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Wow man, looking hella cool! I like those heel-claw feet, reminds me of the game Spore.

I like it! I like the shape of the scythes you're making, looks good!

Excellent work on the body too!

I have another update for you.

This is the state my dark vengance bikers are in. I'm not so sure on the flames on the wheels of the champion but other than that i like them. They still need some additional chaosy decorations and weapons.


And i put hair on some of my female sculpts. I only need to decide how to do the two missing hands and they are finished.


Also i added some additional details on The Eternal Siren herself. It's hard to see but the leg on the left is supposed to have a sleeve similar to the one on the forgeworld keeper of secret. I'm thinking of adding some studs too. I also shaped the basic propotions of her arms but they where to short. Good thing is that i left the armature wire for them longer so i just need to add some more material to correct them.

Wow, that biker with flames looks amazing! The only things I can say is that the flames on his pack should also be flowing with the direction of the flames on the ground. That head cowling looks awesome as well!

i like the flames on the biker. they look pretty good

I know it's been said before, but WOW. Not only is your green stuff skill amazing, but your ability to come up with ideas and execute them is phenomenal.

 Deunstephe wrote:
The only things I can say is that the flames on his pack should also be flowing with the direction of the flames on the ground.

Thanks for pointing that out. Those flames where originally ment to be for my noise terminators but i decided against it as i had other mor fitting alternatives. So the flames where ment for a a standing model. I've started to add some more flames to them so that they get al least some more flow to them.

I'm currently in the process of finishing all those long time unfinished models that just gathered dust on my desk. And i asked myself if this head would work for my last unfinished possessed sculpt. What do you think? Is it too small or does it look acceptable?


And i also did some work on one of my slaves for objective markers. But I need some more 40mm bases for them as i can't fit him on 25mm ones. He is supposed to pull on the chain that binds him and i can't add both the chain and him on a small base. I can't sculpt his hands without the chain beeing finished so i need a base for him before i can continue.



And to finish todays update here is the state of my chaos spawn. He still needs a head, an hand and some minor touchups.



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I just did a dry fitting of the axe ment for my demon princess and it is way to small ... i need to create another axe head for her. The axe head looked more like a one handed axe compared to the length of the needed handle. But the axe isn't wasted as i might be able to use it on a future scratch build kharn.

I have another update for you. As i said the axe head i made was to small so i created another axe. All of those weapons are still wip but i like them. But it was a hell of work to sculpt all those small skulls on those two scytes in the middle. And i have to do the other side as well ...


And i wanted to add another picture of my obliterators representing that all of them are now finished.


But as crazy as i am i started another project. This way i'll never clean my working desk. But i set my goal to scratchbuild/convert all possible HQ choises. This legs are supposed to be the beginning of Ahriman.

I'm trying to get back into more sculpting and so far it is successfull. I've started to work on my missing HQ choises (Ahriman, Kharn and Huron). Both Kharn and Huron are only a pair of unfinished legs so no interesting stuff so far. But Ahriman looks better and better. But i asked myself what is iconic - what makes Ahriman Ahriman? His staff, his helmet, his robe or a combination of those? I want to create my own interpretation of him but still make him identifiable. This is where i'm at:


And i've also worked on the axe some more. Only the skull in the center needs some more work and the spot on the opposite is still empty. But is looks really cool. Just for scale i added a marine to the pic.



And oh wonder i send out my order of new toys and hobby supplies. And it is way more than i originally planed to order.

Loving the new axe, good work!

Thanks.


And i have a few more updates for you. It goes slowly as all the fine details take their time. But my scratchbuild HQ units are going smoothly.
I added another cloak layer to Ahriman. and started working on his staff. Those weapons next to the staff are the scytes for The Eternal Siren.




And this is my wip Huron. With all those tiny different colored details on his mechanical side it is hard to see all the details. But the basics should be visible in the picture. Still a lot to do but he looks promising. I especially like the belt thing. It was a pain in the ass to sculpt.



And this is Kharn. I bulked out his torso to create a big and mean look and to give this slaughtering beast credit. For this i widened his torso with plasticard circles and sculpted additional details directly onto the torso without fileing it down before. His leg-decoration still needs sanding to get rid if the cut marks and the marks from the file.



And look at that. My order is there. A bunch of stuff from anvil industry for my havoks and another additional project and a bunch of other GW kits and random hobby stuff. There is even a box of chaos marauders for my couts as nurgle marines missing from the picture. (The shop didn't have one as i placed my order so they'll send it as soon as they resupply.) As you can see i went with the defiler and not the soul grinder. I still plan on building a completely new torso but bifferent from the soul grinder one.

Seeing as you're using Milliput, I have a question for you...

