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I love that pose. Are there supposed to be three pictures in that last post? I can only see one, and two jpg icons.

Have you considered having his weapon holstered and in his hands are parts of a dread that he just tore in half? Or would that be too awesome even for a warboss? (This is a great conversion)

It's a cool idea, but I don't have the dread to sacrifice for the cause, and I don't really want to spend the money on gettin' one just to ruin.

Dremelled the other arm down. The only spikes left are on the edges of the face.

Got a couple of different angle shots, as well.














What do you guys think? The new arm definitely needs resurfacing.

man I dont know why but I cant see your images (except the first one in the first thread), hell I cant even see your Avatar or sig.. Could you post a link so I could have a look..

I seem to be having the same issue. Could see them fine the other day, now I can't.

Looks great. The body looks a lot better than I thought it would after having been subjected to all that dremeling. I can't wait to see this guy finished.

My web host keeps dropping my site offline every so often - it tends to come back after about 15 minutes or so.

I've been looking a lot at a warboss model on CoolMiniorNot I've been enamored with - Ragnar Skulleater. The mini in that is pretty much inquisitor-scale, but I see a lot of similarities in general body structure.

Though of course I am not nearly anything of an accomplished sculptor, I've been thinking about what I want to do with this model. I'd like to sculpt pants on him, really - I've been thinking I might be able to do it, actually, if I try doing something along the same lines as that Skullork miniature has - just the upper leg, and the rest is boot. Same with the shirt - it'd be nice to have, but I'm not sure I could sculpt anything that looks even reasonably close...

Suggestions would be highly appreciated for both the sculpting of clothing and the resurfacing of the musculature.

Still, it's given me a bit of inspiration I wanted to ask about. Looking at that power klaw, I really like the design - it looks dangerous enough, to be sure. It actually reminded me of the power klaw that one of the Inquisitor models weilds - Witch Hunter Tyrus.



Take a look at the bit on GW's bits page.

I'm not sure if it's too big, but it might be a decent foundation for a looted power klaw. Can anyone help me figure out if it's too large? Maybe give me dimensions?

What do you guys think of that idea?

Instead of a shirt, you could try making some armour for him out of plasticard. Kinda Roman Legionnaire, but Orkified.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/Forums/tabid/56/forumid/8/postid/110191/view/topic/Default.aspx

That kind of style, but obviously tighter fitting.

Looks real good ein.

On an unrelated note - I seem to be unable to send pms or post threads or polls. I'd pm a mod about this, but well...

If anybody would be kind enough to send one of the moderators this message, I'd appreciate it. I keep getting a line of text that says "critical string something something imput", or something like that.

Apologies for the derail.

Some more progress, though nothing to write home about. The internet, however, is another matter!



First off, you'll notice he now has his head.

This may be subject to change, pending on how well I can resculpt this head into more orklike features. He is missing his fangs at the moment - those will come later.

<!--emo&<img src='http://www.dakkadakka.com/DesktopModules/NTForums/images/emoticons/biggrin.gif'>-->The more astute of you might have noticed that just off-camera is a different looking choppa. Congratulations! I will reward you with a better image of it. <!--endemo-->



The old choppa is there for scale comparison. This one is much bigger and better suited for the boss, I think - it is also far from done. I need to properly join the axe head (it's all pinned, but putty will help) and add the propper detailing. I took a whack at re-doing the handle strap, and while I don't think it looks as good as on the other one, I've consoled myself with the opinion that most of the handle just won't be visible in his hands anyway - least, not enough to stress out over this. It needs more details - skulls, in particular, I think. I'm going to smack one at the bottom of the handle, if I can find it, and orkify the whole thing up a bit with some rivets when I next get the chance.

Suitably choppy?

Also, I apologize if these images occasionally don't show - I am currently engaged in an epic battle with my web host's customer service. Stories will be told for millenia of 'the man that would not stop calling'.

The axe looks great. I wouldn't worry about resculpting the face, when he gets his tusks he'll look plenty Ork enough.

Just messing around with ways of decorating the choppa a bit.

What do you guys think? I'm not quite sure what to do.

