Chrome's WIP

**Chrome** · 11-16-2010, 03:18 PM

Hey guys! There has been some time since I updated anything here and I've been thinking, perhaps it is easier to do like so many others around here and just start a WIP that collects everything I am or am not working on at the moment.
I'm not going to give any promises but I'm gonna try to update this thread with at least something every week, just to show that I'm alive. There are quite a few projects going on that I haven't shared yet but I'll get to those eventually, first, here's a bit of a backtrack for those who haven't seen my work or those who just want to be reminded of how awfully slow things can be sometimes.

Big D's Dread
Mk IV Ironclad Dreadnought
TS Armour
Magician
The Wolf Lord

And last and certainly oldest but far from least:
The Stormblade

So, with that out of the way I'll start organising and taking pics of all the other projects plus whatever progress I've made with these as well.

I'll be Bach!

**Chrome** · 11-18-2010, 03:02 PM

Ok, not anything on other projects atm, We(as in the local gaming community) decided to have a tournament at the end of next week and I decided to try and finish something before that. Therefore I went ahead and sculpted a head on my lord's wolfie.

I just recently started using fimo and I must say I love it! It provides a completely different kind of freedom that is quite refreshing. Thanks goes to skels for making me try out Fimo!

Here's the wolfie, feel free to bash it! There's something odd with it that I can't quite put my finger to...

**cassar** · 11-18-2010, 03:21 PM

nice one chrome me old china glad to see you post again good the way you blended the two types of fur must be a bit of a fiddle that

**Paandrik** · 11-18-2010, 05:06 PM

It looks more like a warthog, and I believe its because of the overall shape.
The lover jaw is longer than the upper jaw, and I would like to see some less defining of the hairs in the face and more hair on the chin, in a up side down 7 shape (best shape description ever) to make it look more wolfie. also it should be flatter on the head, the long hairs don't start until after the ears, also bigger ears.
And make it loose some weight by cutting of some of the throat fur, it is just too much.

just Defining it a bit and it will be a masterpiece.

**Chrome** · 11-18-2010, 05:40 PM

Heck, just removing the throat hair did a LOT to it. Thanks for that advice! Now I'll go cure it and see what to do next.

**Torn blue sky** · 11-18-2010, 06:06 PM

I was gonna say that too, it looked a lot more like some kind of dire boar. WooOOooo evil bacon.
Looking brilliant though, look forward to more!

**Chrome** · 11-18-2010, 06:57 PM

Look at that! Another update before bedtime! I'm on a ROLL!

Well, I've followed some of Paandriks advice, I've removed some of the fur on the throat, made it a lot more wolf looking and tomorrow I'm going to fiddle around with the forehead and the ears. Sadly I can't do much about the definition of the hairs on the face since that would mean re-sculpting it completely and I'm not sure I want to do that...
I gave it a saddle and some upper(err... frontal?) body armour, gonna add more details to it as I go along. If anyone wonders about the thingie in front of his armour on the neck he used to have a helmet as well but I removed it when I saw Paandriks post about the changes.

**Tee999** · 11-18-2010, 08:14 PM

bash what? thats some great work. glad to see your posting again.

**Torn blue sky** · 11-18-2010, 10:18 PM

Some stylized shoulder armour, like Pauldrons would look badass!

**SkelettetS** · 11-19-2010, 01:30 AM

looking nice chrome, fimo for sure is easier to get someting decent from instead of using that pesky greenstuff! what i miss is the wolfie making some kind of grimace to add character, right now he seems a bit... well... taken from the biological class book "and this is a wolf specimen" if you get my point.

**cassar** · 11-19-2010, 09:13 AM

if you want to trim some of the extra weight off the shoulders (down to personal preference) well the shoulder armour should cover any carving you do i recon you coud shave off up to 5mm without causing to much disruption. personally it looks ok to me after all sm's are drug enhanced genetically modified killing machines so why not their dogs of war.

**Chrome** · 11-19-2010, 09:23 AM

Well, I'm pretty happy with the shoulders, it gives it a bit of that unnatural feel to it, (Is it really evolved wolves or tolerated warp spawn? Really...) But the head is my main concern, that and the tail is what really sells it as a wolf or not. Paandriks advice helped a lot towards that goal and I'm very thankful for that.

Now I'm going to modify that, the saddle and then consider considering it done unless TBS wants to elaborate on the 'stylized' idea...

Skels, I thought I posted something in response to your post this morning but I must have been drunk or otherwise incapacitated because apparently it never got posted. He's got a pretty heavy snarl going but that's basically it at the moment, if you've got some good advice on how to give it some character without making it cartoony I'm all ears...

**cassar** · 11-19-2010, 10:01 AM

the golden compass war bear armour with the engraving would maybe help.

**Chrome** · 11-19-2010, 01:42 PM

Ok, been working a bit on the head roughly following Paandriks advice, what do you guys think?

Looking at the pics now I just might have given him puppy ears...

**cassar** · 11-19-2010, 02:22 PM

awe he's so cute coochey coochey coo. but on a serious note if you add a little fur/mass to the front base/corner of each ear and raise the tips up a little that might give him the malevolent look your after the improvement on the eyes was a good move too, less rounded. maybe even a little more brow would increase his snarlability.

**Torn blue sky** · 11-19-2010, 03:04 PM

And ridges at the top of his muzzle. You know how when a dog is growling aggressively it's snout kind of wrinkles back a bit. The fur on the sides of his head is well caught. Agree with Cassar about it's ears too, right now it looks a bit puppy-ish and cowering. Aggressive dogs ears tend to go up and slightly back.
About the shoulder armour, I was thinking along these lines.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/264804

Maybe with pauldrons more curved for the shoulders.

**Chrome** · 11-19-2010, 03:19 PM

Well, started talking to my sis about it, she's a bit of a guru when it comes to canines, she started talking about moods. and that got me thinking, I had a reference for tails somewhere that I snatched off a site long ago and after some searching I found what nagged my mind, the facial reference!

What I want to depict is a strong, angry wolf afraid of nothing. Big, hulking and couldn't care less if he tore your throat out or not but would prefer to... Violently.
According to both my sis and that pic, ears folded backwards are a sign of insecurity, fear even, and that will not do. I checked the reference and started sculpting the ears pointing directly forward. Snarling, getting ready for combat... Confident.
Kinda like what you guys are saying now.

So that's what I'm working on atm, have to let the fimo rest a bit though, it is getting a bit too soft to work with from all the fiddling, gonna take a pic of it later.

I was thinking about adding more brow as well, and maybe even more forehead, but I'm not sure.
I did sculpt very defined curling lips but looking at it now I believe it got lost in the fur, I'll go back and define it some more.

But first, a huge cup of cocoa, my throat is killing me.