I bought a pack of Milliput (the white variety) but I've had lots of problems with it. For one, it's much too course and crumbly, and is really difficult to get smooth. Also, no matter how well I mix it or how equally I cut the portions, it will not harden. I tried to create a weighted base for a Sonic figure using it, and several weeks later it's still slightly soft (I can easily make marks in it with my fingernails).

Did I get the wrong kind of Milliput? Am I doing something wrong? Does it need heating to cure?

Personally i use the yellow standard one (for it's cheapness) but i have tried the white one too. I didn't have problems with cureing. Mine worked fine.
Milliput should cure rock hard so i don't know what the problem with yours is. Maybe a bad batch or something.
If you mixed roughly equal parts of both components (the really crumbly white one and the smoother white one) you did as you should have.

And yes it has a totally different consistency than GS. It is more like clay and needs more attention to get smooth.
I use the yellow one because of it's cheapness and it isn't as dry as the white one. It is still crumbly but smooths better.
Most of the case i use it on larger stuff or mix it with GS to get a hybrid. All those lighter shades of GS in my blog are a mixture of GS and milliput standard. Adding GS to it reduces it's crumblyness and removes the tendency of GS to stick to itself. With that i can create much sharper details without a second smoothing step like pure GS needs.
But be aware that while the hybrid is easier to work with than pure milliput it is still harder than using pure GS.

Aha! A defiler! I knew you'd get one.

What are those little plastic bags filled with, just random bits?

I couldn't get the whispering voices out of my head telling me of incredible power and gifts i would receive once owning a defiler. But sadly despite having it now i do not feel different. Did the voices lie? Or maybe i need to build it first?

Those bags anvil industry stuff. Torsos, legs, autocannons, missle launchers, some bases and other smaller bits like drum magazines and such. As i went to theit site to buy the weapons i couldn't stop myself and added more and more stuff to my shopping cart ... At least i got free shipping out of it. XD

Is that an order from Battlefield Berlin?

If so, what forms of payment do they accept? I don't see a list of options on their website.

This is indeed a battlefield berlin order. (Well everything except the anvil industry stuff.) I used payment in advance as it was the best option for me. They also offer the normal in-contry stuff like cash on delivery and also paypal. But for orders to locations in germany they let you pay additional 3% when using paypal. Orders outside of germany don't have those 3%.

They answer some of those questions in their faq on their site.

So it would cost me more to use Paypal instead of a draft from my bank?

I think I will just order from CMON. It is cheaper for me than Battlefield Berlin.

I live in Baden-Wuerttemberg so I may eventually try Battlefield Berlin anyway. They have a much larger selection than Planet Fantasy (online retailer in Heidelberg).

I just wanted some of that standard Milliput that you are using so well. I like green stuff, brown stuff, super sculpey, and Pro Create but I have not tried Milliput yet.

Your sculpts are wonderful, and you are very creative and very productive.

They probably want to avoid paypal fees. It's a little bit strange as others don't do it like that but the large selection is a big plus.
You could also try https://www.radaddel.de/. I got my first warhammer models and modeling stuff from them. (Including milliput) They don't have the large selection like battlefield but they are friendly and fast. And they have a paypal option without fees as far as i know. And on top of that they give you 10% discount on most of their stuff if you order more than 30 €. (Wow, it was 50 € the last time i ordered from them )

 btldoomhammer wrote:
Personally i use the yellow standard one (for it's cheapness) but i have tried the white one too. I didn't have problems with cureing. Mine worked fine.
Milliput should cure rock hard so i don't know what the problem with yours is. Maybe a bad batch or something.
If you mixed roughly equal parts of both components (the really crumbly white one and the smoother white one) you did as you should have.

And yes it has a totally different consistency than GS. It is more like clay and needs more attention to get smooth.
I use the yellow one because of it's cheapness and it isn't as dry as the white one. It is still crumbly but smooths better.
Most of the case i use it on larger stuff or mix it with GS to get a hybrid. All those lighter shades of GS in my blog are a mixture of GS and milliput standard. Adding GS to it reduces it's crumblyness and removes the tendency of GS to stick to itself. With that i can create much sharper details without a second smoothing step like pure GS needs.
But be aware that while the hybrid is easier to work with than pure milliput it is still harder than using pure GS.

Thanks! It could be that I didn't mix it properly. When both halves are white, it's difficult to tell if it's properly mixed. Are there any variants of Milliput where both sticks are different colours (like Green Stuff)? Also, would rubbing in a little water make it more easily smoothable and sculptable? Water works well with the GW GS, but that's a very different stuff to Milliput...

 Squigsquasher wrote:

Thanks! It could be that I didn't mix it properly. When both halves are white, it's difficult to tell if it's properly mixed. Are there any variants of Milliput where both sticks are different colours (like Green Stuff)? Also, would rubbing in a little water make it more easily smoothable and sculptable? Water works well with the GW GS, but that's a very different stuff to Milliput...

