Just a quick post to let folks know this here is going to be my PM blog for my various green stuff sculpting projects. Cheers!

You really sculpted all of that..? o_ô

Yep. Sure did

I usually sculpt several figures at a time, for basically the same reason you'd paint several figures; while you wait for the paint/green stuff to dry on one, you work on another.

For whatever reason female space marines seems to be a controversial subject among40k players.

If you feel the need to rant and argue for or against female space marines, please go elsewhere to have your debate; I do not want this post to deteriorate into a pointless discussion

I am well aware of why female marines aren't possible according to the fluff. I started this project as an exercise in design and to practice my sculpting. I chose the subject matter because it seemed both challenging and intriguing to me personally.

Besides, I've been promising my friend that I'd sculpt a unit of female marines for years now

So much for my preamble, here my work in progress so far.

you have superb sculpting skills!

Along with the narrower shoulder width and the higher waistline, they have noticeably feminine breasts on their chest armor to accentuate the female form. They are exaggerated on purpose to make them visually easier to distinguish from the male marines. While it's arguable whether it has any practical merit or not, from a character design standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to me to design a female character in a sci-fi fantasy setting if they are going to look just like their male counterparts.

If you think sculpted breasts on chest plates are ridiculous, I'd like to point out that the Blood Angels' Sanguinary Guards has sculpted pecs and decorative nipples on their breastplate

I have a few clean up to do before I begin casting. I plan on completing a combat squad of female space marines using these. Though I doubt I'll ever actually use them for gaming.

I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed working on them.

You sir, or madame have mad sculpting skills! Nice work. I do remember many years ago that GW experimented with metal minis of female marines but dropped that idea.

This is good work. very nice.

Wow. Fantastic sculpting. I like the female marines. Women can kick a$$ too ya know.

I like them. Nice and subtle curves. And they look exactly like marine at the same time. I wouldn't mind about the fluff, when you can do these. I think I see a shark on one of the shoulderpads is there more detailing to come?

WOW! pretty good! this is a really amazing space marine girl squad! i'll hope you make more of them!

They are awsome!
Would you ever consider selling them? I'll take a squad.

i really like them. question tho, did you invest the time to mnake them truescale while you where at them?
i think you did an excellent job on these females and i look forward to whatever you will do next for thes fabulous female marines. will you do the hnor and paint them or will this part be of your friends pleasure?

vik

So you went for the Space Sharks?

Again, crazy skills, they look like real GW products

Are you by any chance a professional sculptor?

You should get in contact with Chapterhouse, they may be interested in something like this, even if just the faces. Look rad!

Agreed. I think up until know the problem with female marine models has been the believability of them. These sculpts change that I think.

Definitely get in touch with Chapterhouse, if the guys over there think the project has legs and if there are no infringements i'm sure they'll help you out.

Hips look a tad narrow but otherwise the proportions look pretty good.
Would like to see you try some other poses than the marine on a surf board/horse posture. (Leave that to GW to do )

Apart from that would echo everyones' comments and look forward to seeing more!

Yeah, Im loving it, its such a simple idea really, but I can see lots of players wanting it.

Id love to talk to you about hiring you to work for us on either some select pieces or in a larger role.

Funny, Ive had 2 concept artist/graphic desiginers pop up in the last 2 weeks and Id love to work with another sculptor as well!

Shoot me a email at nick@chapterhousestudios.com

to chapterhouse:

I thought you might want to see previous shoulder pads that this guy sculpted:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/344384.page

Kinda blew my mind, so wanted to share

Hope Space Corsair doesn't mind too much with everyone trying to make him work more ^^'

Thanks for all the kind compliments!

Wazzdig Dagga,
The pad with the shark was from another post. I still have some more detailing to do but the basic figure is done. I'll add on the aquila and other decorations once I cast a few of the base bodies for variety.

Capt. Rex,
Maybe if I actually figure out how to get them cast

Viktor von Domm,
Sorry, they are not true scale. I actually had to scale them down and change the proportions to make them fit the GW 28mm scale, since they were initially too big. I'll be painting them myself as well but it'll be my friends painted pics that I'll be posting since he's a better painter than me

Mikalichov
Nope, I'm going with the Exorcists instead of the Sharks. Thanks, but I'm not a pro yet

Chibi Bodge-Battle
I prefer my muscular women with narrow hips and I love the surfboard pose; it's so GW! I'll try to do a more dynamic pose next time for my Eldar.

whalemusic360, Lennysmash and Chapterhouse,
I shot an email to Chapterhouse. I'm looking forward to talking to them.

Thanks again everyone for your interest. I'll try to keep busy and post often.

Cheers!

Very nicely done indeed!

Very impressive!

I dropped Nic a PM on here, which is why he materialized. Hope you can start a good relationship and provide us with more kickin bits and conversions!

Space Corsair wrote:Thanks for all the kind compliments!

Mikalichov
Nope, I'm going with the Exorcists instead of the Sharks. Thanks, but I'm not a pro yet

Aren't these sharks on the shoulderpads?

Oh, and I like "Mikalichov", for an IG commander it sounds really good

first i was like :( then i was like

Work in progress update.

Additional pics are on my blog:

http://battlesuits.blogspot.com/

Here's a pic of my wireframe. Behind it you can see two of my earlier sculpting work.

See if you can recognize who the characters are supposed to be

They were done using some epoxy resin that was dried harder and finer than green stuff. It was over a decade ago and I have no idea what the stuff was called anymore and haven't been able to find it since

Oh, how I wish we could swap hands! Your greenstuff work is truly amazing. Keep up the great work!

I have had the damnedest time with modeling proportional breasts (and, for that matter, whole female torsos, I suppose) on my Sister Bikers. Do you have any suggestions? All I get are a pair of unhealthy blobs, whereas yours just seem to be, well, breasts!

A little suggestion: if you sculpt the body, don't use SM arm, the proportion don't fit very well. anyway, this is my impression.

Space Corsair wrote:Here's a pic of my wireframe. Behind it you can see two of my earlier sculpting work.

See if you can recognize who the characters are supposed to be

They were done using some epoxy resin that was dried harder and finer than green stuff. It was over a decade ago and I have no idea what the stuff was called anymore and haven't been able to find it since

OMG! Priss from Bubblegum Crisis! love it! and your Priss is amazing, well done!

Space Corsair wrote:If you think sculpted breasts on chest plates are ridiculous, I'd like to point out that the Blood Angels' Sanguinary Guards has sculpted pecs and decorative nipples on their breastplate

I do think sculpted breasts on chest plates are ridiculous. That said, I think you are the first person I've ever seen make them look not-ridiculous.

You've really done a fabulous job. Most female space marines end up looking like they've stapled a pair of rocket nose cones to the outside of the armour. You are the first person I've ever seen sculpt their chest plates to fit the proportions of the person inside (even if that's not technically nessecary), rather than trying to make them look like bizarrely-proportioned 3+ save spandex. Well done. Your models look feminine without looking like pin-ups or cosplaying cheerleaders, another balance that it seems a lot of sculptors struggle to achieve. I like your models using normal power-armour arms because it further accentuates the smaller frame of the person inside.

I don't play space marines, but I think your bits that you've sculpted yourself really do deserve to be cast and sold. This kind of quality deserves to make a profit.

Beautiful sculpts no doubt!

However, I don't believe a female space marine would look very female at all with all the muscles she probably would have. That is partly because you gotta have a lot of testosterone to effectively build muscles and that will slow the female forms. Just google "female bodybuilders" and bear in in mind that breast implants is quite common amongst these ladies. So in that sense I believe that female marines would look just like their male counterparts except for their faces, and I don't believe they would bother to accentuate their femininity with surgery, it would be impractical to mention one reason and space marines are killing machines first and foremost.

That said, you don't have to be realistic about everything, they are beautiful sculpts anyhow!

More good stuff! Not a fan of the GW legs on your torso though, looks like they have a big butt.

Great sculpts!

Was it a WIP female CSM I saw above?

This thread is very promising, and I will keep an eye on it.

Thanks for the encouraging words; it keeps me motivated and productive.

Mikalichou,
Sorry for the misspelling. It does sound like a good name for an IG commander though
Sazabi is one of my favorite robot designs; I wish the Tau battlesuits looked more like Zeon mobile suits such as Sazabi and Kampfer.

