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Looks great Col. I will have to get ahold of Trooper to get some of those for my grubby little mits.

Pith Heads anyone?



Plus alot more done to the Titan, a long way to go still though.

Can you do a Richard Sharpe?

I've seen a Gunnery Srgt Harper on here somewhere...

Seriously amazing work: GS painting, all great!




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I realize there is a 80yr time difference between the two..but hey...its Sharpe.

like the titan so far.

Thanks gents, a RSharp might be possible lol




The finished heads, they are entering production with Secret Weapon Miniatures and should be available by September

Very impressive.

Heads are very very good!

Keeping my eye out for...

Is that Sharpe?

Great work , i love your preatorians , also the conversions are sublime. be keeping an eye on this from now on.

I love EVERYTHING in this thread. You are one talented individual sir! Very impressive stuff.

as pith helmets are concerned i really dont see anyone better, looked into your blog and google is takes you as the mainguy to look ifor when searching for pithhelmet, so consider yourself a celeb^^

vik

So awsome, great thread, great conversions, great painting, can we see a current painted army pic?

My first proper go at sculpting was some Praetorian Roughriders, I was pleased with them at first, but never quite happy the arms were too fat amongst other flaws. I then got involved with a project for the now defunct Phoenix Clubs Praetorian Roughrider Project which was later produced by TrooperPX on Bartertown. They were never completed in full though, and were still quite static.

After that I converted up a mounted Roughrider Officer, which lead me to this - a new Roughrider sculpt.

As with the previous two versions (my own and the abortive Phoenix Club set), I'm making use of the WFB Empire Outrider Horses. This time though I'm also making use of the Pith Helmeted Head set which I sculpted for Secret Weapon Miniatures. The Torso just needs a little more detailing, the boots need adding, and the first set of arms still have a fair way to go - the one in the picture is nearly done though. I'm also thinking of turning out a scabbard and holster as accessories to join the Lance components I've already finished.

The sculpt's looking good.

cool an update^^ may i askl you when you sculpt a new model, do you use GS all the way through? or do you use a "thing" to get a basic shape and then flesh it out to get the details?

i recently started with GS work and i am now really curious as how professionals like you are starting such a project...

thanks and keep us at awe...^^

vik

Thankyou

I tend to sculpt components of a figure rather then a whole figure, thus the torso is essentially just a lump of GS, while limbs, and legs I use a armature first and just GS upon that. I just some cheap and fairly sturdy garden wire bent to shape, which you can see at the wrist (not the white bit) and at the stumps of legs.

as you mention the wire...when you are done with your sculpt how do you get rid of the surplus wire and how do you cut away it without damaging the, like here in the recent project, the feet...? i always wondered about that as many sculpters use these and i plan on doing so too in my next work...

thanks again, and i really enjoy your work^^

vik

Not a problem, well not to make it sound silly, but all I'll do is cut it slightly shorter then I'll need before I start sculpting those bits, the legs for example I'll snip off around where it would cross the harness of the horse before I start working on the boots.

that sounds more than logic to me... best to avoid harmful procedures is to avoid them entirely...this will get into my active knowhow now^^

thanks a heap...

vik

Time for a bit of an update, well a little bit, a few Praetorian bits an pieces which I've finished.

A Cyclops Demolition vehicle from FW with Operator, though I'm just using it to represent a Demolition Charge in Veteran or Special Weapons Squads.


One Manticore.


The Pyskers for a Pysker Battle Squad, started out with one I did a while back (far right), so finished up another 8 to bulk out the unit. Just need to settle on something for the Overseer now.

Roughrider sculpt finished, combined with a Secret Weapon Pith Helmet, now to sort out casting.

cool pose for a charging rider!


vik

Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with it, a big improvement over my previous sculpts I think.

And I got a package in the post today,

i hope some well known companies see the error of their ways when this reaches full production status...

Okay those are brilliant who's going to be selling them?

I am

some of the parts i cant quite make out...could you show us what each part is?

and as a fellow interrested person in praetorian uniforms...what prices will you be calling up for the set?


thanks, vik

Those are just bags of each of the components to the Roughriders already shown, just lots of them

I'll drop you a PM

yup that i understood...and got your pm...will answer in the evening...thanks mate!

Your models are bloody amazing!