some more....
After about a week of slacking, I did some more work on my Engine of the Gods...
So what I have learned...well, I\'ve learned that I suck at this

. I think I will have a problem with the last layer of thin apoxysculpt where I put details since the rough layers I got now are too thick. I will sand the model down a lot around the belly, and tail when the main form is done. I am happy with the forearms and the rear right leg but the rear left is a bit larger due to a..uhm..pipe running thru it, to protect the wires (which u can see coming out of the leg in one of the pics).
This morning before work, i removed the glass sphere and rubber stopper and put plasic bag to protect the coil.
As you can kinda see, I made a slight miscalc with the blue ring & coil. It\'s too high on the sides and front. Sooo....since I was gonna put stone/metallic armour/stuff on the back (similar to the GW Engine in the Lustria book, but hopefully better once done. I will extend the armour lower than I had wanted, and then put holes in it and glue larger spikes/horns. This should make it appear like the back of the dino has tons of long bone spikes/plates on it, and that the engine is mounted right on it\'s back so the armour had to take those spikes into account. I think I can still pull it off; I hope i can at least.
Still not sure to do about the details though on the skin.
I\'ve done the nostrils as well and will do more work tonite. Games Day england 2005 is 2 months away

I am so screwed... hehe
I\'ve thought of a way to incorporate freehand into the model as well (lizardmen do not use banners, use metal/stone totems so people normally do not paint freehand art on them, so that they fit the mayan/aztec theme of the lizardmen) but as I want this for a contest entry, since my painting isn\'t as good as well...any other golden demon entry, I need to pull out all the stops as far as I can push it in the last couple months. I hope that idea works out. Won\'t mention it here though
Ideas are just popping thru my head now and I want to do all of them... this will not be a fun last 7 or so weeks...
I\'m actually hoping for some big emergency at work that causes me to need to work later for a few days, to earn some leui time so that I can take some days off to paint in august or that i get a slight illness, again to let me stay at home, to get more work on it done.
Please post any comments...good, bad, etc ...
(if u post bad ones though, please provide a *tissue* to stop me from crying

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btw: the last batch of WIP pics people posted, sorry, can\'t remember submitters names, but awesome (espec the witchking). Tid...That minotaur is damn buff... looks nice..Is it confrontation? looks to stylized to be GW and too big to be reaper.
Spex - I can\'t tell if it\'s the natural room light or the paint on the mini. I think the skin needs another glaze or wash to get it a bit more defined and maybe a smaller lighter hilite on it? Where\'s professor Klute when u need him?

hehe Are you going to add freehand to the clothes thing in the front? Poor thing...you ripped off it\'s head
Sanjay
