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That spine now looks freakin awesome. That's exactly what I was getting at! Also I noticed more details on his back which also looks very gross (in a good way, of course).

The tongue looks good so far, but personally I dont like his nose and mouth. I'm thinking instead of a giant nose, perhaps make it slits like a snake (a solid example of this is a picture of my good friend Lucius the Eternal in the Chaos Codex). Perhaps even make his mouth like the Lucius picture as well? I know teeth are very hard to do, but you seem to have been able to grasp the concept of GS quite well so it shouldnt be too much of a problem. His eyes, while both are well done individually, look sorta off place (which may be what you were going for). If you dont want to change his eyes, I noticed a bit of a burst pustule on the top of his head, you could add another eye in there and then his mis-matched face would look even more daemonically delicious. My final bit of criticism on his head is that the shape is too round, and doesn't really fit with the whole amorphous blob feeling that Nurgle things have. For more ideas, I'd suggest checking out the old and new GUO heads, as well as the FW one.

So yeah those are just my own little quirks, but to be perfectly honest it is very good how it stands. I'm especially impressed with the spine (and pleased you used that idea!) Use those ideas if you like... just be sure to take more pictures! Awesome work, keep it up. Can't wait to see more!

Thanks Anticitizen

Great to get some solid feedback.

I'm thinking of ditching the nose as yeah - it didn't look quite right. The face sort of reminds of an owl bear for anyone who has played D&D.

Thinking maybe if I ditched the nose, put in some slits like a skull or snake and added another eyeball just above. And yes - I wanted the eyes off kilter to try and make him uglier (symetry is one of the hallmarks of beauty).

Now, onto the walker...

Keen on feedback for this, mocked up a leg:



The platform I am using is round with 6 legs spread out radially (so no front or back to the base). LOL - in hindsight I should have made it 7!

This is just a mock up glued together - does the idea look sound? Two claws on each leg would be holding it up. I also need it to be reasonably robust, as the beasty on top is getting quite heavy now!

Thanks for your help everyone - much appreciated.

Now that you mentioned having 7 legs, you clearly have to do it, haha. If you look at the most glorious Chaos Star, it obviously has 8 points. If you remove the front/top point you will be left with 7 (durrr) and you'll have a perfect spot for enemies to get eaten. Behold my mad photoshop skillz for the legs:



I don't know if you'll like that idea, but at least it will have 7 legs! (and in turn plenty of support)

All Im gonna say is I can wait to see it finished.

actually i would have liked that bosy wich had only hotglue, it would have been something very unique, ofcourse it would have needed some GS

Harlequin Baby!

Cool so far, gotta second the losing the nose bit though.

anticitizen013 wrote:Now that you mentioned having 7 legs, you clearly have to do it, haha. If you look at the most glorious Chaos Star, it obviously has 8 points. If you remove the front/top point you will be left with 7 (durrr) and you'll have a perfect spot for enemies to get eaten. Behold my mad photoshop skillz for the legs:

I don't know if you'll like that idea, but at least it will have 7 legs! (and in turn plenty of support)

Thanks AC,

I think I will go through and create a 7 legged walker, although I'm thinking that I'll make it with 7 legs spread around it.

This is because I like the idea of the engine part not having a facing as such, 7 legs for Nurgle and to provide stability (as I said, it's getting heavy!)

Cheers for the effort.

aunshova wrote:Harlequin Baby!

???

(´,,,´) wrote:actually i would have liked that bosy wich had only hotglue, it would have been something very unique, ofcourse it would have needed some GS

Well, he's got a soul of hot glue at least!

;-)

FearPeteySodes wrote:Cool so far, gotta second the losing the nose bit though.

Yeah - beaky is going to go if I get time tonight.

Thinking of maybe like a skull's nose with skin rotted away from it:



Any opinions on the shape of the leg (I know that it's a poor photo, but have tried to adjust it enough that you can see the concept).

Well to start off with i thought you were crazy and it looked gak.

But i didnt realise you were so good at modellin and now it's startin to look fukin awesome.

