First attempt at sculpting

[Shannow]

Well I certainly look forward to playing a game with any and many of you! I may be in contact with you Brother_Brimstone over the holidays...depending on whether I stay at uni flat or go home to Lancaster for the summer. North West for the win

Rob

EDIT: Btw I have finished crafting his sword which you can see at

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-17at0202.jpg

and also his stats and story can be found at

http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=815.0

though disregard the daggers

[Caralinus]

That sword has turned out really well.

[Brother_Brimstone]

I may be in contact with you Brother_Brimstone over the holidays...depending on whether I stay at uni flat or go home to Lancaster for the summer. North West for the win

Sure, feel free to get in contact. Although I'm not entirely sure where we'd play seeing as I don't actually have a board...

[Shannow]

Following Brother_Brimstones lead I have no wish to inundate the board with my sculpting attempts so will just post all of them here

My new WIP is a psyker holding what will be a very large daemonsword, and he/she will end up with big robed sleeves and a hood (as I am still not willing to properly attempt faces )

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-18at1234.jpg

Will post some more later tonight with the sleeves and sword hopefully. Btw folds are difficult!

Also @ Brother_Brimstone - hopefully I will get round to constructing a rough and ready board as well as a bit of terrain. Painting it may be a problem though but ohwell!

Rob

[Caralinus]

Looking good. It isn't always necessary but plasticard cut to shape, or plasticard rod is useful to act as a frame or base to sculpt over to get good folds.

[Shannow]

I really need to invest in a plethora of bits and bobs, its just hard to justify it with tight budget (though I did buy a LOT of green stuff and modelling wire, but that was dirt cheap )

Thanks for the hint all the same, I am sure it will come in useful before summers end!

I was rooting in my shoe box of magic and found arms from a model I bought last month that turned out to be just to small to use but its arms were fine so I have ended up using those and the rest I made up as I went along! Here is the fruits of my labour:

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at02272.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at0227.jpg

and then I added the beginnings of a head and a shoulder pad to balance it a bit:

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at02322.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at0232.jpg

Does anyone know where I can buy some fine jewellery chain? As I want to have a couple of lines of that going across the chest, which will also pin in place a cloak with a hood on it.

And finally I was wondering if using 50mm bases was generally acceptable? Just because I'd like a fairly flowing cape on the ground and to add a fair bit of decoration around the model.

Rob

[Caralinus]

The only bit of chain I've got came off some naff stuff I relative gave me. Off the top of my head I would say that your best bet for getting some fine chain that's reasonably priced might be your local market.

[DapperAnarchist]

I bought a necklace from Claire's Accessories that was covered in lots of lengths of fine chain. It seems to be the fashion now, or was about 6 months ago. It was cheap, or at least cheaper than any source of plain jewelery chain I could find.

[Shannow]

Thanks for the help guys, I had a browse around the city craft shops and nothing great turned up, but I had a quick look on ebay and found

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2m-Fine-2mm-Gold-Tone-Rolo-Chain-jewellery-FINDINGS-/260536306148?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Crafts_JewelleryMaking_GL&hash=item3ca92c89e4#ht_1708wt_913

which seems ok and very cheap so have invested in that. Will hopefully post an update on model later today

Rob

[Shannow]

Sorry to double post but just a quick update on the actual model: He has a heavy cape on now that also hoods his face I think its turned out ok in the very still/creepy/powerful sense that I was looking for, but the back needs some smoothing work on it and a lot of minor detailing is also required which the chain amongst other things should attend to. Anyway Pictures!

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at2247.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at22472.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at22473.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-19at2248.jpg

I also want to give him a familiar probably and have been looking at wyrd miniatures and really like the look of

http://www.artemisblacks.com/wyrd/images/neverborn/WYR4002%20Baby%20Kade%201.JPG


Anyway sorry again about the double post, thoughts always welcome

Rob

[Brother_Brimstone]

Coming along very nicely; i like him. He has a static pose, but i would say that actually enhances the model as it makes him look very menacing and brooding.

Look forward to seeing him progress.

[Shannow]

Just a very minor update, but one that actually took me a long time to do. Added a blade on his  left forearm which counts as a scythian talon which was made using a brass pins point, also added a belt pouch and a rough buckle lump, and aside from that it was just lots and lots of smoothing of various areas, it doesn't show up particularly well but the cape is miles better and though I find it hard it's certainly getting easier.

Few links anyway:

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at0118.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at01182.jpg&newest=1

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at0119.jpg&newest=1

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at01192.jpg&newest=1


Sorry its not more of an update but I can't really finish him till the fine chain arrives, which will be added to his breastplate, though ebay notifies me that this was posted yesterday so hopefully by thursday will be done and dusted and on to the next one which I'm hoping will be a tad more exciting!

Rob

[RobSkib]

You need to get yourself a proper camera! Webcams do cruel injustices to wonderful models 

[Shannow]

A proper camera would be fantastic this is true, but I just don't have the money to buy one or have one available to borrow sadly damn poor life of a student!

Having said that I will again apologise for the quality of the pictures I put up, at some point I will hopefully be able to give a few decent pictures of each model but not looking likely in the near future.

Finally finished model, just a bit of extra chain to his chest, bit of bling-bling the link I gave earlier for the ebay item I bought for the chain was extremely good value and their store seems to be worth a look for odds and sods. It was 1.79 inc postage and I got 2m of fine chain:

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at17112.jpg

Anyway here are a couple of pictures of the model:

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at1719.jpg

http://s916.photobucket.com/albums/ad4/jerusalem-man/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-06-22at1725.jpg


So again apologies for the picture quality! I have started my third sculpt today, though not at a stage worth taking pictures of and he is planned to be an Ex-commissar wearing a top hat, with a shock-cane and a stupidly large revolver

Rob

[Caralinus]

That cahin turned out looking good and this second model really does look the business.