The Dark Beneath The World (pt2)

so ive taken my first few steps. in creating the immense chaos troll that i wrote about in part 1.

firstly absolutely butchering a GW river troll that i had already glued up ready to be painted..but decided it would be best suited for this project.
pinned in a 3rd arm and roughly worked out what else i was going to be doing so here is the first few steps ive taken thus far.

as you can see. i have my arms in place.
also made a start on the 'gnarly skin as you can see on the forearms and over his right shoulder. this will continue over his back and shoulders
the chains are roughly in place. but not secured over the left shoulder as its still waiting for the gnarly rock like skin. ive decided that this troll was once a stone troll. it seems fitting for a dungeon dweller after all.
the chain will also be in place to hold the hammered warpstone into his flesh. and im hoping to get some nicely grotesque looks around these. possible with warpstone coursing between the rocklike skin like veins.

so my next steps will be to continue covering that skin up and then adding the details to the pincer to make it look like it was formed from chaos magics.

i may possibly add a few rough uneven spikes down his spine, sprouting through the rock like hide.

ive filed down some areas in readiness to add the boils and sores described. and once all of the skin is complete i will then be able to add further details like the baby head and so on.

now you will notice there is no head...because im going to sculpt this from scratch using a mish mash of ideas that have skipped by me over the last few days. these consist of a weird mash up of familar designs. but ultimately its all in aid of capturing that tortured beast look. pain wracked with agony. hate etc etc ill reveal more later once i get a better form of how it is going to pan out.
but for now heres a quick mock up of where i will be going next.