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Hi Wrex

My daughter is sitting next to me here and she thinks it's awesome too. Great work.

How long to completion now?

He said it's a few months until it's 100% painted and all. I think he said November as the rough date

November sounds about right, I should be finished (I better be finished ) sometime this week with the sculpting though. I have a few simple adjustments that I need to make, but my main goal is to make at least one mouth and the chain-saw club arm. I was planning on doing something with the stomach, but I will just be leaving it as is now, and I will modify it later if the model looks like it could use it; this means more magnet madness, YAY!!!

I still need to attain some form of rigid plastic though, I do not feel like working with huge sheets of quite expensive bulk plasti-card. I was actually astounded by the "bulk" prices around here, which were around 40$ U.S. for a 4x8 piece I believe. Not particularly expensive I know, but that rivals the price of OSB, even Plywood in some cases. Anyway... I will figure out what I need to do by Monday or so for the mechanical parts.

Wrexasaur wrote:November sounds about right, I should be finished (I better be finished ) sometime this week with the sculpting though. I have a few simple adjustments that I need to make, but my main goal is to make at least one mouth and the chain-saw club arm. I was planning on doing something with the stomach, but I will just be leaving it as is now, and I will modify it later if the model looks like it could use it; this means more magnet madness, YAY!!!

I still need to attain some form of rigid plastic though, I do not feel like working with huge sheets of quite expensive bulk plasti-card. I was actually astounded by the "bulk" prices around here, which were around 40$ U.S. for a 4x8 piece I believe. Not particularly expensive I know, but that rivals the price of OSB, even Plywood in some cases. Anyway... I will figure out what I need to do by Monday or so for the mechanical parts.

I know, when I first read the ETA I was like "November? But you're almost done as i-Oh right extra magnetic limbs."

And hey! At least you HAVE the option of Bulk Plasticard. I honestly don't know how the hardware stores around here make their money -_- No sculpting tools, no hot wire cutters, no plasticard, the list goes on

Cant wait to see this thing finished.

It is coming... it sees you... I fear for our cause... we know not what this means, and what it could actually... hmmm....

I've been watching this thread for some time,and I have to say this is turning out very nicely.
I'm really looking forward too seeing more.

Thank you FITZZ, I appreciate your timing.

Thus the intuition does fly along side the dove; and into the fray, burning upon impact. Such a force it creates does merit the attention of the very present cosmos, the pure circle that continues refreshes my form and the nature under which I react.




I hope to memorize this, and what it may and/or already does entail on which I hold dear. Etc..etc...etc... and so one, and so forth do we continue, and so on.

It is a joke I suppose, but I had a of fun looking through the page with this music playing .

Wrexasaur wrote:Thanks CrashUSAR, I am pretty impressed that the GS guy can make SM models. You should ask him to put some stuff up on DakkaDakka, I am going to start working in a smaller scale soon.

My next big GS project will be a Slaanesh Titan, and I plan to make molds available to at least one company, I just have to do a bit more research into what is required.

do you mean a subjugator? if not check the datasheet on gw.com.

also I think the mould making kit is a serious investment. I use a small mould making kit and pewter and GS to copy special weapons (don't tell GW!) and it cost me 20 pounds. what it will cost to make a professional mould of a titan will be off the roof expensive (for me any way......). you'd have to make several moulds of individual pieces.

but thats just my prediction, i have had a look on google and found a mould making set but it was for jewelwry. there are alot ofmould making kits out there but i think that getting the detail out of something that large would be hard.

does look good though!

I will not be making molds myself, although the thought has crossed my mind. I would much rather have a professional company do it, but I may end up working that out with whatever company would like to produce the models.

This next project is going to be quite an undertaking, and I am switching it for my Wraithlord project which I just do not have the space for right now. I have some ideas bare-knuckle brain boxing right now, but I hesitate to start my conceptualization until the winner emerges .

I have put together a bit of a frame for the chain-saw arm. This is for reference only.

Still have not figured out how to put together the mouths, but once I get the materials I should get the first mouth-"mold" made in less than a few hours. Thinking seems to pay off a lot more than hair-thrashing my designs out ... I wonder why .

Anyway... here is a bit of an update. I would like to know what people's experiences have been with priming and painting GreenStuff, I would appreciate the input.

Wrexasaur wrote:
Anyway... here is a bit of an update. I would like to know what people's experiences have been with priming and painting GreenStuff, I would appreciate the input.

Hi Wrex

I use vaseline when using GS, and so for me I go through and wash it in warm soapy water before priming - which is probably a good idea anyway (especially with the amount of handling that it gets when making it to clean off the oil from your fingers anyway).

It then paints very well - no problems. Just like any other figure.

Thanks tallmantim

What kind of primer do you use? I was thinking of trying out some of the Krylon auto-paints I have heard about working pretty well. Something sandable might be nice.

