Eldar Ranger - Hood Modification Part II

Hello!

Well this morn I got up early eager to see the greenstuff dry and it was ready! So I set to work with a wet/dry S85 abrasive sand paper. To start with I was a bit worried this might damage the entire job but I would recommend this to everyone who does any modifications which have even the slightest bit of finger prints. I would say the sanding job was a success and decided to take some more pictures (Also iggnore the cat hair.. it isn't in the greenstuff it just floats around and sticks to everything in our house)

Eldar Ranger - Hood Modification

Greetings!

I have a certain affinity for Rangers in all kinds of fantasy games. My name, Arginal, was born from a ranger type and continued on throughout games.

As such, my Eldar army must contain a strong presence of rangers and pathfinders, but I was disheartened a little when I got my first box of rangers that two of them were un-hooded! What is that all about? 95% of all other eldar are wearing the Eldar style helm but 2 of 5 of these guys have some kind of scalped head with a long pony tail. It had to go! So with a few discussions with my cohort in crime with the miniatures I decided to mod the two odd balls. I thought a nice wide hood would give a nice impression, one of those large hoods that are attached and removed easily.

So here is my first mod ever in Warhammer! Please take note that I DO see some of the finger lines but I have to wait for it to dry completely before I go in with the light sandpaper.



Now if anyone is wondering how I got this done here are the steps I went through. It should be noted that I am NOT an expert or even proficient in this kind of modeling (yet), but I always feel that people sharing their methods helps everyone in the long run.

1) Read this website! The UK Site has a great turorial and demo of how to use GreenStuff Check it out here
2) Used a glad wrap bag as my working space. Added a bit of water as the above site mentions.
3) Cut a bit of the blue and yellow stuff and got to work mixing it. I kept my fingers moist whenever I felt things starting to stick.
4) Flattened the greenstuff on the plastic and smoothed it out best I could.
5) Carefully lined up the left shoulder with the edge of the green stuff.
6) Draped the greenstuff over the head and shaped the hood as I went long with small waves by pushing the greenstuff towards itself.
7) If there was a lot of excess greenstuff I would use my knife (with water on it!) and cut away the offending area(s)
8) Smooth the greenstuff into the model where I found it would normally lay
9) Sit back and admire the handy work!