How to sculpt an Ultramarine Logo and wraith?

Demon Hunter

New member
Hi, for an online painting competation on I site I regulary visited I got the idea of converting a Force Commander. I want to sculpt a couple of Ultramarine logo\'s and a Logo and wraith on the Power fist. But I have no expercience in doing these things. I fought I\'d make a small roll of GS, lay it in a U form, flatten it, let if cure and then shape out the U. With the wraith I wanted to do a similiar thing, but then sculpt a wraith shape ofcourse. Is this good thinking? Here is an example of what I mean by Tammy Haye:

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BigJim

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Well I\'m hardly the man to be giving out sculpting advice, but I\'ve tried to sculpt a few Ultras symbols before, so I\'ll be happy to let you know what I\'ve found out.

Personally I tend to start off with a square, roughly the size you want the symbol to be.

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It\'s probably not quite the same scale you\'re thinking of, but these are a couple of examples of my sculpts.
Basically I just rolled out some GS/Milliput (I tend to use a 50/50mix of Greenstuff & Milliput, but then I\'m a bit plain weird that way) & cut out a square.

Then you can use the top corners of the square to be the top corners of the flat part of the symbol.
Cut a small line down fom the middle of the top edge & press the handle of your brush, or a staw or something to make the hole in the middle.

I use the basic GW sculpty-poker, but you can use knives or proper tools or whatever you normally use, & then just cut out the curved bottom corners of the square, leaving you with a more traditional \"U\" shape.
Using the same tools snip the little triangles out from underneath the two upper corners to make the fancy little serif ends of the U symbol, & bam, you\'ve got a pretty accurate Ulras symbol.

Like I said, I\'m hardly profficient or anything & I\'d hardly say I\'m that experienced either, but that\'s how I do it (albeit very badly explained ;))

Best o\' luck.
 
Alternately you can take some of the existing plastics with Ultramarines symbols on them and \"shave\" them off with an exacto knife and then glue them in place. Or you can make molds off any logo on an existing model with green stuff.
 

QuietiManes

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The mold sounds like a good idea. If you dont have a model to make a mold from or you just wanna go the hard way I\'d suggest not letting the greenstuff cure fully before you start cutting away. Let it cure for 5-10 mins, then start into it with a hobby knife or what ever. It should retain its shape pretty good after 10 mins and still be alot easier to cut through.
 
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