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Haven’t doing anything in months but I’ve been looking at my history of work and would like to share my almost complete sculpting history. Most of it had only started once I joined this forum.
I can’t remember the year of the first sculpt but it was when I first got into WH40K (3rd ed at the time, and Epic 40k was still available), and for some reason I wanted to sculpt a fantasy anime catgirl shooting an arrow. Never did finish the sculpt. she had lost an ear and her tail through the decades.
After that failure I got into Demonworld and 15mm wasn’t as intimidating as my first ambitious attempt.
Following that was the long dark anime years. I could date the third sculpt to around 2010.
The anime Tau can be dated if you can find the thread on another forum where someone started working on a mini based on this art work. I got caught in the tauboi stampeed.
To the left: My first ever 6mm sculpts, and they were very tall.
To the right: Some may remember these.
These 6mm were the first sculpts I was happy with. After finished the ones on the left I stopped for a few years before doing the ones on the right. These convinced me, I could sculpt reasonable minis and the group to the left weren’t fluke. There’s at least a 5 year gap between the two groups.
Got pretty confident with 6mm and began playing with multi scales of the same characters. The 15mm were only concepts for the 6mm version though.
Decided to try my hands at sculpting animals, in 3mm and 6mm
With the coming release of a game called Amthem (which turned out to be a flop). I decided to play Anthem in 3mm and sculpted these.
Turned out it wasn’t all that fun in 3mm either.
Edit: Actually forgot to mention these guys. The infamous and woefully ineffective STD team.
You remember this guy, the pondering dinosaur.And the Tau scavenger girl.
Returned to my fondeness for Taus. I like that they have hooves for feet, I thought it was cool at the time and still think it’s refreshing from aliens wearing shoes. Comparing her to my first mini was pretty scarry.Then there was this little experiement for skirmish 6mm. Crashed and burned hard, because they were still too big compared to the vehicles.
THE END
Except for these guys. I went back to my 3mm roots and cartoony style of the first game I posted here.
Very sorry if this eats up bandwidth.
Tired is enough.
Brown or gray? I’ve been trying to move to brown stones so it can double for arid terrain but these look too dark.
Tired is enough.
Repainted it with a lighter brown. Also resurfaced an old board, I don’t have enough terrain to fill it.
Tired is enough.
Been playing around with photoshop, following this tutorial for space map.
Currently color coded
White = urban
Green = forest/jungle/fertile terrain
Yellow = arid terrain
Biri 62Q looks like one hell of a place not to be in. Just out side the GREEN ZONE (fertile zone), and contested by BLUE and RED force.
Tired is enough.
Replanting jungle trees. I’ve really bitten more than I could chew this time. These are about done, all that’s left is painting, but these aren’t even half of them.
Thanks to Strozie for introducing me to plumbers putty, I saved a week with the (brown) canopy.
Tired is enough.
Repainted the rawks with khaki. I think it’s too bright for tropical climate but fit well with sandy terrain. 3mm person for scale.
Tired is enough.
Thanks guys.
@Strozie
For the trees I made one sculp of the leaves, and made a press mould to copy the rest.
For ground cover, it’s just sculpting each leaves on in 2-3 layers. Each layer has 3-4 leaves.
For 15mm you might want to sculp the foliage on a rod/stick to give it some height. Cover the rod/stick with a layer of putty for the leaves to stick to, sculp the top layer and add lower layers with some gaps, it woldn’t look as dense but it wouldn’t be as tedius.Also helps if the base has some hight to it like a hill, but probably different in 15mm.
Woe is me
I was working on the 3rd evolution of Slow Burn, where minuatures show stance. 4-5 poses per weapon type, and 3 poses for unarmed. So far there are 4 weapons, pistol, SMG, carbine, LMG. I have to do 15 miniatures for each character (not doing them with LMG), for 4 characters. Then I had the great idea of also doing variants with body army, so 120 miniaturs just for the 4 characters. Sometimes I forget why I dropped some projects until I pick it up again.Tired is enough.
Tiny Space Combat
The largest ships would be around 12mm long with most being around 6mm. I’ve been wanting to us Brigade and GZG fighters as spaceships for a long time.
Tired is enough.
Tiny little spaceships arrived.
Left to right
Planets/moons, stations, civilian ships.
Picket ships, light cruisers, heavy cruisers, support ships.
Tired is enough.
@ DSG
The ships were 3d printed. I did started sculpting 10 of them but gave up as soon as I put putty to base.@Thaddeus
You can have the STl file if you like. They might not look good scaled up, since these are at my usual too tiny for normal people scale.Gotta send me your email address somehow.
Here’s a render of the ships.
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