ReardenPro,
Don't know if this helps at all but: I start with placing a single sausage shaped greenstuff sideways across the chest, then depress the center of it with a sculpting tool to create the cleavage between the two breasts. Then I shape each side into a mound for each of the breasts, while removing excess green stuff as necessary from the edges, until I get the general size and shape I want. From there I shape each breast further by pressing in with a sculpting tool to define the side and the bottom undercut of the breast, followed by smoothing.


FantasyBob,
Yep! It's Priss

But can anyone guess who the little pistol packing critter is beside her?

JOHIRA,
If I ever find the time to figure out how to cast them, I might try selling them.

c0un7_z3ro,
Yep, we don't have to be realistic about everything; we are talking about Space Marines after all

whalemusic360,
Yeah, I'm not going to be using the GW legs. Thanks for getting in touch with Nick; he's keeping me busy

Hyenajoe,
I actually started the female Chaos Marine first but got side tracked. I'll get back to her soon.

W.I.P. update on the Space Elf Lady Ninja a.k.a. Female Eldar Exarch

OMG! Amazing!
really, man, i really like your work! hope more update coming soon!

Wow! You are pro! I am really impressed. You should sculpt for GW or at least some other mini making company.

I think I'm done. I'm rather pleased by how well the pose turned out.

It took me longer to get the weapon options done than the main figure itself :(

More pics on my blog: http://battlesuits.blogspot.com/

Just plain awesome...

Wow, great work! She looks awesome, that's a model I would want to buy, given I played eldar!

Love it! an amazing work! and the body seems well balanced! 10+

How long have you been scuplting for? Any arts background or work experience?

Just wondering really, because those are plain awesome, and I'm hoping it's not going to take me another decade or so before I move beyond in situ sculpts to scratch sculpts.

Massive win points for you sir.

I'll take 20 of everything! just plain Awesome matey well done well done indeed!

Can't wait to see more.

Wow...awesome! Cast it!

Thanks for the encouraging words.

I still haven't had time to learn how to cast.

The Space Elf Lady Ninja is for Chapterhouse Studio and should be available for purchase once it goes into production.

Phayse,

I sculpted miniatures in my youth for a year or so as a hobby and then moved onto other distractions.

I'm a self taught artist with no formal art training. I have worked professionally as a 3d computer game artist for a decade before moving on to management.

I missed doing art by hand (there's just something very satisfying about being able to hold your work in your hands) and decided to get back into sculpting miniatures about 6 months ago.

I'm still learning from my mistakes as I go along and getting used to working with green stuff.

If you want to scratch sculpt, you should just dive in and go for it

Test shots for the wip female space marines with the separate torso and leg components.

My word
A space marine that doesn't looks like the bolter should be replaced with a guitar.
Please take note GW goodly SM legs

Impressive as ever Space Corsair.
The cuirass is nicely done with subtle curves.

The only thing is the right thigh is perpendicular from some angles but I love the energy of the poses, and the one with bolter is especially good imho
Looks like they have just jumped down from something and are about to spring forward.


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ps you work at a fair old lick mate.

I've got to get me one of those space elf niinjas.

I think you're right. The only way to get good at something is to for it. I've got some formal training ( failed to use my degree to do anything productive thus far!) but haven't really studied sculpture in any detail.

The fact you're self taught is something I find a lot of solace in - it means there's no reason I can't learn!

Man, these are amazing!!!!! I've never seen such good modeling skills!!!!

Yikes, it's been over a month since my last post.

I've been busy with real life. Yeah yeah, I know it's no excuse

I'll do some proper update tomorrow with what little I've managed to get done over the last month.

For now, here's quick rough concept sketch I did for Chapterhouse for the Manshee project I've just started. The design is still pending approval and I'm sure it will change as I translate the 2d concept into an actual 3d sculpt that works visually on the tabletop.

Really nice work on the Space Marine! One thing I still wish for is a female warface. Though the one currently on the mini looks great it doesn't express much, it's expression is rather calm compared to most male minis. In my experience It's quite rare to find human female faces that expresses emotion let alone ferocity. But still, great work, looks really good!

My first miniature cast in metal!

Start of Howling Hounds a.k.a. Manshee

Start of my art scale counts as Shrike for my Exorcists army. Yes, I'm still working on them as time permits, which isn't much

Progress on my witch hunter model and the female assault marine bodies:

W.I.P. update: Howling Hounds

New project: Female Guards

Exorcists icons

Consider me subscribed! Been a fan of the Manshees ever since I saw them on CHS' site, and the Exarch is STUNNING! If you ever make Chaos or tau components, then you cant count me as first in line on ordering them! XD

Really nice work you have here.

Fantastic female Eldar Exarch and congratulations on the cast as well.
You have really managed to make a model that is nicelly balanced with all of the different weapon layouts.
Perhaps she holds the double-handed sword a bit to far from her body, unbalancing her a bit, but it could be the picture lying.

This is incredible stuff!!
Makes me want to get Striking scorpions so i can use the exarch you made
Keep it up

Im blown away. Simply amazing. How long would you say it takes for you to complete something like the Female scorp or the manshee?

Wow, amazing!

just a thing......don't use 40k arms for the lady, they don't fit on female body!

Wow, impressive as ever!!!

I'm not really sold on the Manshees, though it's only a personal point of view : the execution (and drawing) so far are awesome!

I'm also glad you didn't get the usual "anti-female, fluff-puritanist nazi" flak at your female Space Marines, for they really are awesome (too)!!!

I may have overlooked it when (quickly) re-reading the thread, but would there be any chance that you'll cast them for sale?

Amazing sculpting, I like the Scorpion the best so far.

damn man i am jelious of your skills, what is on sale atm with chapters house cause may want it to paint and maybe give to a a friend. The eldar female castone specificly?

Longtime lurker - i just registered to congratulate you on those great female marine sculpts!

They're incredible, much better than any aproach i have seen up to now! Comps!

Thanks for the kind words.

It takes me anywhere from a couple weeks to a month to complete a figure depending on complexity of the design and how much real life intrudes on my hobby time

The female scorpion champ took me a week for the figure except the arms and weapons; the arms and weapons configurations took me 2 weeks :(

That's why I prefer to use to use 40k arms and weapons whenever possible

Kepora,

Let me know if you what you have in mind for Chaos and Tau components. I do have some ideas on the back burner for Chaos(female marines) and Tau(battle suits) that I'll get to eventually.

Battlesuit parts are ALWAYS good, give something to compete with Forgeworld for my dollars! I have a lot of Robert Cirillo's concept art (he came up with MANY of the designs you now see commonly in the Tau army), and some of the heads, torsos, etc. are just far too cool concepts to simply pass up.

Here's some of the pics, I'll upload more later:




I LOVE how he captured the manga influence while at the same time making them, well...original, unique, alien! GW's sculpting/design team obviously couldn't do his work justice at the time; I guess we'll see what they can do after the Finecast switch adn the Dark Eldar work, huh?

Really nice concept!

More Tau art, Chaos to come soon:







I'll post more later when Photobucket decides to stop being a squiggoth's ass.

I think your female IG are great, but honestly the arms are too big for the sculpts. You may honestly just need too sculpt the arms too them too.

Empchild,

Yeah, I probably should sculpt my own set of arms. But since it's just my own personal project, as long as I can live with them, I can just leave them for now

Kepora,

Thanks for posting the Roberto Cirillo's concept arts for the Tau. Those are really cool. They have that uniquely 'Western' mecha design that's a refreshing alternative to the usual Japanese mecha designs. I love the robot designs for Transformer movies !

I wonder why GW hasn't used those designs for the Tau as a product? If they had, I wouldn't bother trying to come up with my own replacement for the current crisis suit.

I just hope when they update the codex, they will release a new battlesuit to replace the current one. The newer FW suits are sweet but are too pricey for me to build an army with.

I was planning on doing a design based more off the Appleseed Landmate design/configuration with the pilot's leg encased in the thigh armor, like it was described in the Fire Warrior 40k novel.

My initial design criteria for this unit is:

- The design needs to have more 'organic' flowing lines and curves like the Tau vehicles.

- The suit should have elements that makes you think of a samurai to go along with the fire warriors' ashigaru feel.

- A more 'Western' robot design aesthetics, as in the Transformers the Movie/ District 9, rather than my usual Japanese anime/Gundam mecha designs.

