DM8 - Purple Worm from Otherworld Miniatures
This is a resin kit sculpted by Paul Muller and Richard Scott which comes in six pieces; two head halves, three body sections and a metal tail.
Here are the pieces straight from the box. As you can see there are several locating lugs with corresponding shaped holes to help with aligning the parts.
Prepping the model was very quick, the molding is remarkably clean with no air bubbles what so ever and no flash except for some unavoidable mold feed remnants that need pruning before assembly can begin.
Clippers and a sanding block got rid of everything I didn't need very quickly and a small amount of filing finished the job.
Usually I would was any resin parts in washing up liquid and warm water at this point to remove and greasy mold release agents but there didn't seem to be any so I didn't bother.
I stuck the parts by filling the locating holes with 'No Nails', coating the flat joining surfaces with superglue and squishing the two parts together. The whole process was very quick with only the head halves needing some tape and a rubber band to hold them while they dried.
Once the glue was dry I used more No Nails to fill the joins. It's very quick for this sort of work as it can be smoothed out with a wetted finger and surplus can be removed very easily with a cloth.
The two head halves were the only problem pieces. They don't match perfectly because of the nature of resin but a liberal amount of filler sorts them out with very little effort. I left a join line showing on the outside because to remove it would have meant lots of filing and then some sculpting of the surface detail I removed in the process and I couldn't be bothered. I'm sure you're much more conscientious than me so feel free to lavish some attention on this.
Finally I undercoated everything in black. Once the model is the same colour all over it's a lot easier to spot anything that still needs filling or sanding. The head line didn't show too much so I carried on with the painting which is what I wanted to do as soon as I opened the box originally.
It took about two hours to paint. I don't want a purple worm, I want a main attack beast for my Spugs so I painted it in shades of sand with a chestnut wash. As a nod to its origins I painted the mouth purple as well as the barnacles/warts that sprout from its body in various places. It was finished with a gloss varnish for a general slimy look.
The accompanying figure is a 28mm Games Workshop chap that I grabbed from the first drawer I opened, he's only there to show scale.
As you can see, the join line on the head does show up but when it's not being lit from directly above so it can be photographed it's not nearly as noticeable and won't be seen at all once the worm hits the gaming table. I'm only mentioning it because this is a review and I don't want you to miss out on this amazing model because there's a line across its head which is my fault not Otherworld's.
The finished worm is 380mm long and 45mm across at the head.
Go on, you know you want one.
DM8 - Purple Worm £30.00 from Otherworld Miniatures. A superb, impressive model with hundreds of uses in all kinds of games.
