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Making a Grabber-Slasher using a Squig, some claws, and some two-part epoxy.

Sketch
John Blanche's original idea

The previous post went into the background for the Grabber-Slasher. The original Grabber-Slasher miniature is rare. How hard can it be to make your own weird/goofy hand monster?

The plan:

I am totally lacking in sculpting skills so need to leverage the work of others insofar as possible. The lore says this is a shape-shifting assassin which provides some creative licence when it comes to morphology. I never intended to be 100% faithful to the original.

A Squig

Pewter miniature
The donor model

I used a Warhammer fantasy Squig as the base of the project. It is from a Night Goblin Squig Herder set ↗ from the year 2000. I picked it up second hand for a couple of quid.

Some Claws

Illustration
Art from Advanced Space Crusade

The claws are from Checkpoint Miniatures ↗ . These are part number B04 ↗ sculpted by Whiff Waff.

Some Green Stuff

Before mixing the epoxy I experimented using Blu Tack ↗ . This helped inform positioning of the claws and where I would need to clip some with pliers.

Assembled miniature
My Grabber-Slasher

The slasher part is the tip of a wooden toothpick.

Some Paint

I was never a good painter and a multi-decade hiatus and age have not improved my skills. I'm also not leaning on new paint technologies or painting techniques, sticking to what I know, or at least half-remember. As with the sculpting, ambition exceeds

My Tyranid Warriors are a myriad of colours, influenced by the age-related schemes on the Advanced Space Crusade box.

This miniature was created for a John Blanche tribute thing on the Oldhammer forum ↗ . John liked red and limited palettes.

I thought it would be cool if the miniature looked like a bag of claws and viscera. The creature does assemble itself as it rips through its victims.

Painted miniature
Good enough for the tabletop