Given the fact that Tau are only like 4-5 feet tall and battlesuits are rough;y the same size as Dreadnoughts...I was never a big fan of the "legs within the battlesuit's legs" design. The best proposed method I found was that the pilot gets inside and is tucked away in an almos tfetal position, a screen moving in to cover the eyes and such while they "plug in" to the suit via a neural uplink-basically, the battlsuit's body becomes the Tau's body.



For Chaos, here's a Nurgle Dreadnought concept by Genocidalpenguin from Deviantart;



A Slaanesh Chaos Marine by SDGRAPHICS, also from DA;



A (sadly) unaccredited possessed;



And lastly (for now), a Night Lords champion by warp_zero from Deviantart;



More to come as I find/upload it!

Man, the pilot inside the tau battlsuit have really small space!

FantasyBob wrote:Man, the pilot inside the tau battlsuit have really small space!

Makes it harder to hit them, and makes room for more important stuff!

Here's my rough concept for a battle suit. As usual I'll probably make changes to the design as I work on the sculpt, but it's good enough as a starting point for now.

I'm probably going to sculpt these digitally on a 3D program (either Maya or 3ds max) in a month or two. I'll be posting the progress on a separate post since this one is supposed to be for my 'green stuff'

I like the beefed up look of them but not keen on their thighs
You will need to adjust the inner part else they would keep bashing when the chap walks imho

Those tau are way more macho! Nice!

Although i second the upper thigh being to big, he wouldn't be able to swing his arms as he walks, the one on the right looks great though!

Nice Armored Core look on the right fella; incorporate more smoothed areas, horizontal panel lines (BIG in Tau!), and not TOO much exposed mechanical stuff and you'll be good. Also, try to make the feet a tad more hoof-like; shorter shins and longer feet, like Tau legs.

Another rough concept for a battle suit.

This last one looks like a mix of Tau battle suit and a zaku from Gundam!

Damn dude, did you draw that?! If you could make the head look more like one of the Forgeworld heads, then consider me sold! Also, might want to make the middle of the chest protrude a tad more; just something I like about XV9s and some battlesuit conversions I've seen.

I uploaded MANY new pictures to the photobucket gallery-far too many to post here! You can check out the whole thing here, but here's a couple of the top pieces:






If ya see anythign that ya REALLY like, let me know and I'll see if I can get you the original artist!

You know, if you took Awsome and poured sauce on it, this is about what you would get. Btw, can i buy that exarch?

Kepora,

Thanks for the link! The gallery is a treasure trove of awesome inspirations

Here's a Tau battlesuit I drew up as a design study. I gave it sort of a toon shading for my own amusement.

I'm starting to think the problem isn't the design but rather the execution of it into an actual model. The original design is starting to grow on me

I know, right? there's just a charm to it's unique simplicity-though the Forgeworld parts are great, too You're really good at drawing mechanical stuff, btw; major props form my sister and I! (she has a HELL of a time drawing machinery)

And no prob, man! That's a good chunk of my 40k art stash, and I plan to add more soon; I'll let you know when I add more!

Well, your feet are much better then GW's.

Simply beautiful- love the Scorpion Exarch, and will be picking up one after various projects are completed.

Also love the revised Tau Suits- The ones designed by GW were not executed well at all, but your designs look fantastic (especially since I'm a fan of Armored Core as well). Here's hoping they get pushed into production!

Keep up the great work!

-Remi

Fluff issues aside, those SM sculpts are interesting and look very cool, and that Striking Scorpion is quite simply amazing. Can't wait to see more

WOW!!!! Thats fantastic!!!

When those female marines reach chapter house, specially the assault ones, i will finally make my assault marines chapter. You just finally give me what i wanted o.O, i only could say Thank you, and "cast those damned things, so i can pay you for them!!!"

Wow, awesome stuff here. Big fan of the new CH mini. Glad I was pointed to this thread, looking forward to more stuff!

Absolutely love everything in this thread. Hope you could sell the female space marines to chapterhouse so I could buy'em! Also the female guard! And the heavygear/tau battlesuits are exactly what I want them to be. Don't like the fw suits at all and the gw are only decent. I'll subscribe to this thread to see more awesome stuff

Thats all I have to say.

I've been busy dealing with RL and spending most of my sculpting time working on the Hell Hounds a.k.a. Manshees.

But I did manage to get a few things done while I was at it.

First of all is a set of Exorcists chapter icons. These are for a joint project with Mike Youtz, a talented mold maker and resin caster; I sculpt them and he casts them up for use on our armies

I sculpted the jetbike rider's leg and the arms for Chapterhouse. The jetbike was designed and created by another artist; I just sculpted the legs and arms of the rider.

Started working on the battlesuit in between waiting for the greens to dry.

Yeah, I know I said I was going to do this using CAD but I'm not happy with the current quality of 3d prints I've seen.

Besides it's much more satisfying to sculpt it by hand

I wanted to have some helmeted heads for my female marines and came to the realization that the standard heads are too large to work on these smaller bodies.

So I sculpted up a few helmeted heads to fit the body proportions better.

Progress update on the art scale counts as Shrike sculpt.

I'm using the lighting claws from the Space Wolves Terminators.

I might have to try using the smaller beakie helm I sculpted for the female space marine to give it a more art scale look.

Your works are allways amazing! Are you planning some work on tau too!?

Absolutely stunning sculpting by you! Especially the Exorcists icons and the female Marines!

Very much, very good work!

Sculpture magnificent!

Dmitry.

It will be nice if one day you gonna work on a restyle of the SoB.....i think you can do an amazing work!

p.s. i had see now the begin of your tau battlesuit: isn't the up body to small!?

Uhm, damn, that's great stuff!

How many steps or greenstuff layers do you usually use for, let's say, a space marine torso?
Would be really interesting since I'm playing arround with greenstuff myself right now.

Thanks for the kind words!

IPS,

It takes me about 5 to 10 layers or steps for a space marine torso.

The first layer is to cover the wireframe, the second to roughly define the skeletal frame for the body and then several more layers to build up a base musculature before laying on the final surfaces.

Depending on the model it can take even more layers as I build up the model though.

FantasyBob,

Yep , couldn't wait to get started on the battlesuit. Hopefully it'll be ready before they release a new codex for the Tau

The body is too small; it's still just the base framework for now. It'll get bigger as I go along and add more layers to build it up.

Sorry about the poor picture quality; I had to take the pics at night by lamp light since there wasn't enough sunlight today

Any chance you'll be selling a few of the Inquisition icons? Very much interested in a few sets. Other things looking great too!

Awesome Manchees. Almost cool enough for me to start an eldar army. Maybe cool enough to make me start a small one. Really well done.

Thanks ; )

Nice models again, all those little details.
The helmets look a bit strange however, so... wolf like.^^

I. WANT. TO. SCULPT. LIKE. THAT.

Sorry for caps, but I really want to learn how to sculpt things from the 0 point as you do. Is it possible to learn without special education? Some guides maybe?

o.O

As always you are just incredible...

Im so glad to know that some of your work will eventually turn into real products... but i really get sad when i realize those space marines girls will not :(

The helmets are wolf like on purpose

The Howling Hounds concept was inspired by the spectral 'Hounds of Anwwn' of Welsh Myth and the ghostly "Black Dogs" of British folklore as well as other Celtic and Norse legends.

Cwn Annwn, 'Hounds of Annwn'
Cwn Mamau, 'Hounds of the Mothers', led by the horrifying hag Mallt-Y-Nos 'Matilda of the Night'
Herne the Hunter's hounds
The Wild Hunt
Gwyllgi, 'Dog of Darkness'
Barghest

I thought that they were appropriate source materials for an Elf based race

Storag,

I'm a self taught artist; all it takes is determination and dedication to improving your art skills

Though if you have the opportunity, I'd highly recommend going to a good art school or even just taking a few art classes. I still have a lot to learn and plan on taking a few classes myself when I get the chance.

whalemusic360,

PM me and I'll see what I can do for ya. They are not going to be cast until next month sometime though.

Consider me subscribed!! Awesome job!!

Wow everything in this blog is excellent, Will you be casting the female assault marine parts?

These are Amazing...

Skillz man, ye got'em!

You do a very good job feminizing the armor while still making them fearsome and the armor looks appropriate for them and im not just saying that cause i like bewbs.