I only used the yellow and white. Both had a whiteish/greyish component so i think that this is the case in the other milliput products as well. (Probably the hardener or something) That means that you will always have a hard time mixing it. With the yellow one you can at least estimate the mixing somewhat. With the other milliput variants i can't say for sure but i guess that the silver grey and black ones are as bad as the white. Maybe the terracotta is better. I don't know.
You can try to mix in a tiny bit of GS and you'll see the putty slowly getting to an even greenish shade. I mix the milliput first then mix the GS and finally mix both mixed putties together. This way the milliput will have two steps of mixing.

While Milliput reacts differently to water it still can be used to smooth it. But the doseage is important as due to the clay like consistency the more water you add the more liquid and mudlike it will become. It is like adding water to sand. You can build really nice sand castles with wet sand but once you add too much everything will turn into a sticky muddy mess. Especially the white one seems to quickly get muddy and really hard to work with. (At least for sculpting) But some use the so called "milliput juice" to close gaps as it runs into them once mixed with too much water. But it seems to be a very messy process.
Personally i lick my tools to get the required dose of wetness. But better wipe your tools before licking as milliput is a little bit more reactive to skin than GS. You might even noticed it already that you can get dry skin on the fingers you mixed your milliput with if you don't wash them for some time. (especially during a longer sculpting session)
Another good way of controlled wetness is a wet cloth. Not soaking wet but wet enough to moisten your tools if you press it into the cloth.

 btldoomhammer wrote:
I couldn't get the whispering voices out of my head telling me of incredible power and gifts i would receive once owning a defiler. But sadly despite having it now i do not feel different. Did the voices lie? Or maybe i need to build it first?

You just need to build it first I bet, then the idea juice will be gushing from your ears.

I also spy some oyuamru or instamold sticks, are you going to be making moulds for your own stuff so you don't have to sculpt/build them every time?

The voices always lie. Yet we always fall for it. Oh well. Nice sculpting. I don't know WHY you need an obliterater with boobies, but great job. And I'm curious to see what you're going to do with that defiler. You ARE going to defile a defiler, right? And don't just give it boobs.

 Deunstephe wrote:
I also spy some oyuamru or instamold sticks, are you going to be making moulds for your own stuff so you don't have to sculpt/build them every time?

I plan on doing that, yes. But i'll probably do this for more basic shapes. I like the individualized look my army has with every single trooper looking slightly different. But i might consider building basic shapes like legs and torsos that then can be decorated later. What i will definitely do with it is build and replicate some custom tank tracks for my vindicator. This beast finally needs to be finished.
I'll just play around with it and see how much details i can actually replicate like that. If it works better than just GS molds i will probably find some other uses for it. If not i might look at blu stuff or even casting in the future. (Maybe my crazy idea of a zerg tyranid force will jump from "probably not - too many zerglings to convert/sculpt" to "maybe in a few years". )

Munga wrote:
The voices always lie. Yet we always fall for it. Oh well. Nice sculpting. I don't know WHY you need an obliterater with boobies, but great job. And I'm curious to see what you're going to do with that defiler. You ARE going to defile a defiler, right? And don't just give it boobs.

I don't know if you noticed the "female CSM" in the blog title but if you look closer at the stuff in here you'll notice that roughly 90% of my models have boobs. It's that totally crazy idea that you once had and whatever you do can't get it out of your head.
And i might also add boobs on my defiler too but i don't know what i'll come up with. My primary goal is to replace the entire torso with a more biomechanoid looking one. Something along the line of a soul grinder but more flesh and metal fused together. Not the boxy defiler torso but also not the "normal" demon torso siting on top of mechanic legs. Maybe something like a segmented insectlike armor similar to the forgefiend. But i still don't know if i'll go the humanoid or the complete insectoid route. I'll make some scetches and see what i can come up with.


And just to add a little treat for you a quick picture of The Eternal Siren with her claw arms attached. The other pair will be sculpted later once her weapons are ready and i can actually create a nice pose for those arms. (It's not the best pic but i think you can see how she looks.)

 btldoomhammer wrote:

 Deunstephe wrote:
I also spy some oyuamru or instamold sticks, are you going to be making moulds for your own stuff so you don't have to sculpt/build them every time?

I plan on doing that, yes. But i'll probably do this for more basic shapes. I like the individualized look my army has with every single trooper looking slightly different. But i might consider building basic shapes like legs and torsos that then can be decorated later. What i will definitely do with it is build and replicate some custom tank tracks for my vindicator. This beast finally needs to be finished.
I'll just play around with it and see how much details i can actually replicate like that. If it works better than just GS molds i will probably find some other uses for it. If not i might look at blu stuff or even casting in the future. (Maybe my crazy idea of a zerg tyranid force will jump from "probably not - too many zerglings to convert/sculpt" to "maybe in a few years". )

Munga wrote:
The voices always lie. Yet we always fall for it. Oh well. Nice sculpting. I don't know WHY you need an obliterater with boobies, but great job. And I'm curious to see what you're going to do with that defiler. You ARE going to defile a defiler, right? And don't just give it boobs.

