Yeah, I'm really Lost and Damned. Especially now that LatD went to search for the lost (sheesh, those bad puns just keep on coming, don't they...) Squat Beer Festival. But once you're Lost, you're Lost for ever. And Damned too.

This is supposed to be a miniature for my GD entry sometime in the not very distant future, part of a lager squad of very special Big Mutants (like there's any other type). He's named Wharghhh. Or will be when I finish him. Still very WIP. Forgive the poor quality of those photos, I can't be bothered with assembling a light tent for WIP's.

Eerie. I see some concepts in the back, any complete ones?

He looks really cool and he pulls off the mutant, chaos look very well.

FearPeteySodes wrote:Eerie. I see some concepts in the back, any complete ones?

Hah, just this one as you see him here. I need to attach the right hand, add piping and rivets and do the wires he has instead of legs. There's going to be Mr. Tank and Dr. Smokey too but they exist only as concepts as of now...

His Master's Voice wrote:

FearPeteySodes wrote:Eerie. I see some concepts in the back, any complete ones?

Hah, just this one as you see him here. I need to attach the right hand, add piping and rivets and do the wires he has instead of legs. There's going to be Mr. Tank and Dr. Smokey too but they exist only as concepts as of now...

Gotchya, very nice so far. What are you using to sculpt?

I'm not sure about the body but the cylinders on his back look a little like cork. Do I win?

snorkle wrote:I'm not sure about the body but the cylinders on his back look a little like cork. Do I win?

No cylindrical smoking item for you. The body was sculpted with Brown Stuff from Reaper and the canisters with Magic Sculpt. The chippings on the canisters are intentional. That's why it looks a bit like cork now.

Bwaahahahhahahah!

Happiness is a blog by HMV. Digging this dude's head, and his just generally big mutant stature

Ridiculously good to see more from you man, keep it coming!

- Salvage

Looks incredible so far, I'll be eagerly following this build!

I already like very much what I am seeing here. that head reminds me of resistance, and I havent even played the game.

keep it up

The photos are pretty good and far away from piss poor. I would be glad if erveryone here could come to that standard. What bothers me a bit is his pose which is not really aggrisve. And I suggest more metal shining through some where. He got the 5 stars on creepy chaos monster but you should keep in mind that GD are one recently by a lot of free hand works (the more the better it seems not a trend I like) so tatoos maybe an option here.

I've made some progress with The Freak. All of those wires are hand made since I couldn't force strings to stay the way I wanted them to stay. But it hurt. A lot.

And, unfortunately, the effect is far from what I expected. Maybe, when finished, it would look better but sometimes it's better to avoid the Rhino Syndrome (as in rhino, the animal and not rhino the vehicle, for those unfamiliar with the term). One should stop and review it's attempts. As a result this concept was born.



The crouching, spider-y pose fits the thing nicely and, more importantly, allows me to avoid the look of a fleshy Necron Wraith. I would value any advice as to the route I should take here.

Spooky and fairly original, with a french feeling twist. What a treat today's visit to dakka has been It clearly works to take some time off and then have heaps of coolness to witness.

Wow, very nice. I didn't care for the whole mess o' hanging cables idea and seeing your new concept sketch I strongly urge you to go in that direction.

Dude, that is simply amazing. You have some excellent ideas there, and, well, I'm speechless.

That looks great, but to avoid the wraith look, will you put brownstuff around the wires?

Scap the wires, enter froggy legs. Still nedd to do the feet but other than that, the fleshy part is finished. Now for the pipes, wires, mechanical joints and stuff like that.

GOOD call on that one HMV, I was hoping your revised sketch was going to become reality. Pity about the time and effort that went into those tubes, but I think the crouch of doom is much better for this dude. Look forward to the addition of cybery bits, and his tongue again

- Salvage

You should cast and sell these. Seriously. I'd buy alot.

very cool.

altough I realize that you're still in a very eraly stage, I can't shake the feeling that he looks too naked. IMO it needs a lot of cyberbits.

