This guy is my favorite. My John Woo Akimbo Hand-Flamer Cadian Slaaneshi Mutant!

The Stubber would need to be resting on something. I considered adding a bipod to the barrel, or maybe making more sandbags but finally decided that a Space Marine casualty would make fine battlefield cover.

Blue-tac is great for mocking things up.

The feet on the Space Marine would need to be changed, they're too "stand-uppy" to make a convincing casualty.

I started by poking a sharp hobby knife up the greave, parallel to the leg. I repeated poked it up, making a row of holes all the way around the ankle.

Once I had gone around each ankle a couple of times, I was able to just twist the feet right off the leg.

Much better.

Pinning the shoulder made positioning the arm much easier. I had to cut the wrist to give it a realistic twist. Pinning that helped too.

I couldn't get the Bolter to look right. I think the Auspex looks better anyways.

The other arm went on easily, though I had to shave the hidden surface of the shoulder pad to make it all fit.

Added a Bolt Pistol, too.

Reverse angle.

I started with the Heavy Stubber Barrel. Note that I (accidentally) glued it on horizontally, instead of with a slight upward firing angle. This would cause problems later on in the process.

Then the ammo bin. I positioned the belt feed to cover up some shabby filing work where I removed one of the Goliath's hands for the Heavy Stubber.

Then I glued on the Cadian firing arms. Actually, Zina had to help me out by accellerating the CA glue while I held the arms in place. I need a third hand.

Torso next. Now, you can see the problem that came from the incorrect barrel angle. The Traitor's chest and elbows are way too far off of the ground. Serious abs on that Traitor...

A better view of the oops.

Looked okay from the front though, and I really didn't want to detach the barrel from the Marine casualty; if I screwed it up I'd have to start all over.

Instead, I added a second casualty. I had to shave down the second torso to fit it in the space available under the Traitor. I also had to cut the arm up to make it fit. I planned on covering up the really obvious chops with basing later on.

On one side, the Traitor rests on the second casualty's torso and on the other his arm/bolter.

I clipped off legs and one and, and scored them up so they look like the Marine got shot up pretty badly. I also added the entrails off of the Zombie sprue though it is hard to see in this pic.

After basing, looks good.

Yup, I'm pleased.

Greenstuff is too pricey and precious for this kind of thing. I picked up a box of Sculpy at Fred Meyer a few months ago, and have been looking for a project to try it out on. Sculpy is a modelling clay that you bake in your oven to cure. It is a bit softer than plasticine or Play-Doh, and is pretty easy to work with.

First, I made a ball about the size of a gumball.

Then I flattened the ball out and squared off the corners a little bit. I tried not to make it too Chicklet-like, I wanted it to look like a bag of sand not a stone.

I built a bunch of the little buggers, then stacked them around the Heavy Bolter. Once I
was satisfied with their position, I gently pushed their edges down trying to simulate the sag of a sandbag.

Then, I took my hobby knife and score shallow "seams" around the edges of the bags.

Here's a view from the other side.

I carefully ran my hobby knife blade under the bottom row of sandbags to separate them from the base. Once that was done, I transferred them to some aluminum foil and baked them as the Sculpy box instructed. Very fast and easy, yielding great result. I think my Obstacles will use Sculpy sandbags, at least some will.

After baking, I noticed I had left some fingerprints in the Sculpy. Fortunately, Sculpy sands down just fine, so a few touchups with a very fine grit sandpaper cleaned things up nicely.