Whats a brotha gotta do to get one of these? lol

Not that I'm adding anything new, but the sculpts are amazing! I hope things are going well with Chapterhouse! Every hobbyists dream is to make a living off of doing what they love

Keep up the great work!

the female eldar exarch is epic if you have multiple cast i am seriously interested in buying one

epic sculpts

I am truly impressed Space Corsair. I have been delving into green stuff a lot here lately and I have seen a huge improvement in my abilities from practice. However I want to be better, I know its a a lot to ask be when you have some down time would you check out my blog and give me some feedback. I have a Tyranid wing WiP and a Tyranid Swarmlord on right now, both are multiple posts. I actually have both projects going at once because I quickly figured out the importance of layers and having to wait for GS to cure.

Wings WiP post http://warfrog.blogspot.com/2011/10/custom-hive-tyrant-wings-feedback.html 5 total posts on this one so far.

SwarmLord WiP post http://warfrog.blogspot.com/2011/10/wip-tyranid-swarmlord.html

I appreciate honest feedback and tips/pointers.

I love the work you have had go into production with CHS and look forward to more.

Thanks for the supportive and encouraging words. It really helps me stay motivated to keep going.

GiraffeX, FreebootaXIII,

I'll be starting on casting the female marine models soon. With any luck I'll have some ready in time for the Holidays

tyranids?

Chapterhouse Studio has the epic female space elf for sale here:

http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/component/virtuemart/?page=shop.product_details&category_id=36&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=129

theunicorn,

You have a great blog there; the articles on casting were especially useful for me. I'm impressed by your accomplishments with mold making and casting

Looks like you are making good progress delving into green stuff. I honesty don't have any useful tips or pointers for you right now. But I'll keep checking out your site and let you know if I have anything constructive to offer.

Cheers!

Exalted. Definitely keeping and eye on this thread, love your stuff!!

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season full of good cheer, food and gaming!

I failed to update my blog during the last couple months. I blame my lack of updates to our adoption of a dog from the pounds in November and the Holidays in December

Anyways, I did somehow manage to make some progress during that time.

The most notable of which is my first attempt at mold making and resin casting.

While it wasn't really successful, I feel that it was a worthwhile learning experience

You can read more about it here if you are interested:

http://battlesuits.blogspot.com/

Having learned from my mistakes from casting the figures, I had more success with these shoulder pads.

There were a couple air bubbles but nothing fatal; I was rather happy with the resulting casts overall.

Not bad for a first try! Do you have a vacuum pot to put it in while the resin cures?

That looks to be a fast curing resin, if so a vacuum pot would probably cause problems. When you vacuum resin it boils and expands if the resin has a fast cure time it ends curing while degassing and that leaves you with pieces that full of voids (like swiss cheese).

I would recommend a Vacuum chamber on the next silicon mold you make to remove those small air bubbles, and If you can try casting the resin under pressure.

Kepora,

Nope, I don't have a vacuum chamber; I was hoping I could get a decent result without one

the unicorn,

I'm using a fast curing resin, the Smooth-Cast 300 that comes with the starter kit from Smooth-on.

Thanks for the warning about the fast curing resin under vacuum.

You mentioned on your blog that you use the Smooth-Cast 305 right? Do you use that with a vacuum chamber?


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This was mainly an exercise for me to get a better grasp of what I need to consider for molding and casting purposes when designing my miniatures.

But there's something really awesome about being able to replicate your work so I might be playing around with it a bit more.

If I do decide to pursue it more seriously I'll get a vacuum pump and chamber set up as you guys recommended.

Space Corsair wrote:Kepora,

Nope, I don't have a vacuum chamber; I was hoping I could get a decent result without one

the unicorn,

I'm using a fast curing resin, the Smooth-Cast 300 that comes with the starter kit from Smooth-on.

Thanks for the warning about the fast curing resin under vacuum.

You mentioned on your blog that you use the Smooth-Cast 305 right? Do you use that with a vacuum chamber?


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This was mainly an exercise for me to get a better grasp of what I need to consider for molding and casting purposes when designing my miniatures.

But there's something really awesome about being able to replicate your work so I might be playing around with it a bit more.

If I do decide to pursue it more seriously I'll get a vacuum pump and chamber set up as you guys recommended.

Either way I wish you luck! You might wanna talk to people like Paulson Games (whom has his own site, www.paulsongames.com ) and Mangozac over at Resin Addict!

Late to the party, but wow! Your work is great!

Should it become available I would be very interested in getting some squads from you.

You're not too late for the party 'til it's over and I'm just getting started

Kepora,

Thanks for letting me know about Paulson Games site and Mangozac's Resin Addict forum; they are an awesome resource for mold making and casting

Swords and the triskele for the merry band of manshees:

why are you not GWs head sculptor? haha these are amazing

Mantle wrote:why are you not GWs head sculptor? haha these are amazing

Nooo....they woudl suck all the talent out of him and tell him to make his sculpts the "GW" way...akak ugly! lol
the question should be, "why can't GW sculpt like you?"
Keep doing what your doing!

Here are pics of the Exorcists shoulder pads and icons cast in resin by Coyotius; he's casting them for me in exchange for his own personal use

I'm so glad he's taking care of the mold making and casting for this project. The quality of his cast is so much better than what I'm capable of.

The casts look so much better in grey than as greens.

I can't wait to get my hands on them so I can start working on my Exorcists army at last!

Thanks Coyotius!!

love these, let me know if you ever need a website with shopping cart if you ever want to sell your models

Woo, nice! Yes, I am waiting for these as well....Love the work you have done so far!
Please don't die on me before finishing them!!!!

Love those new items

Those is sweets! Came out really well

Okay, you totally gotta start sending some of your stuff to CHS.

Kepora wrote:Okay, you totally gotta start sending some of your stuff to CHS.

Why do that when he can sell it himself?

Didn't know these were posted!

Almost done casting the sets. If we decided to do more I think I'll make multiple molds next time...slow going with just one set.

Your work is great, the cast look good even through you didn't much like them. Keep up the good work and up date often

theunicorn wrote:

Kepora wrote:Okay, you totally gotta start sending some of your stuff to CHS.

Why do that when he can sell it himself?

It'd be easier for people to find, and expose his stuff to whole new crowds?

Coyotius tells me that my portion of the Exorcists castings are on their way!

Got to get my other projects finished up so I can make time to start working on my Exorcists

The only stuff I'm working on currently for Chapterhouse is the merry band of manshees. They've taken more time than I originally anticipated though; mostly due to the fact we adopted/rescued a dog from the pound and he's been eating up most of my time

Here's the latest pic of one of the Howling Hounds holding aloft his newly acquired sword. He's also sporting his new manly belt

I replicated the swords by using a press mold that I created from Quick-Sil, a 2 part RTV jewelry molding rubber. It's easy to use and gets great results.

I made 8 castings for each side of the four swords, filed down the back and then stuck them together using brown stuff.

Now all they need is the pistol for the other hand. I plan on making a two-sided press mold and casting it in brown stuff again once the sculpting is done.

The sword for the Pack leader's single edged blade is asymmetrical, so I'm going to have to do it the old fashion way and sculpt the other side by hand.

Wow they look awesome. They have such a feeling of fluidity and motion.

Yes, those are looking really, really good. Great sculpts.

I can't wait for those to be released on chapterhouse. They will fit into the craftworld altansar project nicely.

Thanks for the kind words.

M0rdain,

Thank you for the well phrased compliment.; you seriously made my day

seapheonix,

I'm trying hard to get these guys done. I'm hoping to finish sculpting them by the end of this month so I can ship them off to Chapterhouse. I sincerely apologize for the delay; I should of finished sculpting them months ago

Knowing that there are folks out there who are looking forward to these figures makes the time and effort I invest all worthwhile. Thanks!

Here are the pistols for the manshees.

I made a press mold again for these. My attempt at making a 2 part press mold for them didn't pan out so I need to sculpt the other side by hand. It's still much easier than having to sculpt each one from scratch.

I know there were scale issues with the Scorpion Priestess. So this time I tried harder to keep the size of these figures more compatible with the current range of 28mm figures.

Here are some pics to show size comparison for them that will hopefully alleviate those concerns.

Looking fantastic

Current state of the Hounds. Just need to add weapons and some clean up.

The 'exarch' looks positively BA, I really really like the back armor sculpt. It's amazing. One day I'll be sitting down to paint this guy, and it shall be thanks to you. Wicked talent chief.

