Pile of corpses

Here is one of the most disgusting terrains I’ve probably ever had to make, but it’s for the introduction scene of the scenario in Briarstone.

The players have to climb a pile of corpses to be able to get out of the basement, and I wanted to make that element. So I gathered a bunch of old miniature that I don’t use and tried to make a pile out of them.

So I started digging through my pile of old useless miniature. It’s a mix of stuff I bought already painted at flea markets (which I don’t really like since I prefer painting my own), things I painted myself ages ago, plastic miniature like Heroclix with pretty rough sculpting, and random little plastic toys that might be the right scale but with ugly sculpts. I was looking to see if I could find enough pieces large enough to use and roughly the right scale.

And there you have it, that’s what I managed to find. It’s not a huge pile but I figured it would probably be enough for what I wanted to do.

To save on miniature, I started making the majority of the pile with just a ball of aluminum foil and glued the miniature on top. To get them to bend enough so they’d conform to the shape and not be too rigid, I used a hair dryer to heat the plastic. This let me twist the miniature slightly before gluing them in place.

I cut off protruding arms and legs to keep the idea of a big shapeless mass of corpses, and then I glued those cut off pieces back in other places.

I added glue on the areas where there were no bodies and sprinkled sand and slightly larger pebbles. I added plenty of glue and water mixture on top to keep it all in place, and it helps show the impression of having a rockfall with bodies emerging from it.

I started with the flesh parts using Necrotic Flesh. For everything else, I’ll be using speedpaints.