Some WIPs

So, once again I haven't uploaded anything to this blog in a while, but here are two projects. The first is a complete sculpt with greystuff and greenstuff meant to represent a dark eldar archon (GW's game system, my original model). I was just unhappy with GW's archon model because A) there is no female version, and I wanted my evil forces to be led by a woman for a change, and B) he looks terribly static which I think is unsuitable for such a combat oriented character. The second mini is a haemonculus made with spare parts (including some graciously donated by a friend of mine); the interesting bit is the hump on his back containing internal organs and sprouting extra limbs. Creepy little bastard.

They still need some more detailing, after which they'll be painted.

Merry Christmas (or whatever you're celebrating this time of year), since I can't promise that nothing more will get done before the season's upon us.

Kairye Seeker finished sculpt

Here is the finished Kairye Seeker miniature (except perhaps some smoothing down with sandpaper, although I think that I got most of that done already). Now I have to paint her, and I'm more than a little curious as to how that'll turn out. The pics below are front, back, close up (as close as my camera will let me anyways) and side view.

The boots needed some last minute alterations; the left one didn't seem to be the same hight and was actually way too short! The putty isn't even properly cured in the pics, since I was in a hurry but wanted to take them to write this post while out, although I still ended up writing it from the comfort of my own bed after coming home again.

I ended up reworking the face a lot since I posted the first pic, especially the mouth and the eyes. I think it might be passable at this stage, although that remains to see after painting.

One note: Green stuff really looks horrible when you take a file or sandpaper to it. For the Headless Hunter I've decided to work in milliput, which's easier to work on with files/sandpaper (as an aside, he might not stay headless too much longer now...). Hopefully the horrible patches won't show up as nasty textures after painting.

More pics when I've had time to paint her.

Kairye Seeker

To start off this minature sculpting blog (to anyone who's actually reading: Hello...!) I'm uploading a picture of a current work in progress (also my first miniature sculpted completely from scratch).

The scale is about equivalent to 25mm wargames (e.g. GW games etc) and the material is Kneadite/Green stuff over a garden wire armature. The character depicted is an old fantasy RPG character portrayed by my friend Erika Hoffman (prolific artist and designer who's eventually going to make a living in a the creative world were most of us will always be but enthusiastic dilettantes *hats off*) after an illustration done by her. This sculpt is a project I've been at on and off for a long time, what with university life and so on taking its toll.

More pics when I've sculpted proper details on her.