They are great models, your sculpting skill is insanely good.

I can't wait to order up a whack of those.

When they are done i will have to get my buddy a set, and really love that exacrh

Thank you all for your encouraging words

One of my blog readers asked for a size comparison of my female marines after seeing Jacqualine47's superb first castings, so I thought I'd post them here as well.

The art-scaled bodies are shown with the normal heads and the smaller heads sculpted for the female marines; I think the smaller heads helps give it a more art-scaled look. They are also sized to still fit onto the standard 25mm bases rather than the larger termie bases.

Speaking of Jacqualine47's superb castings, I just realized I haven't posted them here yet

They look fantastic!

You have my overwhelming envy and admiration.

Excellent! Beautiful! I love the Manshees, very impressive sculpting!

Do you know what silicone and resin the caster in that last pic was using? I've been contemplating picking up some more "professional" materials that the putty and resin I get from the craft store.

Holy Crap nice!

The female marine casts are looking very nice.

Gavin Thorne wrote:Excellent! Beautiful! I love the Manshees, very impressive sculpting!

Do you know what silicone and resin the caster in that last pic was using? I've been contemplating picking up some more "professional" materials that the putty and resin I get from the craft store.

I sent you a PM about it.

theunicorn wrote:

Gavin Thorne wrote:Excellent! Beautiful! I love the Manshees, very impressive sculpting!

Do you know what silicone and resin the caster in that last pic was using? I've been contemplating picking up some more "professional" materials that the putty and resin I get from the craft store.

I sent you a PM about it.

would it be possible to have this information too

Overflowing with mega-win. You were born to do this.

Keep up the great work--You'll have no problem finding enough buyers for your work!

theunicorn, trocar101,

I did send her an e-mail asking about what silicone and resin she uses but she's off on vacation.

Brushfire,

Thanks! I've been considering doing this professionally. But I need to get a lot faster for that to be viable though

I use Smooth-On products - specifically mold-max 30, smooth-cast 305, Mann Release 300 spray... and Johnson+Johnson baby powder. The pressure pots are Harbor Freight with modifications.

jacqualine47 wrote:I use Smooth-On products - specifically mold-max 30, smooth-cast 305, Mann Release 300 spray... and Johnson+Johnson baby powder. The pressure pots are Harbor Freight with modifications.

Pretty much the same thing here.

jacqualine47 wrote:I use Smooth-On products - specifically mold-max 30, smooth-cast 305, Mann Release 300 spray... and Johnson+Johnson baby powder. The pressure pots are Harbor Freight with modifications.

Absolutely perfect timing on this - I'm getting ready to cast my (very much more basic) female greatcoat guard torsos and was completely lost on their site. I'll give it a hard look and post the results on here later.

...I'm slowly building Caiaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th .

i love them, wow please tell me that you will eventually do kits

Absolutely fantastic sculpting work. Can't believe some of the detail you have managed to create.

Love the female and TS marines - look like I would expect them to if they were ever done by GW... except... well... actually good

Hey! Coyotius, the mold maker and caster extraordinaire and my partner on the Exorcists icons project, has posted pics of his Exorcists test paint using one of our sculpted shoulder pad:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/437615.page

It's really cool seeing how the pads look on a well painted model; you should go check it out

For those fellow Exorcists out there interested in getting your hands on some of these shoulder pads/icons for you own, you could try contacting coyotius. Maybe if you're real nice to him, you can talk him into casting up a set for you too

Absolutely. If there are any Exorcist players that want some pads or icons feel free to PM me. However, I'm a bit slow right now due to other obligations...until the summer.

They also make good librarian pads for those who don't play Exorcists.

I'd be interested in a few of the icons. Would work well for the librarian dedicated vehicles

@ whalemusic360: Just shoot me a PM and let me know which ones you'd be interested in...I'm assuming the ones with the =I= probably wouldn't be of use. I can post scale pics if you need me to...actually on pg 4 Space Corsair has the greens side by side...the =I= icons are roughly 1 to 1 1/8" high by 1" wide. That should give you a feel for the rest. The somewhat flat icons are/were intended for banners...our thoughts were that they could be heat shaped to conform to the wavvy surface, but thay could be used on anything really.

This is an outstanding thread

I have done some very basic work with greenstuff but really keen to develop the skills here

Thanks for posting and all the sharing here

Space Corsair wrote:Here's a pic of my wireframe. Behind it you can see two of my earlier sculpting work.

See if you can recognize who the characters are supposed to be



They were done using some epoxy resin that was dried harder and finer than green stuff. It was over a decade ago and I have no idea what the stuff was called anymore and haven't been able to find it since

To bring this back from Feb 2011, your picture here, included... my pal, and no one identified him! THAT rodent is the Pistol Packing Polaris Packrat from Buck Godot., with his pals Smith and Wesson. And if you got a spare.. I wanna talk!

-P

Amazing work OP.

Ding! Ding! Someone finally recognized the Pistol Packing Polaris Packrat

Thanks porkuslime, I was beginning to despair that no one would

For those young'uns who may not have read any of Phil Foglio's comics you should go check them out:

http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070123

*facepalm* THAT comic! I read that whole bit while waiting for Girl Genius to update one night.

I should have known that.

Hello,
Should you wish to sell some these female marines pm me, I would like some.

Regards,
Carl

Are there any good pictures of the Corsair's female Scorpion Exarch with other Eldar models for scale?

I am using my old-edition DE Incubi as Scorpion proxies for my Corsair army (they even have similar helm guns), and would love a good Exarch for them and I am eyeing her, but I heard about some sort of scaling issue?

So she's an Amazonian Space Elf

Yep, there was some scale creep while I was sculpting her

Additional issue is that the posing of her arms makes her take up more of the surrounding area around her which makes her seem even larger. She'd comfortably fit on a larger 40mm base with her weapons.

I was hoping that for a 'heroic' figure, a bit of exaggeration of size for a greater tabletop "presence" would be acceptable

You can try using the head and torso on a smaller leg. Here's an example of someone using the head and body for a corsair conversion:

http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=220035.0

There's a pic showing a pic of her next to the Scorpion Exarch in this review (towards the very bottom):

http://collegiatitanica.blogspot.com/2011/09/triple-review-chapterhouse-farseer.html

Cool, Space Corsair, thanks for the pics!

I really like her! I have never ordered from CH, but she may be my first. I hate that outside of Ebay, you can't get the individual Exarch's anymore, because I don't want any part of the Finecast squad packs. I'm especially not buying a whole squad when I already have 5-6 proxies.

Plus I love that she comes with all the options. Her squatting pose hides any kind of scale creep, IMHO, and is a cool heroic pose besides. if I get her and (eventually) put my army up in the Showcase, you'll definitely get a nod.

Those girls look great! They even seem to mix fairly well... the one lady-head on a regular marine body just looks like she's got a little room in there. The full sculpts are fantastic, and I would totally buy a squad or two and field a mixed force. They are clearly space marines, and meet wysiwyg IMO

Oh, yeah I forgot to chime in on the Female Space marines.

I love them! Very tastefully and cleanly done. It's a bit odd to see marines without the chest Aquila, but I'm alright with it. I could totally see even using them as a force of allied Sisters of Battle, if you don't like the style of the current line of SoB. Especially with some tabards and appropriate heraldry added, they would be ace.

I would totally buy them.

Space Corsair wrote:Here are pics of the Exorcists shoulder pads and icons cast in resin by Coyotius; he's casting them for me in exchange for his own personal use

I'm so glad he's taking care of the mold making and casting for this project. The quality of his cast is so much better than what I'm capable of.

The casts look so much better in grey than as greens.

I can't wait to get my hands on them so I can start working on my Exorcists army at last!

Thanks Coyotius!!

WANT! Where can I buy?

Lovely stuff Space Corsair, I'm not big on the whole femme marines shtick, but the sculpting is top notch.

I wonder, when you get time, could you post a tutorial on sculpting faces? It's something I've never been able to pull off despite wasting a solid kilo of GS trying; I learned all my other not-that-good GS skills from repeating tutorials by rote until I had it down, but there aren't any good guides out there for 28mm scale stuff that I could find.

I am a bit miffed you're going to beat me to Artscale Exorcists though, that's three of my four favourites down(Iron Hands, Exorcists, Alpha Legion), hopefully I can get some of my Star Phantoms done before I get pipped on them as well

chuckwilliams wrote:

WANT! Where can I buy?