I may put the project up after adjusting the color to grayscale (black and white photos) so the green doesn't mess with the energy of the sculpt. I am actually starting to see green when I close my eyes, this happens every time I work with a new material... but GS is just so weird . I rather like seeing nothing but bricks when I closed my eyes for a few days, same with concrete, but this stuff looks like cartoon boogers .

I used GW black primer for a large piece - and a can that I had used before at that to ensure no surprises.

Whatever you use, make sure to test it in some way, you'd had to have it clump up or something.

interesting thread man, looking forward to the final results

on krylon primers- i've went through a few cans of one of the white primers, and i've been happy with it

Thanks for the tip Greenskin Lynn.

I am planning on priming this in white, so I am glad to hear they work well. What specific type did you use, I think there are a few kinds. Not too sure about that though.

At some point this week I am going to have to make some time to go get some plasticard, or a similar material that I can use for the teeth and mechanical parts. I have been pondering whether I should put bionic toxin tanks on the shoulders; I would hook all of the tentacles into these tanks.

Something kinda like this... Wow, google hates me today, this is the closest I could find to what I am talking about. At some point I may trawl through deviantart so I can show you what I mean, but I highly doubt I will actually get around to it any time soon.

http://hongkiat.s3.amazonaws.com/concept-gad/capsule.jpg

Wow... this looks really cool, I will have to take a look into it later. I am going to make the first mouth exactly like these, that is why it is funny that I found it.

this thing looks brutal!

gj with the magnets too, it would be a nightmare to transport otherwise

I have added some detail to the chainsaw arm, and I have a few ideas for the chain. How have other people made chainswords? I am not sure I have seen all that many scratch-built here on Dakka. My plan was to try and do something with rubber, or to find a really small bike chain and mod it with teeth.

Anyway, here is the detail I added. I may add more, like tubes and a bit more texture.

tight dawg lol jk nah this is so kool like think of all the green stuffing


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tight dawg lol jk nah this is so kool like think of all the green stuffing

Lol, I can barely understand that ... thanks though Papaskittels.

I have put together my beta-mouth (does that sound wrong ) so I can get this beasty all primed so I can start to get some painting tips ... yes I will definitely still be needing help with that .

Looks sharp.

Love how this is turning out!

Im not 100% sold on the beta-Mouth. It just doesnt feel.... menacing enough.
While I'm no sculptor anywhere near this caliber, Personally I'd go with more of a snarl. Have open space in the center of the ring of teeth.


Well thats my 2 cents... take it, leave it, ignore it
In any case, great job!

The mouth is ace. You should add rows of smaller teeth like a reverse shark on the outside of the mouth for added gruesomeness.

Thanks yall.

I was actually thinking of adding a second row of teeth onto this mouth. I am not sure I want to make all those teeth for a shark mouth though. I am currently going cave-man on chopsticks with a buck knife, because I don't have a dremel with me right now.

At some point I will fully stock all the tools I could ever need, mainly a nice hobby saw, and a sanding wheel. Doing this by hand will end up giving me arthritis for sure .

For now I am planning on adding a rough row of around 12 large teeth that look like tusks. I was thinking of adding a bunch of horns because the texture is a bit imbalanced on the whole model, but I will just add a few sores here and there instead before priming. I hope I remember to make a tongue before I paint it... hmm, this gives me more options for MAGNET MADNESS!!!

Perhaps a relatively thin/small tongue wrapped around a guardsman/space marine/ork/necron/whatever to show its effectiveness of torture and killing. While still being nurgley of course.

Great job, keep it up!

Thanks ShadowRocket.

I added some tusk-like mouth claws... I am not sure they work very well. If they turn out to look a bit odd, I will just shorten a couple or remove them to the tip so there will just be molar-like nubs. All in all the effect is actually pretty cool, and it offers a lot of opportunities to add crunched up guardsmen into this particular mouth. I think the tongue on this one will be holding half of a gaurdsman while the mouth munches on the rest. The tongue will be holding the leftovers to the side as if taunting it's prey. Hmmm... I think I may leave the tusks as they are come to think of it.

I adjusted the tusks a bit, and I am planning on adding some detailed gums and a bit of webbing at the base of the tusks. Like a bats wing, but more along the lines of a lion-fish fin.

Like this sort of...

I like em'! Hmm... I'm thinking you're not totally fond of em' because they're so bunched maybe? Could do a ring of them around the mouth but I think they look fine as is

That thing is awesome!!!! Totally love those teeth/tusks for raking in the food (i presume), its looks kinda like a preying mantis' mouth.

ps. thanks for the sculpting advice

I am pretty much finished seaming up the mouth. This pic isn't so great, but I don't have the time to put up more until later. Hopefully I will be able to get some pics with sunlight. I have decided to keep the mouth as it is, and I made a few very minor adjustments to the tusks. I'll still ad a tongue and some edibles.

Oh man... I love this thing. I think I'd actually refuse to play against it on account of how Gakked it looks (In a good way)