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@DSG
Not anytime soon though. I’m affraid making a business out of a hobby will take the fun out of it.With and without haori, shows what you can see in grey/gray and green.
@DSG Not anytime soon though. I’m affraid making a business out of a hobby will take the fun out of it. With and without haori, shows what you can see in grey/gray and green.
Yes, but think of how much of that lost fun will be shared among so many!
Think of the (grown up) children! Why doesn’t anyone ever think of the (grown up) children?
Dan
Loads of WIPs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9593487@N07/albums/with/72157710630529376Thanks all.
@Cacique
I checked out the link in your signature, and you got a lot of nice projects there. I like your terrain, the removable water feature. The giftcard shuttle gave me a few ideas. I’ve also thought about making a stonewall texture roller like you did but never went ahead and did it, it was nice to see how well it works. Finally, I really like that boat in post apoc pirates.And now, taking a differnt turn.
Reaper miniature had this terrain piece, but its out of stock. Would have been great if I could get hold of one.
Some pics of it on these blogs. Reaper website only has one lower-res image of it.
Here, here, and hereI want one but thre isn’t one to be had. So I dug out my tub of FIMO and started working.
1. Made a base/armature out of card. I needed this because FIMO is a pain on its own. Put soe force on it and the whole thing warp, so it really need somekind of structure to anchor on. I covered it with greenstuff because Youtube tutorials that says I should, because FIMO doesn’t stick to things well. Considering all these limitations FIMO is really a hassel to work with, but I need it so I could work on the model for days instead of hours with greenstuff.
2. Put on the base layer of FIMO over the greenstuff. This was pretty thin and the FIMO mix I used was really sticky so I ended up applying it as is on the inside of the structure without a greenstuff base.
3. Put on the finaly working layer. Fixed the overall shape and allignment. One side of the wall slid out of position making life that little bit harder.
Bottom roll. Added details. I copied the patterns and cracks as best I could but ignored some of the archs becasue I wasn’t into that kind of stuff. I should have made card internal structure to the arch on the side as well but I forgot. It was quite difficult to work with arping in every direction.
I consider phase 1 done. Tomorrow, I’ll do the interior details and the upper floor. the ground floor I’d do last after its been baked. I’m planning to do the ground floor with greenstuff because I need to add a magnet to it and don’t think the magnet would survive the baking. The other pieces are straight forward compared to the main structure and should be pretty quick after this one is done.
Hindsight. My plan was to do the interior first so I can hold on to the outside all I want but I was too eager and went ahead and finished everything on the outside. So, I’m leaving it over night for the thing to sit and maybe stiffens a little before doing the inside.
Obviously this is scaled for 6mm and 3mm.
Color is kind of boring, Looks liek aquarium castle. I need to add something like vines and brushes.
Finally, 3mm horse armatures.
Mounted versions of my foot characters, and some slightly dynamic horses.
Something much bigger then usual, and not really sculpting but for RPG.
Mantics goblins, a mix of old and new plastic. I only realized today that the new plastic had 5 fingered hands while the old ones has 4 fingers. I’ll have to change the other 3 to 4 fingered hands as well.
@ian
I did sell some 6mm Scifi goblins to DSG, but I don’t think they were value for money. Need to get into resin casting for these to be cheap enough to sell. I also prefer strange tiny scales (currently 2mm and 4mm) rather than the more mainstream ones making these too big or too small to fit with other range.Recently I’ve been pursuing my ultimate dream, 1mm miniatures. Humans and orcs for Warmaster, but I haven’t gethered enough guts to paint it yet.
Sculpting diary
A little inspiration from mike’s 10mm fantasy thread. Decided to do 15mm rather than 28mm because I like to pretend I might use this in a game and I’m more likely to play 15mm games than 28mm. 28mm is still only the size of my thumb.
Day1
Carved out an armature. A little thicker than I’d like but at 15mm it’s going to be chunkier than the illustration. The knees in the illustration are a little low so I’ll change that a little, but looking back my sketch has the legs a little short. I’ll fix that by taking the shoulders down maybe 1mm-1.5mm. I can always extend the lower legs if the minis miraculously become underscale.
Since I’m using GW sprue to sculp this, doe this mean the miniature is partially official GW miniature?
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Since I’m using GW sprue to sculp this, doe this mean the miniature is partially official GW miniature?Yes – expect either a C&D or bill in the post
Nice start – very impressed by the reuse of a sprue.
@Mike
That’s the sprue carved into leg and torso with another piece glued on for the other leg. It’s for strength while sculpting.The mini has got to at least be tornament legal, with at least 50% GW parts? Then again, its 15mm.
Day 2 Leg Day
Don’t know about other people but I always start with the legs. Its much easier to keep the miniature in scale that way. Whenever I work on torso or head first they either come out too big or too small and the mini suffers for it. Even now the mini looks like it’ll be 1mm-2mm taller than planned, I made the pants too low like the illustration even though I had planned not to -_-‘
Coincidentally, I ran out of Green Stuff yesterday so its a good time to move to Procreate gray. Blends pretty well with the sprue and much easier to see details. Still not as comfortable with it as I was with Green Stuff.
I was thinking of doing 10mm along with this, but realized 15mm is pretty small. 10mm is probably more like 6mm and needs a lot of abstraction.
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