Just shoot me a PM. I have extras already sitting around.

Thanks for the kind words folks. I always appreciate the morale boost

Ya, if any of you fellow Exorcists players out there want the icons, you should go directly to the source and contact coyotius

Yodhrin,

No need to be miffed, I'm not planning on doing an artscale Exorcist army anyways; I was planning on sculpting just the captains for my army in artscale

I'll see what I can do about doing a face sculpting tutorial when I have the time. In the meanwhile here's a couple tutorials that I found helpful.

Mandagore Miniatures has several very useful tutorials on sculpting figures. Check out the How to sculpt a 35mm Knight in particular.

http://mandragoreminiatures.free.fr/home.htm

Scibor has a nice tutorial on face sculpting too:

http://www.sciborminiatures.com/en_,sculpting.php?id=662

My only advice is practice and practice again, then practice some more. Yeah I know not very helpful is it?

Attached is a pic of some of the faces I sculpted for practice during the past year. These don't include the heads I sculpted for other figures like the female marines. There were more that got tossed during periodical cleaning of my work space as well.

The wall of faces is a touch creepy.

I seriously would love to see more work on the female Ig (would love to order them as well lol)

Honestly though, the work in this thread...is beyond gorgeous, just breathtaking.

I have begun trying to sculpt female faces recently too. I need more practice, but I love that wall! You should make it into some sort of chaos terrain or scenery!

Zuul wrote:The wall of faces is a touch creepy.

Second that... absolutely awesome sculpting though dude

Would be interesting to have all those faces on a Tzeentch rhino.

Ya, I guess the wall of faces is a touch creepy

You should see the heads mounted on poles I have as well:

Speaking of heads, here's a close up pic of the space marine heads cast up by Jacqualine47

The clean castings does a great job of showing off the sculpt. She did a wonderful job on these

Second from the right on the top row. I'd like a set of ten of those, please!

For those fellow gamers out there interested in getting your hands on some of these female marines for your own, Jacqualine47 has graciously offered to help in making them available to us.

It is thanks to her generous efforts that I can finally offer them to you. Thank you Jacqualine!

You can PM her directly for further details and instructions on how to get yours. Get them while you can

Currently the available kit consists of 5 female marines, one of each sculpt as shown in the pic below (one with torso/arms/legs, two with torso/legs, one separate legs/torso with plain breastplate, and one separate legs/torso with aquila -- plus five different un-helmeted head sculpts and five helmeted head sculpts that include two standard marine helmets, one company champion helmet, one beakie helmet, and one open-face helmet):

Looking very nice, pm has been sent to Jacqualine.

Cheers Space Corsair

WOOT!! Jayne and Gabs finally get some comrades!

I bought Jayne and Gabs with their blister labeled as "Space Marines" back in the day. A the memories...

I hope my lady marines are better looking then my recollections of them though; I recall them being ugly as sin out of the package

I should really sculpt my version of Jayne and Gabs as 'respect' for the original Female Adventurer in Power Armor

Wow female space marines, blasphemy but I want one :O


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Awesome 5 on the way!
I have to thank you for these awesome conversion pieces and for providing me with my Death Company xD

Death Company?! Awesome

I'll be looking forward to seeing them in dressed in Black

Why do those faces remind me about the wall of the faithless from forgotten realms?

W.I.P. pics of some additional legs for the female marines: kneeling pose legs and another assault pose legs that works with the current torsos.

And W.I.P. pics of female torso for scouts.

I tried to make it work with the standard scout legs to save time; I think it turned out pretty well

What do you think?

I'm liking the new sculpts, very nice

Great stuff!

Nearly done with the merry band of manshees a.k.a. Howling Hounds. This project has taken way longer than I had anticipated

But the end is now in sight and I'm rather pleased at what I manage to achieve with the wacky idea of doing a male version of the banshees

The pack was given their weapons and then their arms were removed to make them easier to cast. I kind of dread this part since the process of separating the arms from the body inevitably results in some damage to the figure; which then requires touch up sculpting. Fortunately there wasn't any serious mess to clean up this time.

Now I just need to finish off the arms for the Exarch's weapon variants and final touch ups. Then their off to Chapterhouse Studios and hopefully in your hands eventually

Those sculpts are amazing, awesome detail and design. Wish I had the skill to do that.

nice man love all the work

I think those Howling Honds will make an apearance in my Space Wolves army

Any ideia if the female assault legs will be available for selling too? I got a great ideia for those, but need a lot of them ^^

I need female assault squad marines for my own army, so their next

I plan on doing a couple more leg variations. I'm also trying to see if the torso looks with the jump harness.

If Jacqulaine47 is has the time and is willing, we can make them available to our friends here at Dakka

I'd be curious to hear how you're planning on having the Hounds appear in your Space Wolves army

The Howling Hounds are done and are on their merry way to Chapterhouse Studio at last!

I'll post more pics later when I update my blog.

Cheers!

With the glaive weapon option.

With the dual sword weapon option:

Great work as allways!

Agreed, those latest dudes are pretty awesome sculpts. Thanks for sharing.

You my friend are a LEGEND

I just got my marines in the mail. They look Great! The sculpting is top notch and the casting shows not a single flaw. I'd like to give my highest compliments to Space Corsair and Jacqualine47 on the great work!

wow i never thought I would say this but, I want manshes!!!!. Got to buy

Thank you all for your continued support

Yeah, I thought manshee was a silly idea too when Nick first proposed the idea to me. But I like to think I managed to pull it off pretty well.

I really need to learn how to take better pics though. I don't think my poorly taken photos do them justice

Zuul,

The greatest compliment for me as a sculptor is to see my figures painted by my fellow hobbyists and gamers; so please post pics of your painted figures

Zuul wrote:I just got my marines in the mail. They look Great! The sculpting is top notch and the casting shows not a single flaw. I'd like to give my highest compliments to Space Corsair and Jacqualine47 on the great work!

I'm glad you like them!

I'm looking forward to casting anything else Space Corsair sends me - I'm looking forward to those assault marine sculpts myself for my Astral Claws army. My hope is to eventually be able to offer the helmets as all the same type of the buyer's choice rather than the current variety pack, but I've got to get more silicone before I can make additional molds of the heads.

By the way everyone, to make things easier and to offer better buyer protection, I put the kits on ebay at http://www.ebay.com/itm/330721206800?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 I think that that will make it easier for people to get access to Space Corsair's wonderful kit.

Wow. Just started discovered this blog, your sculpts are incredible. I love how dynamic your posing is! I'm a complete noob at green stuff so this is highly inspirational!

Looking good !

Hi all,

Just letting you know that E-bay removed the listing - they claimed that it was counterfeiting (basically, they thought I was a re-caster), but I'm contesting it and am confident that once I go through E-bay's process they will repost the listing since it doesn't violate their terms of service.

In the meantime, don't worry - everything that's been paid for is still being shipped out, and you can still get Space Corsair's kit by e-mailing or PMing me.

Any chance of getting plain shoulder pad sets and some regular arms for those female marines o.o I'm not the best at greenstuffing but beyond the pair that come with arms nothing seems to fit D:, the shoulder pads too are huge by comparison :<

Marien Shoulderpads are SUPPOSED to be huge.

I plan to use some RTB-01 arms with shortened forearms. They're smaller than than the current line and fit the models a bit better. IMHO at least.

Kepora wrote:Marien Shoulderpads are SUPPOSED to be huge.

So is marine armour but they've been scaled down to the females size. when I say the regular pads are too big, I mean if they had there arm extended straight the pad would likely come down to there forearm and then some as well as be dangling widely off either side of the shoulder.
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RTB-01 arms?

FRIKKING AWESOME !

Sasa0mg wrote:

Kepora wrote:Marien Shoulderpads are SUPPOSED to be huge.

So is marine armour but they've been scaled down to the females size. when I say the regular pads are too big, I mean if they had there arm extended straight the pad would likely come down to there forearm and then some as well as be dangling widely off either side of the shoulder.
--

RTB-01 arms?

RTB01 = First plastic Space Marines set from 1987, the "beakies"

oh lol >.< bleh

You are using standard marine arms with standard marine pads right? Wouldn't that imply that the regular pads are too big for the regular marine arms too?

You are probably going to have to play around with the placement of the pads until you find one that looks okay. I find that I have to do that with the regular marine models at times too. You do have to fiddle around with it more to find the right placement than the male model though.

There are pics with examples of the models using regular marine arms and pads on the first two pages of this blog.

I thought the over-sized shoulder pads and the arms looked fine on them, but maybe I was willing to overlook it because I just didn't want to sculpt the pads and arms

Let me try putting some models together myself this weekend to see what the problem is.

Hopefully I can figure out a solution that doesn't require me to sculpt blank pads and sets of arms; I just started sculpting female arms for my female Guards and am finding them rather tedious and time consuming to sculpt sets of the same arms in multiple poses

Sorry for the delay but this was the open beta test weekend for Guild Wars 2

As promised I tried dry fitting the models.

They are put together with just superglue; no green stuff. Don't forget to pin the models together since I'm not sure how well the resin adheres to the plastics parts.

Personally I think they look fine but I like huge shoulder pads; it's one of my favorite features of the space marine design

If it really bothers you all, I can sculpt a slightly smaller pad. But you folks are going to have to convince Jacqualine to cast them up for you

Let me know what you think

The tough part only really comes when you try to put one of those pads on the pre-sculpted arms, they are just a touch too small as there smaller then regular marine arms. Though thats fixable by removing them. I have some arms and such on the way as is so we'll see how that goes

A quick update on some stuff I'm currently working on.

First up are two more leg options for the female marines; kneeling pose and another assault pose. I'm working on one more assault type legs and torso with chest harness for the upcoming female assault marine set.

I recently had a bout of nostalgia and picked up the Battletech Introductory Boxset, which made me want to try sculpting mechs

The female commissar is almost there. I've started working on her weapon options already.

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Yep, it does take a bit of fiddling around to get the shoulder pads placed, especially on the one with the pre-sculpted arms. You have to kind of fudge the placement of it on the shoulder to make it look right.

I hope they works better for you with the standard arms. Please keep me posted.

In the meanwhile I'll try sculpting up a smaller shoulder pad to see if it looks better. I'm always looking for ways to improve my stuff.

The new leg poses look fantastic! And I'm so looking forward to the female commissar to kick my guard infantry in the butt!

I'm absolutely with nightside on this!!

Sculpting and poses of the legs and the commissar are awsome!!
And would it be possible to get those mechanical legs for battletech mechs also as bionic legs for Space Marines, as they look really fitting?

P.S.: Concerning the schoulderpad question, i ordered a lot of FW Mark VI ones and also arms, as the are a tad thinner and smaller than the normal plastic ones.
As soon as i get my sets i will post some pics.

i have been lurking this thread for ages...but now after seeing that wonderfully done commissar i have to speak...

when does this fine mini will be available?

cheers, vik

Thanks! Glad to hear you guys like the female commissar.

nightside

I'm hoping to get her done sculpting this weekend. Then hopefully my casters, jacqualine47 or coyotius, will have the time to get them cast up for us so she can join your guards and kick some ass

miniholic

Yeah, I'd really appreciate it if you post pics of the FW Mark IV arms so I can see them for reference. If it makes enough of a difference, I might be forced to sculpt smaller arms for the female marine

I'm sculpting the mech's torso and legs as separate pieces, so it might work on the marine torsos. The legs might be a little big though. I'll give it a try once the legs are done and see if they fit.

Viktor von Domm

Hey Vik!

I been lurking on RSJake's PM Blog for ages and enjoy hearing the bantering between you guys

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1440/394917.page

Speaking of RSJake, I've recently commissioned him to do a character design sketch. I wanted to have some fun sculpting a sexy dominatrix type femme fatale, Chaos style! and figured he'd be great for coming up with the design

Hi all,

I just wanted to let everyone know that I now have additional molds made for the female space marine heads - so for any kits ordered in the future, upon request you may substitute all the helmets for a single type if you'd like

I've also been asked about getting the heads made available separately from the kit. If anyone wants these, I can do that for $0.75 per head so long as you order at least ten of the same type. If you want less than that, it has to be $1 per head.

By the way everyone, the magic of craigslist and a nice check from overtime at my regular job has led to a massive improvement in my casting equipment - just finished installing an 80 gallon 5 horsepower Campbell Hausfeld air compressor rated at 11.5cfm at 90psi... plus I got a 10 gallon industrial pressure pot and an air operated vacuum pump... bottom line is that I eliminated the need to squeeze air from my molds by hand, so there is less chance of a mold misalignment and I have far fewer miscasts going into the scrap bin.

@Space Corsair: I am LOVING the female commissar sculpt!

jacqualine47 wrote: just finished installing an 80 gallon 5 horsepower Campbell Hausfeld air compressor rated at 11.5cfm at 90psi... plus I got a 10 gallon industrial pressure pot and an air operated vacuum pump...

So jealous!

Thanks for the plug Space Corsair!

The design has been sent to you! I am SOOOOO looking forward to seeing what you do with it!

I'll be looking for news of your female commissar to be cast and available!

Dangit....I need to have an all female squad of Berzerkers now! Those assault legs would be great for that!

will we be seeing the design soon too?

and thanks corsair banter seems to be one major ascpect of the league members^^

Hey Jacqualine,

You absolutely rock!

I'm so grateful that you are willing to cast my stuff for us.

Great to hear that you are interested in the commissar model too. I'm hoping to have a few more greens to send your way in a couple weeks.

Jake,

Thanks for the kick-ass concept sketch!

I think the eyes on her chest armor are an amusing take on the whole "Hey buddy, my eyes are up here" line.

I'll do a final pass on the design and flesh out he weapons a bit more as we discussed before I start.

I'm really looking forward to sculpting her. She's going to be a lot of fun to sculpt.

Vik,

Bantering and rivets; lots and lots of rivets!

Here's the original concept design sketch by RSJake to satiate your curiosity:

I think an Axe could use a more Tech approach, as the whole design seems to be very cyberpunky, but it's an outstanding sketch nonetheless! Kudos, RSJ!
I'm looking forward to see Corsair sculpting this figure. I feel it will be great!

I just found this thread and am very excited about the female marines. I have been wanting to start a SoB army and don't like metal as much and the ridiculous looks of some of the models. Is there any time frame on when they will be able to be purchased again?

Also, Space Corsair, are you planning on doing some 'flying' legs or something that would look good if the model has a jump pack/wings? Maybe a leaping stance or something. Similarly, is there a chance to get some tabards and possibly some other various cloaks/fabric things (whatever it is called where cloth is coming from the belt, covering the front and going down to about the feet) to accent the models?

AWESOME sculpts!

hahahaha

Dear Space Corsair
SCULPT ALL THE THINGS!!!!

lol. joking.

The female marines are still available. Just contact jacqualine47 for the details.

Space Corsair wrote:I need female assault squad marines for my own army, so their next

I plan on doing a couple more leg variations. I'm also trying to see if the torso looks with the jump harness.

If Jacqulaine47 is has the time and is willing, we can make them available to our friends here at Dakka

I'd be curious to hear how you're planning on having the Hounds appear in your Space Wolves army

Those are incredible news... i got a nice ideia for the fluff of the army, but want it to be an all helmeted, "jump packed" army. Thanks for making it possible

About the Hounds... they have a great "wolfy" feel to them, and i really like that helmets and the "wolfy icons" you put here and there. I dont know exactly HOW i would use them, but i want to use them Maybe as scouts or Wolf Guard. Even as "hired aliens" counting as one of those.

It is how your greatness work my friend, your skill is such and your creations are so beautifull that we want to use them, even when we dont know how...

Space Corsair wrote:Hey Jacqualine,

You absolutely rock!

I'm so grateful that you are willing to cast my stuff for us.

Great to hear that you are interested in the commissar model too. I'm hoping to have a few more greens to send your way in a couple weeks.

Jake,

Thanks for the kick-ass concept sketch!

I think the eyes on her chest armor are an amusing take on the whole "Hey buddy, my eyes are up here" line.

I'll do a final pass on the design and flesh out he weapons a bit more as we discussed before I start.

I'm really looking forward to sculpting her. She's going to be a lot of fun to sculpt.

Vik,

Bantering and rivets; lots and lots of rivets!

Here's the original concept design sketch by RSJake to satiate your curiosity:

I don't even D:...

I want all of your sculpts to be available! xD


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Fem death company I have going with those marines! no jump packs yet tho till painted.

