automaton
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hello everyone!
I finally made it back from my trip around the world hehe, wow it was so amazing, all the incredible sights and meeting many of the great painters at last! It was a dream, and now it\'s all a blur haha. I will put together a big report of the trip with lots of photos soon, I\'ll probably post it as a report on my site.
So, now to the minis! I decided the split them up into different threads, just to try to make it a little better for those with slower connections...to many photos as it is, and if I had them all on the one page I think some people\'s computer may blow up (I know my own comp. would never recover haha). I have already posted these photos on a couple of forums around the place, but I thought I might as well post them here on CMON too; sorry if some of you are already sick of seeing them!
First up we have the nurgle marine mutant, the first mini I made of the 4 I made for my trip, and my entry for 40k single mini at UK GD this year. I did most of this one back in June I think - it seems like a long time ago now!
The inspiration came mainly from a piece of artwork in the chaos marine codex (the old codex now I guess!). If you want to check it out, it\'s on page 63, the \'rise of daemon prince periclitor\' or something like that hehe...it\'s a black and white artwork, and it should be pretty obvious which figure I was looking at
To make the mini, I used a plastic space marine torso and legs to start, then cut the legs at all the joints and re-arranged them in the position I wanted using pins etc.. Then I sculpted the nurgle armour over the top, using the plastic marine as the basic structure. I wanted the nurgle marine to be a lot bulkier and more heavy-looking than normal marines, so it helped to have the plastic one inside, because it meant that it automatically became more chunky. The armour is sculpted with a mix of greenstuff and milliput yellow-grey - the rest is plain greenstuff.
For the painting, a lot of inspiration came from Cyril\'s nurgle marine from the Ravage Mix Open last year - different shades of green and so on. I wanted to try something more complex and ambitious with the weathering, making the damage more extensive. It was a bit of an experiment - there was a lot of frustration and heartache involved haha, and I wasn\'t happy with the finished result, but hopefully it looks ok!
I will write a more extensive explanation of the painting methods, colours etc. on my website soon.
ANyway, there you go! I really cannot believe that it won gold, it is an absolute dream come true. You should have seen how nervous I was all day at GD haha, oh my...and then how excited I was when I realised I had won something hahaha, it was so amazing!!!
So of course, any questions or criticisms or discussion or whatever are welcome, as always - we\'re all friends
here\'s the CMON link haha, sorry I had to do it
http://www.coolminiornot.com/172869
Well - I hope you enjoy it! I had problems getting good photos, so in the end I had to be satisfied with these: not the best, but ok I hope.
I finally made it back from my trip around the world hehe, wow it was so amazing, all the incredible sights and meeting many of the great painters at last! It was a dream, and now it\'s all a blur haha. I will put together a big report of the trip with lots of photos soon, I\'ll probably post it as a report on my site.
So, now to the minis! I decided the split them up into different threads, just to try to make it a little better for those with slower connections...to many photos as it is, and if I had them all on the one page I think some people\'s computer may blow up (I know my own comp. would never recover haha). I have already posted these photos on a couple of forums around the place, but I thought I might as well post them here on CMON too; sorry if some of you are already sick of seeing them!
First up we have the nurgle marine mutant, the first mini I made of the 4 I made for my trip, and my entry for 40k single mini at UK GD this year. I did most of this one back in June I think - it seems like a long time ago now!
The inspiration came mainly from a piece of artwork in the chaos marine codex (the old codex now I guess!). If you want to check it out, it\'s on page 63, the \'rise of daemon prince periclitor\' or something like that hehe...it\'s a black and white artwork, and it should be pretty obvious which figure I was looking at
To make the mini, I used a plastic space marine torso and legs to start, then cut the legs at all the joints and re-arranged them in the position I wanted using pins etc.. Then I sculpted the nurgle armour over the top, using the plastic marine as the basic structure. I wanted the nurgle marine to be a lot bulkier and more heavy-looking than normal marines, so it helped to have the plastic one inside, because it meant that it automatically became more chunky. The armour is sculpted with a mix of greenstuff and milliput yellow-grey - the rest is plain greenstuff.
For the painting, a lot of inspiration came from Cyril\'s nurgle marine from the Ravage Mix Open last year - different shades of green and so on. I wanted to try something more complex and ambitious with the weathering, making the damage more extensive. It was a bit of an experiment - there was a lot of frustration and heartache involved haha, and I wasn\'t happy with the finished result, but hopefully it looks ok!
I will write a more extensive explanation of the painting methods, colours etc. on my website soon.
ANyway, there you go! I really cannot believe that it won gold, it is an absolute dream come true. You should have seen how nervous I was all day at GD haha, oh my...and then how excited I was when I realised I had won something hahaha, it was so amazing!!!
So of course, any questions or criticisms or discussion or whatever are welcome, as always - we\'re all friends
here\'s the CMON link haha, sorry I had to do it
http://www.coolminiornot.com/172869
Well - I hope you enjoy it! I had problems getting good photos, so in the end I had to be satisfied with these: not the best, but ok I hope.