Door number three! Are you going to do it the same both sides? The first one also looks excellent. Also, are you going to have him holding an axe in each hand, or just the new super mondo biggierized one to go with the super mondo biggierized warboss?

You could have the spare axe on his belt.

I actually went a different route. Sort've.





I'll probably throw the glyphs on it anyway.



It doesn't look too bad like that, I think. Needs some more.. stuff... on the handle, though.

by the way jamsessionein, have you finished that stompa gargant of yours. I don't think I saw it painted

woo I can see it .. cool stuff.

I think I'm going to leave the choppa like this. I haven't made my mind up on the glyphs yet - they're not attached - but the rest of it looks decent enough to leave.



Not sure what's next. I imagine the power klaw will probably be!

the glyph looks good, as does the entire choppa.

Now THAT'S a choppa!

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about this! My normal laptop is fried and it's taken me a bit to get a usable replacement. Some awful pictures coming up, as I don't have photoshop to even out the levels and such. These have also been scaled down and saved in paint, so they don't look all that magnificent.

Anyway, here.







I think this new chain axe is a lot less feral than the old one - might make the boss look a bit more at home in a 40k setting. It's basically just a scaled-up version of the standard warboss one - I'll be adding appropriate vents and worky bits to the back once I figure out how to do the intended vents without a problem. I'm also going to cap the bottom of the handle off. I'll probably wrap it, too.



I've also been sculpting a little bit on the boss's back - mostly just smoothing out what's already there. Nothing too fancy yet - I have to do the entire spine out. I tried that tamiya smooth epoxy stuff, it's pretty awful. Greenstuff's the ticket.

like the chainchoppa a lot more. got any ideas for the claw yet?

I sculpted the foundation of one of the Warboss's boots today, it actually wasn't as bad as I thought.





Going to layer additional armor over it like so:



I had to cut the feet down a bit to get them to be proper ork-foot-sized. If you look at the other foot you'll get an idea of what I mean.

A bit further with the boot. It may not seem like much for most people, but this is probably the most I've sculpted anything aside from maybe flames and small details, and I'm reasonably happy with how it's coming out so far.



Gotta trim the excess down off the heel once that piece is solid. The waiting is the hardest part!

I've been using the spare GS to work a bit more on smoothing out the back, for what it's worth.

I'll probably make the pant legs on this side before starting work on the other leg.

Good grief. You make many of our own projects look, well, this is a family forum...

Thanks for all the updates.

I feel like a few more pictures.

The top of the boot was cut down just a little bit so it didn't go all the way up to his knee, as I felt it might've been a bit too big. It looks a bit.. cartoony, I guess, but I don't really think it's bad - pants will probably help. You can get a look at a few more of the spots on the back I've touched up, though a majority of it is in the upper back and shoulders.









Sorry if they're a bit blurry, low light conditions and all.

Gonna have to sculpt some shin armor on, and straps. I'm not in the mood to do it, so I'm using photos to put it off for now. <!--emo&<img src='http://www.dakkadakka.com/DesktopModules/NTForums/images/emoticons/biggrin.gif'>--><!--endemo--> I need to get back into my fearless sculpting mood where I just go at it.

I think the main reason I'm working on sculpting the legs first is that if I botch them, I can swap them out for Dreadnought legs.

I don't see you botching them legs anytime soon Jam. Looking sweet so far bro.

The boot looks good, impressively smooth and well-shaped. I see the cartoony feel you mention, but I wouldn't worry about it. Orks and all of that. On the choppas, I look forward to seeing the chain-choppa finished up, because I'm actually a fan of the more standard choppa, which might be because it's more done ...

- Boss Salvage

The side of the boot and strap is done because it's just too difficult to sculpt a proper armor plate over the front of that shin, and plasticard isn't cooperating.

Sculpted some pants on, though they're pretty bare at the moment. I basically didn't know where to sculpt the folds and such, so I just covered the musculature underneath as best I could. I will touch areas up as best I can after it's all set and dried. I wanted to add stitching, too, to the sides and such, but I found that to be particularly hard to add so I just left it alone.

I figure the spots that I really botch I can cover with an armor plate or two, in any event.

I would appreciate people who might understand cloth/sculpting better to maybe do a drawover or two, as I've found in past they really help me get a proper image in mind.