Before, the model looked awesome despite the enormous traps and disproportionately small arms because of the "wraith-y" pose. Now, with legs, the atrophied arms bother me more.

Still absolutely stunning work, though.

Edit:
Eh, actually the arms are a huge part of what makes it original.

Not much of an update but still...

NICE!
now that's what I'm talking about. the holes in the skin make it look like something from matrix somehow.

Love this guy. What talent!

Can't wait for the feet and final pose.

Nice sculpts! I will have to keep an eye on this.

Platuan4th wrote:You should cast and sell these. Seriously. I'd buy alot.

Speaking of which HMV, how are those minotaurs coming along? I need me some naked monster fighting (and not with GeeDub's ugly cows ) ...

- Salvage

WOW! Awesome, it reminds me of the Angels from Evangelion

Absolutely amazing. There are lots of pretty, well-sculpted minis on the forums, but this is different--this is art.

Any more flattery and I'll be starting my own church

Another small update. More wires jabbed in, alternated back sockets and three screws screwed into the neck. There's going to be lots of those in the knees and elbows.

Boss_Salvage wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:You should cast and sell these. Seriously. I'd buy alot.

Speaking of which HMV, how are those minotaurs coming along? I need me some naked monster fighting (and not with GeeDub's ugly cows ) ...

- Salvage

They're wandering in the Chaos Wastes searching for someone who would cast them. The only polish company that does casting on demand acts a bit... silly, so I'm currently considering other, foreign possibilities. I assure you'll be the first to know when they're available.

Excelent to hear, and good luck with less silly casters.

The beasty here is looking better and better

- Salvage

The body is finished. I still need to attach the tanks (currently reconsidering the size of those) and sculpt the feet (only when I decide on the final shape of the base). Speaking of which, should I go with a standard 40mm base with the pipe sticking out like on the earlier version, or should I do a full plinth-style base like some of those GD entries have?

He deserves the plinth.

I dunno. maybe you can sketch something up and we vote.

Plinth Style would be my choice. Good idea with the screws adds he nasty low tech mech 40k flavour to the model.

So much better than Chaos Possessed models...

looks like its coming together nicely.

My vote was initially gonna be "40mm is better unless this if for GD." Then I saw it's indeed for GD ...

Plinth the lad up.

Graci on the background image as well

And finally, no rivets on the crotch plate? For some reason I was expecting them ...

- Salvage

This dude is scary. Nightmare scary. Not Khorne Berzerker foaming at the mouth scary. This is much scarier. This is the type of scary that Chaos should be. Not the kind of scary that's portrayed in GW's miniature line.

Boss_Salvage wrote:My vote was initially gonna be "40mm is better unless this if for GD." Then I saw it's indeed for GD ...

Plinth the lad up.

Graci on the background image as well

She's going to be a Beastman Cheerleader

Boss_Salvage wrote:And finally, no rivets on the crotch plate? For some reason I was expecting them ...

- Salvage

Your inquisitiveness is astounding. I guess I'll have to do the rivets...

I'm not yet sold on plinth idea mainly because he's supposed to be a member of a unit. Unless I decide to enter him as a single miniature he would look strange with an OTT base. One thing I know for sure is that he's going to be crouching on a mutilated, wingless aquilla. I'll just have to get some milliput or Magic Sculpt to do that (I'm not going to waste Brown Stuff on things like that).

She does have pom-poms! I was clearly distracted by other soft round things at the creepy dude's eye level ...

- Salvage

I'm not yet sold on plinth idea mainly because he's supposed to be a member of a unit. Unless I decide to enter him as a single miniature he would look strange with an OTT base.

Oh, I must have missed that fact.

Honestly though, I think the look you've created is so distinctive that you really would be better off entering him as a single mini. Having a squad of them, even if they're not the same, only dilutes the effect.

You know a mini is hot when I don't even NOTICE the half naked daemon chick in the background.

I find that I had occaision to say that disturbing in the "is it the gaming, or the wedding ring?" kind of way.

Damn.

Nice.

Damn.

Nothin' else to say.

Except "Damn".

