"Snaky" - Malifaux Abomination

A creation of steam and sinew

that is at once living and dead,

Abominations can be created by

almost any bits of metal and

machinery and flesh that a skilled

necromancer may have lying around.

Wyrd

Welcome to another abomination on The Art of Caesura!

This week's model completes our quartet of horror, it's the final abomination of Leveticus. 

Another tiny, highly detailed mini from Wyrd. As I've said before, they really knock it out of the ballpark with some of their miniatures. I must say, I found this abomination especially horrifying (and that's coming off the back of a guy with his rib-cage splayed open!) I think it's the way that when you look at it carefully, it's actually a snake-shaped robot (with a glowing red lens in it's head) wearing the remains of a human head with jawbones still attached! Delightful.

I pulled in some colours from the previous abominations to tie them together: I painted the tips of all of their "claws" (the end of Headly's legs and "eye claws", the tips of Hugster's "ribs" and now the ends of Snaky's "claws") brass and kept the rest of their metal oily steel tones.

 With the wires on Snaky, I was inspired by old Space Ork and Inquisitor miniatures - they were forever painting them in glaring yellow and black "hazard" colours. After I completed these wires, I saw that they grabbed the attention a little too much, so tried to tone them down (and grubby them up) a bit with brown ink.

 Once again, the Secret Weapon bases really work wonderfully for these guys. I spent a lot of time picking which specific base to use for each miniature in an attempt to give them some interaction with their setting (recall Sawhawk using one of his chainsaw arms to help himself up the curb, and here Snaky's tail is dangling over the corner). 

And here's couple group shots of the whole happy family!

Thanks again for another week, joining me here on The Art of Caesura!


Reading: Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert


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