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Post by stroezie on Aug 9, 2016 6:43:12 GMT
So I have been asked by various people if I will be getting these cast up? As I have never done anything like that I'd like to get some advise on what to look for when sculpting figures as relates to ease of casting. I wouldn't want to go through all the trouble to end up with figures that won't pop out of the mold in one piece. For example do I attach the eyesalks to the beholder or put them on a seperate sprue? Or maybe, there's a cavity underneath the grell's tentacles, do I need to fill that up first? Are there any other thing else I should keep in mind? On the other hand anyone interested in these figures could probably tell me all of that Btw here's some pictures of that beholder for those of you wondering Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by stroezie on Aug 9, 2016 23:17:13 GMT
A very productive day today, sculpted three more monsters, a purple worm, a roper and a rust monster I experimented with using milliput and a mixture of milliput and greenstuff to test out some things I read online. The worm could have been a bit beefier and the rust monster a bit smaller but that would be nitpicking, for first attempts I am quite happy with them.
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Post by stroezie on Aug 10, 2016 19:42:10 GMT
And here they are all assembled, based and ready to be painted as I ponder which monsters I'm going to tackle next.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Aug 10, 2016 22:07:16 GMT
Stirges, just capture mosquitos and use a pin
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 11, 2016 16:09:49 GMT
or like scotty, toothpick with wings.
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Post by stroezie on Aug 11, 2016 16:38:24 GMT
And now with a dash of paint I also knoked together a tiny 1x1x1 cm gelatinous cube using DmScotty's method, got to keep those dungeon corridors clean don't you know ;-))
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Aug 11, 2016 17:13:40 GMT
Howdy, And now with a dash of paint DAMN! Stroezie, You did it again... EXALT BUTTON!!!, Kev!
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Post by margaret on Aug 11, 2016 20:06:31 GMT
Just beautiful! Definitely an exalt
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Post by stroezie on Aug 12, 2016 16:23:12 GMT
Various people have asked if I could do stirges, well this is about as small as I can get them so they’ll have to do for now. The three stirges Moe, Larry and Curly And here they are with some paint on them I also included the rat and spider swarms that came with the Pocket Quest base game which kicked of this whole monster sculpting madness
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Post by kgstanley81 on Aug 12, 2016 19:15:34 GMT
Stirges look good
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Post by stroezie on Aug 29, 2016 7:34:50 GMT
Started painting my Pocket Quest miniatures. They are all from Perfect six miniatures and are great 6mm figures full of character and easy to paint. lets start with the heroes shall we And the first of the orcs My pictures really don't do these figures any justice, the glare blots out a lot of the details but I only have my phone camera at the moment so they'll have to do. I also managed to finish another Grell sculpt, this time it's a Grell mage with a dragon claw staff which came out a little bit larger than I intended but it still looks good imo. That's it for now, more orcs, a troll, rock golem and maybe a few more new sculpts to follow soon (I hope) Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Aug 29, 2016 13:35:55 GMT
Wicked cool
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Post by stroezie on Sept 4, 2016 14:48:23 GMT
My Cephalod starter force for martian empires is finally finished! All of these were sculpted and/or scratch built by me. For the past year I've been using these as dump sculpts meaning that I always have some dollies on my desk in various stages of being finished and then when I have some putty left over from sculpting other things I use it to work a little more on these. This way I don't burn out on making so many of the same sculpts and I also dont waste any green stuff, double win! But enough chit chat, pics or it didn't happen! I'll start with a picture of the whole force And now some close ups The glorious leadership The lowly grunts A bunch of flyboys The heatray artillary The dreaded black smoke projectors ] And a shot with a little bit of every thing for size/scale comparison Ok, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do Now I can get started on the Green Martians and who knows maybe next year I might be able to actually play my first game of 6mm Martian Empires. Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Sept 4, 2016 15:01:30 GMT
Those are awesome, thank you for sharing
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Post by stroezie on Sept 17, 2016 19:14:58 GMT
I have another green to share with you, another classic D&D monster, the Hook Horror. (I'm starting to suspect my 2nd ed.AD&D roots are showing through ) He's proving a bit hard to photograph properly, hopefully once he gets a lick of paint you'll be able to see the details a little better.
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Post by stroezie on Sept 26, 2016 9:43:40 GMT
I did a test piece to see if my idea of using Rapier miniatures Sea People as red martians for my 6mm Martian Empires project would work. Its a very simple conversion, I snipped of their feathered headdress and slapped on a quick and dirty greenstuf helmet and then painted them like red martians, that's it. Personally, I like them! What do you think? Up close you can see how quick and dirty the helmets really are Oh well now that I know it works I may take a little more care with the following ones. I've already ordered some more packs from Rapier's classical and chariot wars ranges which I think will work and I have bases coming in from Warbases so you can expect to see more pictures in the (hopefully) near future.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Sept 26, 2016 18:30:51 GMT
at this size its really hard to tell anything exept when picking them up and looking at them with tiny eyes.
but fdrom the photos, i like them they look right !
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