In my opinion, go for the playable base over the display pedestal. I think it's important from the standpoint of context, to remind the viewer that it's a piece of a game and not a straight-on sculptural object (which it also certainly qualifies as, beautiful work). The real power of the piece comes from viewing it in context of the universe it comes out of and shares with the rest of us, 40k, and and resides in your vision of that shared space.

The piece needs to exist as a working object. Terrific work.

Okay, I won the base war.

Mr Creep finished.

Look at the rear end on that thing... He must work out.

It looks absolutely awesome. Very "Freakshow".

Arghhhh, I forgot to do the rivets on the crotch plate. Back to the surgery with him...

His Master's Voice wrote:Arghhhh, I forgot to do the rivets on the crotch plate. Back to the surgery with him...

My first thought in fact

The lad looks great in all other ways though. Glad you went with the low base, wonderfuly busted up stuff for him to stand on.

Now ... post-surgery is Mr. C seeing paint? Or are his buds getting worked on first?

- Salvage

I'd have to buy those paints first

Considering that I'll contend myself with sculpting.

You are not serious about the feet there are no claws!

Well, there aren't any skulls on the model either, but it's still for 40k isn't it?

Joe's got a point. he looks so agil, he should have clawed feet too.

And he should be cast and sold so that I can buy one. Pweeease?!

That's gorgeous, literally, just gorgeous...

What medium did You sculpt this beautiful attrocity in, if I might ask (or, if I somehow didn't notice it mentioned)?...

Symbio Joe wrote:You are not serious about the feet there are no claws!

I tried claws. It didn't work. At all. He looked... well.. bad. Maybe I should have tried harder...

hivefleet_providence wrote:That's gorgeous, literally, just gorgeous...

What medium did You sculpt this beautiful attrocity in, if I might ask (or, if I somehow didn't notice it mentioned)?...

Brown Stuff and Pro Create for the aquilla.

Platuan4th wrote:And he should be cast and sold so that I can buy one. Pweeease?!

I'm afraid those hands are uncastable. I'd have to take some advice on this one.

I for one think the little metal booties work fine. Make him even more top heavy in fact, which is a good thing in Creepy's case.

- Salvage

Just thicken the upper foot and make two claws and a spur.

Or not. . . I think he looks great, I like the metallic hooves, and I think your vision for the Creepy is right on. Nice work, and nice re-work. So far you have followed your own idea of what to to with him and he looks great.

Reminds me of a joke I heard-

Q: How many 40k players does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: 40. One to do it, and the other 39 to sit around and talk about how they could have done it better.

Since I'm laden with commissions right now I don't think I can put enough time and effort into sculpting Creeps friends. Instead I'll try and show some of the commissioned work.

Here we have some concepts for a Strigany vampire.





The customer choose the first one to be the lord and I think the second one make a nice thrall. It's a Lustrian themed army so some more conceptual work is in order.

Here's a very early stage of sculpting. Just a few hours really...

tegeus-Cromis wrote:--this is art.

I think the same...

-edit: Where are the cylinders?

-(i liked the wraith better but it's your mini.)

eyth wrote:
-edit: Where are the cylinders?

That occured to me too ...

New vampy thing is looking buff and mean. Don't vamps come on 20mm bases? Or has this lad been up-based due to bigness concerns?

- Salvage

Boss_Salvage wrote:

eyth wrote:
-edit: Where are the cylinders?

That occured to me too ...

New vampy thing is looking buff and mean. Don't vamps come on 20mm bases? Or has this lad been up-based due to bigness concerns?

- Salvage

I have to redesign the canisters to look more 40K-ish (no skulls involved).

The vamp is based on a large base simply because I don't have a normal one. Though a 40mm mini might have stability issues on a 20mm base...

Wings re-done, ears added

He looks great.
What will you do for hands. I think the hands you sculpted on the other models maybe a little too big for him.
I'm sure you'll do a great job.

just thoguht it would beb easier to post here, how much do you charge for you custom models?? (about inquisitor scale size)

Nice - I really like the modification you made to the wings. The earlier wings looked good, but were fairly uninteresting. Between the bone detailing and the attachment points to the muscles in the arms, I think it looks really strong now.

