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Yup, took over a week for the big one, should take a week for this one. It’s a hobby
Tired is enough.
It’s about 1/3 the footprint of the old one but still able to hold 3mm minis and hopefully 6mm.
Possibly I could do 2-3 more eventually and connect them with the bigger keep for an expansive citadel.
Tired is enough.
Maybe paint up another stand with silver spears for comparison. Or highlight the tip of the spear with silver to give it a little more glint.
Persoanlly I think the gold speartips makes it look like bronze.
As I’ve stated on the ‘obsessive things’ thread, I don’t have any obsessions, not at all
Tired is enough.
Had armatures 3D printed for 3mm minis. Wasn’t happy with 3D printed minis, they were missing something. Also it can get very expensive if I wanted to have my minis just right. The current 3mm minis I’m using were hand-sculpted, but it was difficult keeping size and proportion consistent.
The batch I printed had 450 armatures. I thought it’ll be enough to last a year, but I’m not sure anymore.
Pretty happy with the result, for now. Having a uniformly sized and solid armature to work from really sped up the sculpting. I managed to sculpt and paint 60 minis in a week, my previous efforts was a third that. Painting them was a pain though, since I didn’t want them to look uniform but still able to recognize them as belonging to different units.
Originally intended for Knyghte Pyke and Sworde. I was going to do groups of 15, but got lazy and settled for groups of 9, plus 6 characters. Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten how to make 3mm horses, so no mounted troops.
Not much else to say except, these have enough details on them now, I probably wouldn’t be going back to 6mm.
What I really want to make are goats. They might be too small though, and like the horses, I’ve forgotten I how I did animals at this scale.
Tired is enough.
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.
