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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat start of project 14/08/13
PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 6:25 pm 
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Lorindol wrote:
Cool battle matt! Really want to see it painted. Is it going to be grass land of more rock like?

How did you make those elven shields? I would like to make some my self but don't have a methode of molding them with green stuff. good idead to use an old dvd. smooth surface

I really love your catapult! As I have some old sprues as well I'm thinking about doing the same if you don't mind? Are those rohan shield in the wheels?
How did you make the plastic look like wood? Did you use a carving knife?

@ Lorindol the shields were from a mould I made by pressing a metal shield into some water covered greenstuff, the catapult wheels are the centre pieces of the newer sprues (and of course I don't mind, if i did I wouldn't have a wip page :) ) rohan shield could work but they might be a bit thin.
I made the plastic look like wood by scoring it with an old serrated knife blade, which takes very thin shaving off at a time

Back to the mat; I do intend to paint it soon, as soon I make a 4 by 6 table for it.
The aim is to have a board I can just roll up, It will be harad based board, lots of dried up oases and dead trees and a butt-ton of sand to boot
in-fact I have a sample I painted up bellow:
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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat start of project 14/08/13
PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:31 am 
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Procrastination, Parkour, a back injury, and uni stuffs having got the better of me recently I have failed (yet)to make a table for my mat
Nevertheless this project is exciting and I just went ahead and started painting the mat anyways.
some wip pics of the mat

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mumakil for scale purposes only
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lots of sand
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cracked earth
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details of rocks
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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat project going strong 10/09/13
PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:45 pm 
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It certainly looks quite effective

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat project going strong 10/09/13
PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:55 pm 
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You have 3 Mumaks ? Nice.
The mat is a great piece of terrain and I watch with interest on how it will look when finished.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat project going strong 10/09/13
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When I finish the mat, I will have a Harad vs Far Harad battle as inauguration keep posted people and yes the 3 Mumakil are mine 8)

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Battle mat project going strong 10/09/13
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:54 am 
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So It has been a while but here goes a whopper of pics to show some progress on my latest project, Beorn man and Bear forms, from scratch as I never liked the Games Workshop versions, Pics are in Chronological order to help see progress. The man form is now finished painting.
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That's it as far as Man Beorn goes, here goes the Bear form wip now

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
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Well, only three mumakil to compare on the mat, I guess it still looks good. :-D
As for beorn, you have some good basic form work there. I think you could benefit from looking over may of the sculpting articles that UKFreddybear placed links to on the sculpting thread he made. It will help, I know it is helping me a lot.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
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Some updates on Beorn As a Bear:
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And some more wip photos on my blog, see the signature.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
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You have done a great job on the fur.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
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A great effort. Some tips you might find useful:
With fur, start near the bottom of the mini, dragging wavey lines downwards maybe 1-2mm working across the mini. Then repeat this process slightly above the first area, dragging lines down to overlap the first layer.

Teeth on minis as big as this look much better when added individually rather than pushed into a strip of putty. For individual teeth you need to make cone shapes by applying more pressure to one end of a thin sausage of putty than the other when rolling it.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
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Thanks for the tips Dave, I usually make teeth individually, but for some inexplicable reason was compelled to try something different with this model.

I'am starting the painting now.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP Beorn sculpt 14/07/14 pic heavy
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:51 pm 
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So it has been too long since my last update...
here goes, what will imo be my biggest sculpting challenge and full stop project ever undertaken, dwarfing the mumak I sculpted a few years back by a long shot.
Smaug!!!!!!!!!!!!
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the armature was quite a bit of fun to make and it was tricky finding suitable things to use
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by this stage I had already burned through 3 pack of milliput
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base template made on paint and printed out, as per the gw website, 23.1 long and 13.3 wide (CM)
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some more millput added
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base now finished and breast amplified
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and finally the start of the jaw/head structure
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At this point I have already got through 6 packs of milliput and there is still plenty to do before the beast can be unleashed

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 15/12/14
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^This is going to be interesting

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 15/12/14
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I've been thinking about making the wings magnetised for ease of transport, and I have a fairly good idea of how to proceed with the skin/scales

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 15/12/14
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This is quite and undertaking but he's already coming together nicely I'd say. Looking forward to see how you make him look when the detailing begins.

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 15/12/14
PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:45 pm 
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Following with great interest, looking good

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 15/12/14
PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:07 pm 
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So I have been busy :D

Neck skin texturing
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Wings constructed, and for scale check them out compared with the current lotr dragon
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head detail
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the scale of this beast is completely off the chart
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Definitely not toothless
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turning the other cheek
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A little manicure
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A cave drake for scale
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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 20/12/14, pic heavy
PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:21 pm 
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Coming along really well, i can see from the EFGT box that he is one big dragon!

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 20/12/14, pic heavy
PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:39 pm 
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Nice work, looking very interesting

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 Post subject: Re: Grungehog's WIP SMAUG sculpt 20/12/14, pic heavy
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