By the way the nose idea wud b good aswell.

i agree with sev, at first i thort you wer mad, but you really have a special talent with modelling n this soulgrinder is starting to look freaking awesome, i look forward to seeing some more

I can just imagine this beastly monstrosity clunking across the battlefield vomiting on everything. Which gave me another idea... once you do create the legs (more on my 'vision' in a second ) you should have them dripping with pus/ooze. Practise making tendrils of goo with the glue gun for a disgusting effect (once you get a droplet, blow on it so it cools as such).

So, for the legs, your idea thus far is spot on, but I think the 'knees' should rise above the central hub of legs. That will give it a spindly yet creepy look to it. The alternative is obviously to make them beefy and monstrous, both would look awesome, IMO.

If you "skull-erize" the face as you suggested, I think that will look a lot better

sev07 wrote:By the way the nose idea wud b good aswell.

Cheers Sev - yep - will lose the beaky nose...

Budda 09 wrote:i agree with sev, at first i thort you wer mad, but you really have a special talent with modelling n this soulgrinder is starting to look freaking awesome, i look forward to seeing some more

Thanks - this is a good project to learn GS technique on as you can be gross without being exact.

anticitizen013 wrote:I can just imagine this beastly monstrosity clunking across the battlefield vomiting on everything. Which gave me another idea... once you do create the legs (more on my 'vision' in a second ) you should have them dripping with pus/ooze. Practise making tendrils of goo with the glue gun for a disgusting effect (once you get a droplet, blow on it so it cools as such).

So, for the legs, your idea thus far is spot on, but I think the 'knees' should rise above the central hub of legs. That will give it a spindly yet creepy look to it. The alternative is obviously to make them beefy and monstrous, both would look awesome, IMO.

If you "skull-erize" the face as you suggested, I think that will look a lot better

I like the idea of the spindly legs coming above - would give it a 7 legged arachnid sort of feel.

Thoughts on this sort of look?



The body looking at it again would probably be a little smaller than this view comparatively - but this sort of idea.

That looks pretty solid for sure. That pic is a good representation of how it will look. I like how the legs have 2 points of connection instead of just 1. Diseased robo arachnids are cool... hah.

Keep it up, man, I'm getting antsy, I want to see more (and I'm sure everyone else does too).

I think I'm going to puke!

Which is good because its nurgle, All hail father nurgle!

once again, i cant wait to see this finished model, i would be shaking in my boots if i saw this diseased arachnid clonking towards me on a battlefield

OK - it's time for Face Off!



OK - removed the ears, tongue, mouth and nose.



Then drilled in a little where the nose and third eye goes:



Then built it back up again, including adding a much better set of jowls (will probably add another layer with the mouth when it's dried tomorrow).



Also, added some tendons/muscles to the claw:



Thanks for all the feedback guys. As you can see, quite happy to take onboard constructive ideas or advice! Keep it coming.

Cheers

Tim

Looking much better than last time, you certainly have a thing with green stuff, all i can do is little poor blob things

Awesome man!

I was actually going to mention that it's nice that someone is using the ideas the community is presenting, and not just dismissing them (which I suppose is perfectly fine too ). Can't wait to see the face/mouth/thing take shape. Nice other eye

Have you thought of a colour scheme for him yet? There's a picture of a model I converted in my gallery (link in a second), and I think that sort of eye colour would look good with whatever grossness you select for the rest of the body. I used browns, yellows and greens, all stemming from a central point which then turned into a single black dot for the pupil.



Make sure to gloss varnish some bits of it for added effect!

God that third picture down of the face is horrifying, in a kind of nurgly good way. Again, harlequin baby. Goggle it at your own risk. I dare not provide links.

aunshova i hate you, i just googled harlequin baby and now im scarred for life. thanks alot

Hello and welcome to the internet, enjoy your stay.

anticitizen013 wrote:Awesome man!

I was actually going to mention that it's nice that someone is using the ideas the community is presenting, and not just dismissing them (which I suppose is perfectly fine too ). