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So in waiting for the official release of the netea skitarii list, I'm going to make a small army. And I dont wanna buy any models. I need to work on scratchbuilding, so this is a nice excuse!
Here's a super blurry pic of a hypaspist!



I'm going for a gasmasky look on them, and the body is basically just a robe. The head needs a lot of work as you can see!

Seems like a solid start, you'll likely to get more feedback with an actual picture in your op rather than a link and the promise of a blurry photo.

Looks like an okay start do you have a concept sketch of where you're going with this?

What on earth am i looking at here friend?

Huh. The pic didnt show up. My bad, let me try to fix it!

FIXED!

Looks decent so far. I think, especially with 6mm sculpts, you might want to jerry up a couple of photography aids. Nothing spectacular, just a backdrop of a neutral colour, and a couple of pieces of white card or plasticard at the sides to bounce and diffuse whatever light you shine in. Even just that can help a lot, I've found. (Corks or some other suitable, small handle for mounting sculpts on might, too!)

Thanks for the photo tips. I'll be making a cruddy lightbox for my nurgle army when the cultists are done, so that's nice!


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Ta-da! Hoods!



This guy will be a secutor. I'm working on another hood atm. Thin, ribbed guitar string for mechanical arms and an axe for him is next. Ill practice a bunch more and then hopefully get güd and start casting a skitarii army!

Backpacks!



Ill probably just use thin super glue to get this on. I heard grey stuff was very good for this scale but cant find any. Any linkage?

Nice.

Grey stuff? Procreate? Yup, it can allow finer, sharper details than green stuff. More yellow in the GS mix can also help a bit with that, though it can also be easier to see tiny details with the neutral grey putty than with very bright green.

Where's your little flag? Okay. Try here.

Thanks man! I'm running out of GS anyways, so i have an excuse!

Hello! Right into it!

I worked some on my techpriest:




And I sculpted a new torso/cloak. I think it's my best yet. Thoughts?



Also: Any good tutorials for hoods would be amazeballs!

GASMASK TERROR!!!!
WE INVADE WITH FIRE!!!!!
FLAMETHROWERS ROARING!!!!
DEATH TO ALL!!!!!

Its a song :3

So I can sculpt gasmasks now apparently. The flash is detailed, but it really emphasises all of the flaws, I've fixes the flat bit on the right side and made it more ridged.

That's awesome! Sculpting in 6mm - brave man, but they're coming together, there's real character in those poses :-D

Thanks a lot!

Looking good! How do you keep your sanity while doing this?

I don't.

The beginnings of an axe or staff or something...



I need to figure out how I bent the wire on this guys mask. Any tips for bending guitar string?

How do some orky walkers sound? I think I'll try to make a few. Kinda like this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-24395-44168_Epic%20Orks.html

That's adorable!

Needlenose pliers for bending guitarstrings..

Do you plan to cast these or are they one-off character figures?

I may end up casting the ones I like later on.

Guys. Look at this pic. I didn't even need to turn on flash!

Looking good.

That's... really cute! Nicely done!

Looks funny. Is it really 6mm? How can you seewhatyiu sculpting?

Its honestly not that hard! I form an outline of a cloak and then give that the whole pook and add the head, hood, arms, and then details.

I've continued work on this guy.

Why do you hate yourself so much?

I'm doing this as torture while waiting for my ork, of course!!!
No, but really, it's not too bad. Try it one day!

So the first guy is going to be a techpriest, that's settled. I've also made progress on the secutor.



Gasmasks! I really enjoy these, and feel that they are very admech, so they're keepers!





Also, ammo pack. He'll have one (or two) gun arms, which will feed into this. It will have added detail later. That's all for now.