Freaks of the world UNITE!!

-edit: Forgot to say what everyone told ya' : KoOoOoL

The body is finished, Now I'll have to think up some Lustrian themed details.

Another commission ready. Some of you might recognize this one...

HMV Deathcow, groovy

Appreciate the smashy warhammer and armor plates particularly. The 'face' seems a bit minimalist (as in, looks like not a lot of work done to it?) which works for the chaos angle - no lips, exposed teeth, etc - but unsure for the beast angle. I do like it though, for the "freakshow" spookiness of his face

- Salvage

That's how the customer wanted it. You never argue with the customer. Especially when you're lazy like me

I'm afraid the photo washed out some of the finer detail on the head. Unfortunately , since I've already shipped the model I won't be able to get better ones.

LOL - the superdeluxe rotato-deathcow looks a bit like he's dancing...

Great stuff, though! The backside of the hammer looks wicked. It looks like his abdomen is a little crunched behind his Texas-sized rodeo-winnings belt buckle.

The Stigany lord finished with custom saurus skin loincloth. Next up, The Slimmest Strigoi Vampire That Has Ever Ripped Your Head Off.

Vamp looks ver nice with the little accesories added, and way to stick it to the lizards Batty

Will be waiting for the skinny strigoi!

- Salvage

Dude I do not know what your problem with feet is but here is a suggestion that might help: Model them like hands laying on the ground and I think with a few adjustments they will look good.

I don't see what the problem that people have with HMV's feet. Just because we haven't seen anything in this thread other than small clawed, animal-like feet doesn't mean that he can't sculpt anything else. I mean, maybe he can, maybe he can't - but just because there are no examples of it in this thread isn't evidence that he can't do it.

He said he tried but was not satisfied with the outcome and I just do not give up trying to convincing him .

Symbio Joe wrote:Dude I do not know what your problem with feet is but here is a suggestion that might help: Model them like hands laying on the ground and I think with a few adjustments they will look good.

I'm a fetishist. My girlfiend goes around the house barefoot and I go nuts.

Anyway, Matchstick Man says hello

The new piece is looking good so far. A ghoul? or another vamp?

What sort of art background do you have? Or is that eye for anatomy just from pictures?

Well, most academical background comes from looking at lots of pictures so you might say there's no difference

But in reality I have no formal art training, just a bit of talent and lots of work to do...

Did you know a Stigany vampire will be the next California governor?

RIPPED

Like I said on WS, good to see you again HMV. Is this another (particularly jacked) vampire commission?

- Salvage

Double Post

I don't think I've ever seen an amateur sculpter with anything approaching your grasp of anatomy and proportions. Amazing work. The only improvement I might suggest is that you could try and attempt reproportionalizing (not a word I know) the muscle structure based on the pose. For example, making the abdominal muscles on the less hunched side of the third vampire slightly less prominent as they would be under less stress.

good lord that musculature is pristine.

as for the hands vs feet debate, the hands are so big and the feet so small that it does really throw it off for me.

however, having said that, I couldn't sculpt one hand like that let alone 2 and the rest of the model, so cudos to you and well done mate.

HMV, do you have a site where you take commissions? If not, what do you usually charge?

His Master's Voice wrote:Did you know a Stigany vampire will be the next California governor?

"Are j00 sarah connah?"

I would vote for him. Great detail work.

Excellent!! This is such a treat to follow.

What sculpting medium are you using? and why is it different color all the time

The big guy is made out of Fimo. The same stuff that Rackham sculptors use. The grey one is Pro Create and the brown ones are made out of (surprise) Brown Stuff.

Hey Boss... or HMV... linky-link to the minotaurs your alluding too? The work on this sculpt (which is absolutely amazing) makes me insist on seeing the other models alluded to...

EDIT: Nevermind... shoulda finished the thead first...

Wow, this looks really spectacular so far; I wish my sculpting skills were half as good.