When
work on a new army begins, the Studio scenery builder, Mark Jones,
works alongside the Game Developers and Miniatures Designers to
create some terrain pieces for the Warhammer Armies book. These
will be an essential part of creating the right atmosphere for the
book. In the case of the Beasts of Chaos, building a herdstone was
inevitable, but by creating more of the features of the forests
in which the Beastmen live, we could expand on their background.
Early experiments with fortifications shaped like a Chaos star didn’t
fit the feral aspects of the Beastmen very well. The construction
looked too complicated and involved for them. Something more in
keeping with their nature had to be found.
The answer came from a sketch by Nuala Kennedy in early stages
of work on the army. The sketch shows a corrupted tree, chained
to pillars of rock, writhing with life and surrounded by the skeletons
of its victims. This tied in with some of the background ideas for
the Beastmen being discussed at the time. Beastmen were said to
have destroyed Elven waystones, designed to contain the corruption
coming from large pieces of buried warpstone. With the waystones
gone, they would build their herdstones or plant trees over the
warpstone. This fitted the sinister, fairy tale quality of the Beastmen
perfectly. Taking this as his inspiration, Mark set about constructing
such a tree for the Studio army.
After looking at a variety of different methods to build the tree,
Mark settled on making it from twisted wire. Wire is a good material
to use in producing highly detailed models, and also has the ability
to be bent and twisted into a suitable shape. The basic idea behind
a wire tree is to twist a number of wire strands together, allowing
one end to open into roots while the other end is gradually divided
and twisted to form branches. The whole construction can then be
glued to a base and bent into suitably sinister forms. To achieve
this, Mark decided to build not one but three trees and wire them
together to form his monster tree. He built it in this way to make
the early stages of construction more manageable, as most of the
wire would be bent by hand. See
how he did it right here...
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