I managed to get hold of this mini from Artel W before it went OOP - I'm guessing copyright infringement as he is Gabriel Angelos from the Dawn of War video games series:
Edited by sbarnby71, 17 April 2018 - 07:17 AM.
I managed to get hold of this mini from Artel W before it went OOP - I'm guessing copyright infringement as he is Gabriel Angelos from the Dawn of War video games series:
Edited by sbarnby71, 17 April 2018 - 07:17 AM.
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Holy guacomole, that looks like its going to be an awesome Logan. or alternatively, a new Chapter Master for a Space Wolf successor chapter.
"The 6th Legion has a reputation." said Bear.
"All the Legions Astartes have reputations," replied Hawser.
"Not like ours," said Ogvai "We are known for our ferocity. We are thought to be feral and undisciplined. Even brother Legions consider us to be wild and bestial."
"And you're not ?" asked Hawser.
"If we need to be," said Ogvai. "but if that was our natural state, we'd all be dead by now."
He leaned down towards Hawser like a parent addressing a child.
"It takes a vast amount of self control to be this dangerous" he said.
Excerpt from "Prospero Burns" by Dan Abnett
Nice start to the project, press-moulding is certainly a great aid for adding specific details.
This is great. I am looking forward to the finished product.
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Thanks folks for the comments, I hope I do this figure justice.
Thought I'd add some pics of what he would look like without conversion, show more of the dynamics of the pose:
Edited by sbarnby71, 18 April 2018 - 11:45 AM.
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Thanks folks for the comments, I hope I do this figure justice.
Thought I'd add some pics of what he would look like without conversion, show more of the dynamics of the pose:
Started work on the loin-cloth (don't know why but that word always make me laugh)...
I would normally remove something like this with a pair of side-cutters, but the resin this is made of is so brittle, I really thought it would split down the middle when I started:
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Armies Played:
Space Wolves - ~3,000 Points
Where can I learn about casting? The results look fantastic!
I join to this question. Results looks great, and something tells me that it was achieved a little simplier than I've suspected
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Press Molding (which this seems to be) is really easy. You need a material for your mold, most often its a Thermal plastic like Oyumara (you can get it off ebay or amazon and is cheap). When you heat it up in warm water it becomes soft and you can press in what you want to copy. As it cools (which is fast) it hardens but stays subtle so its easy to pop the shape back out.
Use greenstuff to create copies using the mold, waiting a few (I do about 3) hours to remove the greenstuff, so it can harden out a bit to not warp but is not completely solid. Again for easy of removing it from the mold. No need for lubrication, the greenstuff won't stick to the plastic.
And voila you have a copy of your piece.
The Oyumara can be reheated and reused over and over to make different molds.
full 3d shapes are technically possible but 2 part molds are a lot more complicated and you can get pretty bad mold lines down the split. But anything with a (mostly) flat back is easy.
It transfers a lot more detail then you would expect at first.
Only had time to apply the shin-guard studs this weekend and also I added tread to the other foot - yeah you'll never see it, but I would know it's missing and it would bug me, plus his left foot would be half a mill thicker than the right, etc.
Edited by sbarnby71, 23 April 2018 - 06:45 AM.
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Press Molding (which this seems to be) is really easy. You need a material for your mold, most often its a Thermal plastic like Oyumara (you can get it off ebay or amazon and is cheap). When you heat it up in warm water it becomes soft and you can press in what you want to copy. As it cools (which is fast) it hardens but stays subtle so its easy to pop the shape back out.
Use greenstuff to create copies using the mold, waiting a few (I do about 3) hours to remove the greenstuff, so it can harden out a bit to not warp but is not completely solid. Again for easy of removing it from the mold. No need for lubrication, the greenstuff won't stick to the plastic.
And voila you have a copy of your piece.
The Oyumara can be reheated and reused over and over to make different molds.
full 3d shapes are technically possible but 2 part molds are a lot more complicated and you can get pretty bad mold lines down the split. But anything with a (mostly) flat back is easy.
It transfers a lot more detail then you would expect at first.
Yep this is the process I'm using, one thing I would say is I'm not 100% sold on the use Oyumara type moulds. For me they are not soft enough during the moulding process to get very fine detail, a good example of this is if you took a mould from a GW skull, the Oyumara will not go completely into the eye sockets, so you end up with a very shallow imprint. I use Blu-Stuff, it's a two part putty that is very, very soft, this allows it to be pushed into all the cracks and lines in the piece you want to copy, it has a longer working time, but only up to about 1 to 2 minutes max.
The downsides of Blu-Stuff are:
I started off with Blu-Stuff, then went to Oyumara as it is cheaper and can be re-used. I would recommend that people start with Oyumara, get used to how to make a mould, then if you want real fine detail, use Blu-Stuff. With Oyumara when you re-use it you need to be careful with getting it real smooth again and try and avoid getting air bubbles in it otherwise your moulds have lines left over from the re-heat, reshape process and worst of all an air bubble that then bursts when you try and use the mould.
Edited by sbarnby71, 23 April 2018 - 10:35 AM.
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Started work on the right shoulder pad, looked at some of the Pop Goes the Monkey and Puppets War pieces I had, but I really like the beading around the edge on the original:
Edited by sbarnby71, 24 April 2018 - 07:21 AM.
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Added a small Wolf Skull to the shield on the belt after removing the Blood Ravens symbol:
Edited by sbarnby71, 27 April 2018 - 07:09 AM.
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I was going to leave the crux terminates on the left shoulder pad:
Edited by sbarnby71, 27 April 2018 - 07:09 AM.
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Space Wolves are badasses that operate just barely within the rules. 13th Co. didn't even know there were rules applying to how badass they could be. DepthCharge on the Space Wolves
I'm so pleased that GW have gone to such great lengths to produce these awesome Space Wolves basing kits. Wraithwing on the Thousand Sons Rubic Marine release
"The Fell Hand is a name that has been passed on through out the Legion. When one warrior bearing it died, the name is left to be earned by another. Thus it was passed from Floki to Volund to Erik to Geigor. And then the tradition died, because Bjorn got the name and proceeded to live for 10
millenia." - Sagas of the Wolf Priests. Wispy
I can't write anything here, each time I come I start drooling like crazy and I must run to not soak the keyboard
Howl to the Moon, you won't regret it.
Next for the head, this is the one it comes with and I kinda like it, the jaw line looks good and solid, but not very SW:
Option one would need some work to add a beard or a braid.
Option two looks too young to me.
Option three is grizzled old veteran, like a chapter master/Wolf Lord should be.
Any preferences???
Edited by sbarnby71, 28 April 2018 - 02:03 PM.
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"By the River fettered Fenrir will lie till draws nigh the doom of the Gods." - Frey, Lokasenna: 41
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