irregular gaps in it. I then filled in the bottoms of these gaps with milliput to create the areas where the swamp would go. I put the base on a plastic bag to dry which I peeled off when the milliput was dry, I didn't want it to bond with my table.

I put lots of alien, bug parts in there. I also made a few swamp-bugs to go in there. I used water effects to slowly, so slowly fill up the swamp. I mixed green ink into the water effects from time to time to give it a greenish tint. Ink is better than paint because paint will make the wqater effects go cloudy. The water effects took ages, well over a month.

The various critters were put in once the swamp was half full of water efffects. This helps to give the idea that they are swimming in it. I also put some old Skaven tails on the bottom of the swamp to look like things growing down there. Comments, questions, criticism welcome.