A design for a centipede themed Great Unclean One from Warhammer!
I’ve been watching a bunch of miniature making and have been considering getting into the hobby myself as well. This idea came to me while watching one being painted.
Ever since I played Sekiro, I’ve liked the Centipede aesthetic, and I thought it could be interesting to incorporate them into a Nurgle blight. My thinking was that they can control corpses and feed on the other pestilences such as rats, crows, and roaches, as well as pesky Space Marines that engage Nurgle’s forces.
The weapon is modeled after a Urumi, a weapon from India that sports a highly flexible metal blade. It is wielded quite similarly to a whip. Some models had dozens of blades, but this one just has one, barbed blade meant to look like, you guessed it, a centipede. Someone on discord said it looked like a tapeworm, which is also an option!
I plan to complete this with linework and a color palllete consisting of a yellowish pink skin tone, with some purples and greens for bloating and rot, and a red and brown coloration for the centipedes! Some other fun colors for the boils and stuff.
I also plan to add some bug-inspired nurglings with antennae and pincer.
this is absolutely disgusting- please share when you’ve finished it :) and i really like the thought you’ve put into all of it, with what kind of weapon they’re holding and how they can interact with other pestilence and stuff!
about how long do you think it takes you to make a sketch like this?
A sketch only takes maybe 30 min to an hour, though different iterations and modifications after the fact can take longer for sure. I reposed this guy and redid the face several times, and have done some several times since this point.
Here is the completed version by the way!
https://beehaw.org/post/943756