Article: Sculpting Work in Progress

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Good work on here.

I also started a Dwarf before I went back to Uni so never expect it to be finished, but here is what I have made of him.

The mail is rough as it was pretty much all dry sculpted, his face and beard are all that is finished thus far.

AI

 

[Legacy Account]

That\'s excellent Leo!

I\'ve ordered some gear to do some pewter hand casting. I\'ll see what I can do with your Emperor - the resin copies are cack - too many air bubbles.

 

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Originally posted by Spacemunkie
That\'s excellent Leo!

I\'ve ordered some gear to do some pewter hand casting. I\'ll see what I can do with your Emperor - the resin copies are cack - too many air bubbles.

Cheers that sounds tasty.

Anyone have any suggestions for where to proceed with this dwarf when i get round to it. I was reckoning on armoured feet rather than his current boots but I am not sure where to go with his arms or weapons etc.?

 

[Klute]

Looking good Leo. How about chainmail shirt sleeves and skirt. Armoured boots. BFA (big fekkin axe)
Not very original but as you alrady have the plate on the torso .......

Heres a montage of some stuff on the workbench.

And heres a wip of my Hasslefree pirate comp entry I didnt have time to finish,excuse the photos.

 

[quadrille]

Originally posted by Klute
Look at his knackers

hehe I don\'t think anyone missed them lol Frightening stuff, especially concidering the size of those things compared to a 28mm

Great stuff, you seem to have a lot going on.

 

[Klute]

Yeah and I took some length off the appendage too.
Plenty stuff going on. These are all my own practice stuff that I havnt photo\'d in a while.
These have stopped for commission work now but I get time to do bits here and there.

 

[quadrille]

Ok a small update on the Karl Franz sculpt. The face was a pain to get right, and didn\'t turn out too well on the picture (for some reason the nose looks bigger in the pic than IRL).

The patterns on the armour are made completely without 3ds max and weird chemicals I\'m afraid I can\'t quite match scibor with this technique lol (could someone please translate cyril\'s article on manually created press moulds?!).

Next I\'m gonna finish the breast plate details and sculpt arm armour...

 

[Klute]

Quadrille.....looking fancy those pants.
Cyrils article.
From what I can make out he is basically making push moulds by hand.
Milliput block with the reverse pattern \"scribed\" or \"carved\" in by hand using a point. This is then used as the \"mould\".

I think.

Im going to try it myself sometime.
It sounds like Scibor is fully mechanical with his approach from software design to cnc mould/stamp production.

I think.

Theres been quite a bit fuss about Scibor doing this and personally I see it as another tool to use and nothing wrong with it. Making moulds to redproduce GW heads though I dont agree with but thats a story for another time in another place.

 

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Message original : Klute
Cyril\'s article.

What has been mentionned before is just a draft. The final version should be much more complete and even explain how to do brass etchings at home. Guess who\'s going to translate it and make an article for CMON with Cyril\'s permission ?

Message original : Klute
It sounds like Scibor is fully mechanical with his approach from software design to cnc mould/stamp production.

He must have some serious money or is using a machine at work if he\'s doing that. I looked up 3D printers a while ago, they cost between $24000 and $180000. Or else he\'s having somebody else run the machine, and that costs about $1000 per piece.

 

[Tony Manero]

Originally posted by quadrille
Ok a small update on the Karl Franz sculpt. The face was a pain to get right, and didn\'t turn out too well on the picture (for some reason the nose looks bigger in the pic than IRL).

The patterns on the armour are made completely without 3ds max and weird chemicals I\'m afraid I can\'t quite match scibor with this technique lol (could someone please translate cyril\'s article on manually created press moulds?!).

Next I\'m gonna finish the breast plate details and sculpt arm armour...

nice pattern i can\'t wait to see it finished

 

[Klute]

Thats excellent news Cedric about the article.
I was only guessing from the pics. Cant wait for the real deal.

Scibors stamps could be made very easily using a basic 2d cnc machine. I know plenty people who would do that as a favour and the pattern design should be easy enough.

 

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Message original : Klute
I was only guessing from the pics.

You guessed right .

Message original : Klute
Scibors stamps could be made very easily using a basic 2d cnc machine. I know plenty people who would do that as a favour and the pattern design should be easy enough.

By any chance do you know what file format they would need? I\'m not planning on asking you to see if they can do it for me; it\'s just in case I find something like that in my town .

 

[Klute]

Well its been a while but I think anything from autocad etc would be a good format.
I would just ask the people who do the machining.

 

[El Guardian]

hi, quite a long time since i post, but better later than never

@quadrille: really nice job on that imperial, would love to it finished, specially like the armour nice detailing work

@klute: i can see you have been practising imprsive job on all those minis specially like the fighting girl, top work on her face

now to bussines, i almost finished my latest work for UrbanMammoth anothe Syntha for they UrbanWar range, just need a piece of rumble to be sculpted under the foot. would like to know what you think about him, thanx

 

[darkartminiatures]

This thread is starting to look really cool.

@Klute: You work really fast. You have loads posted here already.

 

[quadrille]

@El guardian: WOW! Looks Awesome! Is that fimo? incredible smoothness, how did you do it?

 

[El Guardian]

thanx quadrille:

yes that is FIMO, i use it to sculpt mechs cos i can get really sharp edges, and smooth surfaces, i sometimes have problems with GS in that respect. i usually sculpt blocks in one stage, for example the torso was sculpted without baking, then the head, arms etc.

getting a smooth surface can sometimes be tricky, specially in large areas, i use a little water to help me there, even though fimo doest need it, ive noticed it helps with the process, not much though but a little bit is really handy, if im still not convinced i just bake it and smooth it the hard way , file and very fine sand paper in hand, some times even a cutter.

with GS the smoothes has no secret just practice im afraid, im still having problems with it sometimes, just make sure my good ol friend sand paper is handy. but a very usefull tip is NOT to use lots of water, use the less water posible so that putty doesnt stick to the tool, my friend ergman told me that one and surely helps a lot

 

[quadrille]

Thanks for the info!

I looked around a little on the net for FIMO and I seem to find the stuff in lots of different colors. But what you use and Allan a.s.o. use is always beige colored. Is it some special type of FIMO (much like the monochromatic SuperSculpey is to Sculpey) with better properties for fine work?

 

[El Guardian]

no is just plain fimo, well in my case is FIMO SOFT (i thnik allan uses standard FIMO), not for a specific reason, is just i couldnt find another around here. i chose this color cos its very \"soft\", natural color to look at, if you understand what i mean, also is not a strong color so you see the details better. i recomend this one (called desert sand i think) or a pale grey (dont know the exact name).

anyway if you want some tips about sculpting with fimo just PM or ask here and i would gladly answer, it can be quite tricky at first is a completly different way of sculpting compared with gs

 

[Tony Manero]

hi el guardian... u have to teach me how to sculpt in this way... i\'ll be ur humble disciple ^^

please contact me if u want to teach me^^