I've gotten my female marines and am very happy with the kit. I do find the stock shoulderpads to be too large, but am probably just going to substitute Scout pads instead by cutting them off of my many spare scout arms.

The real problem is I don't have any smaller size chapter badges printed for Blood Ravens!

I look forward to ordering more heads, hopefully when the female scout torsos are available. Your work here is remarkable, both in the sculpting and to Jacqualine for the casting.

hey corsair...

thanks for sharing that cool looking setch with us!

i am with ishkatar here that the axe would be good if suitable tech´ed up...

and it seems you have visited the other riveteers thread occaisionally too

Hi all,

Thanks for all your kind praises. It warms my heart and gets me fired up to keep on sculpting way past reasonable bed time.

As if I didn't' have enough on my plate, I've decided to enter koridon's May Challenge:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/447166.page#4233013

Koridon is proposing this challenge since May is Cystic Fibrosis awareness month. Please help spread the word to help raise awareness about Cystic Fibrosis.

http://www.cff.org/GetInvolved/CFAwareness/

Time for me to brush up on my painting skills; it's been ages since I actually painted anything

Ty for the shout out and for those interested please do join in the fun

I dont have any scouts for size comparison nor have I received my marines yet so I hoping someone can help out.

Are scout arms smaller, especially the shoulder guards. They appear to be one piece with the arm unlike marines ?

Guard arms .... would they look too small ?

Ideally, I would love to see a side by side of marine arms with shoulders, scout arms with the built on pad, and some guard arms. Next to the new female marines would even be better.


......check my mailbox each day in anticipation.

Here's some size comparison pics of the arms from IG, Scouts and Marines.

Personally I think the IG arms are a good fit for the female scout torso but too small (and unarmored) to fit the female marine body well.

My preference is to use the standard marine arms since it matches the exaggerated proportions of the legs, unlike the relatively more 'realistic' proportioned arms.

One possibility is to simply not put on the shoulder pads.

Though your safest bet might be to wait for me to finish sculpting the smaller blank shoulder pads for the female marines that fits the standard arms.

Here's a progress pic of my entry for Koridon's "May Challenge" for Cystic Fibrosis awareness month:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/447166.page#4233013

Folks are starting to post their w.i.p. pics there; you should check it out. Who knows, it may even get you interested in joining in on the fun

The model has been primered now and is ready for some paint. It's been years since I painted anything, so I'm going to keep it simple and hope for the best

man i love ur work so far did not know what i was gana get from u.

I just wanted to cross-post over here that I am offering prize support for Koridon's May Challenge. The prizes are being offered in the memory of Phil Gunther, a friend of mine whom passed away from Cystic Fibrosis. First place gets two of the Female SM conversion kits, and second and third place each get parts for a single Female SM mini.

@Space Corsair
I just saw the small shoulderpads you are working on... and now I lament if only I had not already ordered a crapload of Astral Claws shoulderpads from Forgeworld LOL

@Everyone
I also wanted to mention that at Space Corsair's suggestion I have agreed to do a series of video articles on casting. The videos will go over equipment, mold making, casting, and then there will be a few more videos with some tips and tricks like recycling molds, the amazing shrinking mold, and duplicating / 'backing up' an existing mold without having to go through the clay phase again, etc. The plan is to start filming these videos as soon as Space Corsair gets his next batch of sculpts to me since they will be my demonstration in the video.

- Jacqualine

Request:

Female Guard. Not just torsos, but legs with wide hips. And they need to be shorter than the men. Someone did some female guard a few years ago and they ended up bigger than the men!

Just stuck together the first marines and am really glad i got those! Excelent sculpting and casting!


They fit perfectly with the male marines!
Concerning the matter with the shoulderpads, there is only a minimal problem - sizewise - with the figure which comes with the arms already in place.
Otherwise i do not see any probs when you use the normal arms from geedub. I am going to use on all the miniatures FW bolters and especially the FW
backpack (much slimmer, by 2-3mm, than the geedub one).

Can't wait to see the assault and scout ones finished!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I started a new job last month and I've been busy flying back and forth between Seattle and San Francisco on business

Things are starting to settle down finally, so hopefully I'll be able to get back to sculpting again and posting stuff again soon.

miniholic,

Looking good; I'm really looking forward to seeing your progress on your army

Those manshees are just amazing SC... wow. I've got your female scorpion model and she's fantastic too. Continue gender-bending away... you're turning out some amazing work!

Here are pics of my entry for Koridon's "May Challenge" for Cystic Fibrosis awareness from last month.

No contest winner, but I'm glad I was able to get it done. It was a rather hectic last month with starting my new job and the resulting weekly business trips.

I had lot of fun painting a figure for a change. It also made me realize that I really need to paint more so I can get better.

I really need to learn how to take better picture as well. The purple looks a lot different in real life.

She looks really good, I think the rose is amazing well done.

Beautiful work SC, everything is so crisp. As Gir mentioned... amazing work on the rose.

The rose is mega wish I could do more freehand stuff

i was so happy to see a female marine in the contest

from what i've seen on here i'd be interested in buying the bodies and arms you've sculpted, they're really good I already have some female heads that fit nicely with space marines let me know if you could do some for me I'd be willing to cover costs and labour. Would be well worth it. Hope this is possible.

Just a quick post showing the stuff that got sent to Jacqualine for casting.

Included in the shipment were:

Female rкомисса́р (aka commissar)
- I decided not to sculpt the weapons since it would unnecessary delay getting the figure cast and I figured you would rather provide your own weapon-load-outs to suit your army anyways.

Female marine scout torso
- for use with the usual scout legs (with modifications to the crotch) and IG arms with the female marine heads from the current sets.

Female marine torso with jump harness
- for use with separate assault posed legs. Jacqualine will be separating the torso of the current assault pose figures from their legs to offer them as separate components.

Female marine helm with opened chin guard
- this is my own helm for my assault squad captain. I plan on doing variants with the face guard fully opened and one with it fully closed once I get the cast back.

Female marine legs
- one kneeling posed and another assault posed legs.

Smaller marine shoulder pads
-One is smaller than the other, but both are smaller than the standard marine pads. I prefer the larger of the two but I'm going to leave it up to Jacqualine to decide which one she wants to cast up for us.

Stuff currently on my work bench:

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd let you all know that those beautiful greens arrived safe and sound, and I successfully made the first master mold. Now I just have to cast about fifteen new masters from that mold and then I can make a production mold and start getting these sculpts sent out to reinforce armies everywhere

I had a little bit of a setback though - last night the pump on my big air compressor died due to a dropped valve causing a cracked head, so I'm using a crappy little 3 gallon one from walmart until I can afford a new pump when I get my next paycheck in two weeks. The setback shouldn't delay me too much - its just annoying LOL.

@ Space Corsair - I'm loving the female soldiers greens! They put the old Phoenix Gaming Club sculpts I was using for my army to shame. Please let me know if there is anyway I can help you get that project done more expeditiously, I'd absolutely love to help.

I really like the female commissar. She is not the Sextrovert commissar that seems to be all too common out there.

The female IG sculpts look promising.

Those female marines look awesome!

I just found your stuff last night, I love it love it love it. I kid you not when I say I want to do an entire marines army based only off of your female marine sculpts. I even have an idea for terminator girls (I can throw you an explanation of the idea if you want.) Hope to buy tons very soon, well, as soon as your wonderful caster-priestess has the time ^^

I'm looking forward to getting the castings of the female commissar myself from Jacqualine. I'm working on the female troopers right now for her to lead into battle.

keyoftwilight,

I'm not planning on doing any female terminators since I personally don't feel a need for it in my own army at that level of armor coverage

Besides, if I do female terminator marines, someone's bound to ask for female Dread's

Though the mecha-musume style armor idea you brought up would be cool. Though if I was going to do that, I'd rather just do a straight-up anime style pin up girl figure instead than a female space marine version

Cheers!

must get female ig troopers...TAKE MY MONEY NAOW

Hi everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still waiting on parts for my air compressor to come in the mail - I'm getting ill with the company because they promised delivery two weeks ago and I haven't gotten the parts yet.

On the bright side, I managed to jury-rig it sloppy jaloppy style to work well enough last night that I can finish the molds this week. Unfortunately the cheapie compressor wasn't up to the task. I should be back on schedule and in full production mode soon though, so rest assured the casts are coming soon