Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

First let me apologise for the blurry Photos

I HATE the current dragon ogre models, the old style ogre torso and head they are stuck with strikes more laughter than fear into an opponent.

A while ago i tried to sculpt my own and it worked out well apart from the head, but next one ended up a head taller than the first.



So now I am trying to sculpt a new Dragon Ogre, based on the shaggoth pose, that I can Resin cast.



I'm Planing to cast it without arms or head, so that each model has a unique look without an obvious change in height.


And just for the hell of it (and to add an unblurred photo) my chaos dragon or 2 headed flying carnosaur



Comments welcomed

~bob

Nice sculpting on the second head, it looks almost identical to the metal version

wot 'e said

that carnie head is v good

That is a very nice final picture, I love the head. Are the wings from the Balrog?

any tutorials on sculpting muscles?

Thanks.

Yes, those are the balrog wings, the warhammer dragon wings were awful when I made that dragon.

Sculpting muscles;

First create a hard chest shaped blob of greenstuff

then, starting at the top add a blob of greenstuff for each peck, to size, and shape it with a soft sculpting tool (see http://www.rai-ro.de/katalog/shaper.jpg)
Work your way down

See How to sculpt a 35mm Knight at this site http://mandragoreminiatures.free.fr/menututorials.htm for a better idea

more updates soon

~bob

I require a close up of that AWESOME looking carnie head. aside from that, you need random spikes jutting from the beasts flanks.

the dragon ogre looks to be shaping up nicely. are you going to be adding armor? i've always wanted to see a dragon ogre in chaos armor, even though they can't have it in game....well, except for kholek suneater.

now either that 2nd carnie head is a cast, or your GS skills are somewhat amazing
i need to start getting that good lol

That's an amazing website. I can't believe I'd never encountered it before. Thanks for posting that link.

After what gordino just said, i'm clicking on that link.

After a cursory comparison to a Shaggoth I felt the upper torso was far too big, and cut out the belly to re-scale it



But even that leaves it a little to tall, compared with a stencil I produced on photoshop



So I need to do a little more resizeing work

As asked here is a close up of the carnie head, I find that sculpting from an original is far easier than sculpting a scaled down, or completely new model

Could you possibly get a side shot of the carnie head?

What did you do? Make a huge press-mold of the original head?

Eric

Carnies head
Looks alot like the new cold one's headz.
Did you make a mould for it?

greetz typhoon

It's been a while, I got distracted making these two for apocalypse


A little further to go with the dragon ogre still.


Claws, scales, straps and back spikes done.

The skull is there as a base to sculpt the face onto.

~bob

quite amazing carnie head.....but i think i need better quality pics of your dragon ogre to solidify my belief that you sculpted the carnie head w/out a mold.

not trying to be a wet towel here sorry

Great sculpting skills you got there I'd even go as far as saying that your carnosaur head looks better than the GW one.

been a while

I've cast the orginal green in resin in two parts (tail and body), losing many of the spiky bits in the process

one is currently having the arms and head sculpted


the next is almost finished painting



and the last (center right) has just come out the mold


Hands are from ogres as i can't sculpt them right and weapons are converted from flag poles and ogre swords

~bob

I'm sorry, but I really can't glean much from those pics. The overall shapes look cool, but I can't even make out muscles or anything.