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Beautiful. . . planning on selling?

Whens the first cast?

Ambull wrote:

Looks good though! Can't wait to see this bad boy cast.

I'm pushing ahead as much as possible. Claying-in the torso-legs section is going nicely, actually pretty complete now but for the sprues and channels (which is kind of grunt work, not too much involved there).





I'm getting excited to see how this will turn out.

argh, your a regular tease you now?

do you know when we will probably see some complete casted model from you...

hope all will go well.

vik

I like that you wrote on the slotta base - very professional and stylish - you could launch a range of miniatures on the strength of this I think

I would buy a a Grox! and make it into a burger!

The slotta-strip may not actually get used for stability in the end, I needed a decent channel between the feet, and in all honesty I put the letters on there just to see if I could do it. Someone, maybe someone on Dakka, posted a tutorial somewhere on how to do it, some techniques on getting the letters that small.

The closer I get to the end the more I want finished casts, this will move quickly now (I hope).

will you do more castingmoulds? so to like, cast lots of your fellas in short time?

would be nice to see a whole force of them...by the way, how are the supposed to move? are they rather slow ones or more faster? the pose looks like a lurch to me...^^

as said before, i´m anxious too to see it casted^^

good luck, vik

God!! The suspense is killing me... please cast it soon.

FTL

P.S. Great blog by the way!!

I actually have no idea how they move, I'll have to check the old Rogue Trader manual. They eat rocks or something. For the bases on the first few I'll have bits of rubble from their last feast.

They'll be on 1.5" round bases.

so they´re basicaly some kind of sifi troll or what, guess i have to check lexicanum about them^^.

vik

they have scaly rocky skin

Typically a treatment at an upscale day spa and a regiment of moisturizers can help this, but I think it gives the creature some character.

Plus, I sculpted textures that I thought would be really nice to paint: a little wash, a little drybrush, hey presto! Quick and easy.
Although I do want to give a little more color than just a cursory 1-2-3 get it on the table paint-job.

Yes you should get your ambull a pumice stone to buff down those unsightly rough areas.

argh please no detail killer on these fellas...
i can imaguine actually someone doing that with his minis...
some people might try evereything...

vik

Lol - no I'm only kidding

if you hadn´t said it, i´d have to say: "you must be kiddn`"
i love the sound of the word "kiddin`" ^^

vik

Nice!

Ambulls are subterranean alien creatures native to the desert death world of Luther Macintyre IX.

They can easily survive extremely hot temperatures, which has led to attempts at domestication on several hot desert planets. As a consequence, Ambulls can be found throughout the Imperium.

Ambulls have huge barrel chested bodies and an ape-like stance, their arms reaching almost to the ground, while their legs are crooked and short. The Ambull's most characteristic feature are their huge expandable jaws. Their eyes are able to sense heat.

The Ambull's limbs end in iron hard claws used for digging through the soft stone of their homeworld. Ambulls will excavate tunnels in which to live, spending most of their time underground. These burrows can often form extensive underground complexes.

Due to the intense heat of Luther McIntyre's sun, the Ambull's subterranean lifestyle is shared with many of the death world's inhabitants, including the Ambull's favorite food, the Crawler. Ambulls will pursue prey through soft rock by tunneling at considerable speed.

However it is worth noting that Ambulls were sighted on the ice world Simia Oricalcae while the Valhallan 597th were protecting a valuable promethium refinery. Commissar Ciaphas Cain sighted and slew a great number of the beasts while uncovering a system of tunnels under said refinery. Evidence shows that the creatures do as well on ice worlds, as they do on desert planets.

hey thanks for the fluff miss dee

vik

as vik said thanks for that!

Miss Dee: thanks for the fluff on these guys! It's very similar to the old Rogue Trader description.

Speaking of minis getting details smoothed down: this is something I encounter when I purchase old lead-figure sets: Some of the minis, while un-painted, have been handled so much that the details are all rubbed off. It's a shame and alerts us to the necessity for care whilst handling older metal minis.

I have no pics yet of this but I started pouring the second mold (legs and torso) last night. I should have that finished up quickly. My old silicone is really congealing, nasty stuff - take it from me kids: Always use fresh materials.

We demand more pics! Start casting!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the states. I've poured more silicone on the second mold, but here are some pics of the clay prior to the pour:


This shows the detailed nature of how the clay must reach right up to the master at the point at which I want the mold line to be:


And this is the bottom of the mold box, this is underneath the clay barrier that is shown in the above pics. All of this gets removed, just like the other mold, filled with silicone to create the other half.


I've accounted for the 'hinge' as with the other to make it one piece of rubber, opening like a clam-shell. I should have mentioned earlier - baby powder is a good thing to shake onto the contacting surfaces of two-or-more-part silicone molds, it makes them register and fit together more easily.

I didn't add too many sprues to this one as I'll probably just cut them into the rubber once it's cured. This piece is simpler than the head/arms section.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I like that you wrote on the slotta base - very professional and stylish - you could launch a range of miniatures on the strength of this I think

Seriously. This thread is amazing.


The ambull looks sorta like an Umber Hulk.

get it cast, quick! The suspension is killing me!

Looks like he/she , both is digging through that soft earth for dinner, that or his kids have burried him at the seaside !

You are my hero.

Hero!? Surely not.
Both molds are done, head/arms section and torso/legs section. Some air-voids in the torso/legs section but I'm not too concerned about that. A second mold can always be made with a vacuum chamber.

Next post will report on casting. Thanks for your patience to the folks who are following this.