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Dirty Plague Rats

August 21, 2023

Tutoring 6

Skill 6

Idea 6

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The Cult of Yurei, being all about the death and decay, can take various rats as part of their force. As you might expect, these aren’t the most powerful or formidable of characters but they do provide some chaff to block parts of the board and have your opponent activate their models before your key characters activate. One of the rat units available are plague rats of which you can field three. While not particularly powerful, if they do successfully hit in attack, they get to dish out poison markers which inflict additional damage at the end of the turn.

In this case, I searched Thingiverse (not to be mistaken for Redvers) for suitable models of which there were a few. Using Microsofts 3D builder, I was able to manipulate the files to get the right size and then attached them to 3D bases for the game. These then went off to the 3D printer.

Painting wise, I took a quick approach to these. A base of dark brown was then given a dark tone wash. I’ve then dry brushed up the highlights through successively lighter browns. Teeth/claws were off white with a yellow wash. The tail was a skin tone given a brown wash. For the boils and lesions, I’ve used a purple glaze applied several times followed by a red glaze over the highest points.

The basing is just Mig Ammo dry earth acrylic mud with a wash applied and then a light flocking of dead grass. This will be my Cult of Yurei basing across all of my models to try to tie them together.