minor sculpting over existing miniature from another manufacturer
I’ve been doing a few sculpting/converting commissions lately. Three of the projects require me to sculpt quite a lot of custom detail on otherwise standard GW models, and then make an army’s worth of models out of these. To keep the projects affordable and at a high quality I opted to make several master models[…]
Another little thing I did lately was a funny little conversion of a Skaven sorcerer. I dug him up from a bitsbox in the Studio, and with the new “Island of Blood” WFB starter making us thinking of starting this whole no-space-travel funny game system, I couldn’t resist the urge to convert and paint him[…]
Another status update. This week I’ve been touching up and highlighting the checkers and the armour. Some extreme highlights to make it “shine” still to go. Also, the gems only have the basecoat on for now. I finished the base for the Phantom though (maybe a wash or two are still to go) and made[…]
For the last week I was masking the titans for the checkers pattern, which I foolishly decided it would be faster to make with an airbrush. Wrong! 3 days of meticulous checker removal, and after I airbrush them, there will be 3 more days to remove the other half of the masking! And even then[…]
I finally solved the limpy weapons syndromme ravenants had – I inserted additional magnets at about 90deg to the main one in the torso-arm and arm-weapon joints. I then added 2 more to each joint in the arm bit, allowing it to be attached at 3 different angles at the arm and at the elbow.[…]
Work on this commission continues. I assembled the Ravenants and made bases for all 3 titans. Just some minor sculpting left (some extra gems here and there, some detail around the pilots), and the converting one of the Phantom’s pulsars into a destroyed version to represent the weapon destroyed result left – I think I[…]
Here’s some more progress pics. It’s kind of funny how I spent 2 weeks cutting, sculpting and sanding almost every surface and 80% of it doesn’t even show at the first glance. For me that’s what defines good conversion work. It’s a little bit frustrating though. So for the record: I sanded the chest piece[…]
I’ve been commissioned by a long-term customer, Rob, to build and paint him 2 Ravenant titans (FW) and a Phantom titan (Armorcast) for his Eldar army. Now, he sent me the models back in January, right after I finished updating his Eldar army up to the 5th edition, but due to my other commitments I[…]