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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

theHandofGork wrote: If I could make a request, could you go through a little more in detail about your work? I think it'd make an informative and interesting read.


Sure. What kind of information are you looking for ?

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

HOW TO RAISE A BLACK GUARD FORM THE DEPTHS OF THE BITS BIN

1 Leftover Head from Grave Guard Box Set (18 Heads in the box for 10 models, so you should have 8 spares)
1 Leftover Shield from the Grave Guard Box (If you've armed them greatweapons, you have 10 spare shields)
1 Empire Knight Body, Legs, and Arms (Knights box sets comes with 8 knights, convenient!!)
1 Horse with Barding (Knights box sets comes with 8 of these too, convenient!!)
1 Skeletal Steed (go dig some up, I had tons from an old undead army)



The Black Knight goes together almost flawlessly. You will want to drill the head and neck and add a pin.
You need to space the head and shoulders apart a bit for it too look right since there is no neck.



Take the empire horse, and cut away everything that isn't barding.
I used a really sharp #15 blade and it only took a minute or two.

Chop your skeletal steeds tail off.
Then Glue the haves of your barding over the skeletal horse.
Drill a little hole in the kaboose and glue tha tail back in.





A box of Grave Guard and a Box of Empire Knights should turn out 10 Grave Guard and 8 Black Knights.
Not too shabby for a fledgeling VC army.

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Here, the poor slavegiant was disarrmed



Used my hobby saw to give him some liposuction



Glued some rare earth magents to his stumps so I could reattach them later



Used some inexpensive air hardening clay, DAS, to fill the void.



DAS usually sucks for anything miniatures related becuase of it's texture, but I'll be applying a skin of green stuff over this so it's not an issue here.



All the horns were just too chaosy for me. If I'm going to go through the effort of sculpting onto him, which I didn't plan on originally, but did anyway, then I might as well make him the way I really want him.

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Did some work more on the Slave Giant






   
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Dakka Veteran





San Jose, CA

Awesome work!
Thanks for more detail on how you do what you do. The dead knight looks particularly cool. How do work greenstuff? Even in this preliminary stage of work it looks better than anything I can do.
Thanks again!
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Greenstuff is an epoxy clay. You snip a little bit off the roll and mix it together with your fingers. As long as you keep your fingers and tools wet it won't stick to them, but it will stick to anything dry. It has the consistancy of used chewing gum and a working life of about 15-30 minutes before it gets too rigid to sculpt. Once it hardens you can drill, file, or sand it, if need be.

I use a few sculpting tools and my fingers and work a little bit at a time. You want to work on small sections at a time and let them harden before doing the next layer.

The whitestuff is a similar epoxy clay, but is widely available in hardware stores as plumbing epoxy clay. It's pretty similar except that it's working life is much shorter, about 5 minutes. Good for bulk.


   
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[MOD]
Madrak Ironhide







I just noticed your earlier post.

YES you must do mexican wrestler ogre kingdoms. That
would be uber!

DR:70+S+G-MB-I+Pwmhd05#+D++A+++/aWD100R++T(S)DM+++
Get your own Dakka Code!

"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User





That's looking awesome! I just wonder that what you gonna put on the left arm, because right arm is like made for glub ( or what is it...? )
My idea is that if giant could hold a giant bow or something on his/her hand. It might work, if you cut out some fingers and made new one from green stuff. Enyway, keep goin'

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Five shots of head is enough. 
   
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Omnipotent Lord of Change





Albany, NY

Great kitbash on the black knight. So the new grave guard come with gw option as well? Never seen them with it, figured that if you wanted "hit on 2+ wound on 2+" gg you had to convert yourself some huge weapons ...

Way to hack into the giant some more!

- Salvage

KOW BATREPS: BLOODFIRE
INSTAGRAM: @boss_salvage 
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

@Malfred - Once I get my army set, there will be a squad of Luchadore Bulls

@Alan - Great Minds Think Alike. The original model was clubless. His right hand just happens to be in a fist. However, I had the same thought as you, and there will be a club in that hand before I'm finished with him. It's par tof the reason I removed the arms, to make it easier to work with.

@Boss Salage - Yeah, the new Grave Guard can be equipped with either hand weapons and shileds or great Weapons. I think the problem is that GW only seems to have a single squad with hand weapons and shileds painted and they keep using it over and over in the army book and battle reports.

I suspect, that by time I'm done, only green stuff will be visable.

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I've used greenstuff to smooth out his forehead, re-attached his arms, and added the base for his club.



Due to camera problems, I lost some of the progress shots I took while doing it.

The Club is a Chicken Wing bone that I sawed into two pieces and ran a paperclip through. The Coil around it is some of that plastic covered wire that holds childrens toys into their packages. Everytime my daughter gets a toy with that stuff, I try to hold onto a few pieces of it, for projects like this. The purpose of the coil is to provide a textured .surface for green stuff to adhere to


   
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Dakka Veteran





San Jose, CA

I like the chicken bone a lot. Will you paint it like a large bone or make it look like it's made of some other material?

Or I guess you could just not paint it at all. What's the plan?
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

The Plan is to green stuff over the entire surface of the bone and then carve runes/glyphs into it. I want it to look like a huge arcane weapon made of ancient dragon bone.


   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Did some work on the giant

* Filled in his belly
* Sculpted a little finger on his ight hand
* Started filling in the bone weapon grip







   
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'





Spreading the word of the Turtle Pie

This is nice!

Great idea for the club, its looking great.

   
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Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon




No. VA USA

adamsouza wrote:

The Club is a Chicken Wing bone that I sawed into two pieces and ran a paperclip through. The Coil around it is some of that plastic covered wire that holds childrens toys into their packages. Everytime my daughter gets a toy with that stuff, I try to hold onto a few pieces of it, for projects like this. The purpose of the coil is to provide a textured .surface for green stuff to adhere to



I hope you prepped that bone by drying it (at the very least) or you will have a stinking weapon when it starts to biodegrade. I love the natural look, but I usually suggest staying away from foodstuffs to work with. (who knows what bacteria will come of that?)

A woman will argue with a mirror.....  
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I soak my chicken bones in an Isopropl Alcohol solution to disinfect/preserve them.

Yes, this isn't the first project I've done that involves bones....

I'll post pics later

   
 
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