The Headed Hunter

The Headless Hunter has now become the Headed Hunter.

First off: I hate grey stuff. I bought it to try out and indeed it acts a lot like green stuff, but it says "non-sticky" on the packaging. Now, this is a problem. The putty sticks more to my fingers that to the scalp to which I was trying to affix it. So, that's why there are two kinds of putty in the images below.

The first pic is of the face before the hair, the second is of the first braid, and then follows shots from all manner of angles of the finished result. I decided on giving him cornrows for a less Roman legionnaire/USMC, more tribal look. I've always enjoyed the idea of GW's space marines as being drawn from feral humans on technologically regressed planets and I wanted to give him an unusual hairstyle still good for a warrior.

Just to note, I've myself had rasta braids before and after doing this I long to have that kind of hair again. Enjoy the pics.

The Headless Hunter, part 2

The headless hunter has a face coming up. Doing Pebbles made me a little more confident about doing more human faces. This one actually looks fairly naturalistic for being my first non-monstrous face.

He still needs some kind of hair and/or beard to give him some personality, but we're getting there...

Preview: The Contessa and her guard

The main number here is the trigger happy girl in the middle - the Contessa. The troopers are there for dramatic effect. They need a little bit more work, but the Contessa is ready for painting.

'I'LL BE BACK, SCUM!'

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.