I don't know if you noticed the "female CSM" in the blog title but if you look closer at the stuff in here you'll notice that roughly 90% of my models have boobs. It's that totally crazy idea that you once had and whatever you do can't get it out of your head.
And i might also add boobs on my defiler too but i don't know what i'll come up with. My primary goal is to replace the entire torso with a more biomechanoid looking one. Something along the line of a soul grinder but more flesh and metal fused together. Not the boxy defiler torso but also not the "normal" demon torso siting on top of mechanic legs. Maybe something like a segmented insectlike armor similar to the forgefiend. But i still don't know if i'll go the humanoid or the complete insectoid route. I'll make some scetches and see what i can come up with.


And just to add a little treat for you a quick picture of The Eternal Siren with her claw arms attached. The other pair will be sculpted later once her weapons are ready and i can actually create a nice pose for those arms. (It's not the best pic but i think you can see how she looks.)

With regards to the Defiler, I wonder if something of similar structure to the Evangelion unit's torsos would work? They have a very slender, organic look to them*, whilst still looking like armoured robots. A curved, smooth body with a segmented waist could work well, methinks.



*Don't open this if you haven't seen Evangelion yet!

I think squigsquasher is right, I think the evangelion shape might work well. However you might have the slim down the legs a bit or just bulk the torso in general



also something I came across while looking for inspiration for my own chaos, would be cool to see you do a similar face

I have a EVA 02 unit model standing on the shelf. (Next to my Arthas and Shadowrun street samurai ) I think it is too clean for a chaos model and the waist is to thin. But i might use the basic layout of the armor for something. I'll think about it.

Lazarus the first picture you posted is no more. And the second is allready in my inspiration folder. I thought about using a face like that for my noise terminators but i decided against it. And currently i don't have models planed where such a face would fit. Maybe if i build some more terminators or a lord.


I've made my first experiments with instant mold with mixed results. It's really hard to get in all cracks but if it does it catches most of the details. I can't show you pictures because i used GS bits for testing and i have destroyed both mold and copied pieces afterwards. I'll need some more experience and some pieces that i can replicate freely like some sculpted stuff or maybe some converted helmets and shoulder guards.

Maybe a bipedal defiler, like this one from Brush4Hire? http://imgur.com/a/8pXH0

I have looked at a lot of defilers on two legs. While this would add the rest of the legs to my bits collection for other conversions i kinda like the multi-legged walker tank style. My scratchbuild counts as vindicator is a six legged walker and my spider rhinos will be 8 legged. (Once i get my final inspiration and start working on them ... )

Maybe a 4 legged defiler is an option. But the more i struggle the more i think that i'll follow an approach similar to the soulgrinder but with a more mechanized humanoid torso. If i remember correctly i still have an old spiderman with carnage symbiont action figure with missing legs that might be of nice shape and size. Or i'll build it from scratch like i did with both my demon princess and The Eternal Siren.

But until i have started working on the defiler i'm open for ideas. Just throw them at me. They might not go into the defiler but i still have some other conversions to make that lack the final inspiration. (like the spider rhinos and some more tank conversions.)

 btldoomhammer wrote:
I have a EVA 02 unit model standing on the shelf. (Next to my Arthas and Shadowrun street samurai ) I think it is too clean for a chaos model and the waist is to thin. But i might use the basic layout of the armor for something. I'll think about it.

Lazarus the first picture you posted is no more. And the second is allready in my inspiration folder. I thought about using a face like that for my noise terminators but i decided against it. And currently i don't have models planed where such a face would fit. Maybe if i build some more terminators or a lord.


I've made my first experiments with instant mold with mixed results. It's really hard to get in all cracks but if it does it catches most of the details. I can't show you pictures because i used GS bits for testing and i have destroyed both mold and copied pieces afterwards. I'll need some more experience and some pieces that i can replicate freely like some sculpted stuff or maybe some converted helmets and shoulder guards.

I wasn't suggesting using an actual Evangelion model kit as the basis for the Defiler (desecrating Evangelion figures is heresy! Heresy I tell you! /toynerd) as it would be tricky to make the figure parts look like a part of the model, rather than a looted Eva strapped to a defiler, but rather just using the look of the units as inspiration (curved armour, segmented waist, lanky, top heavy proportions, monstrous, organic yet strangely feminine aesthetics) and scratchbuilding the necessary parts.

I reckon adding the traditional Chaos armoured banding/trim to the waist segments would help a lot.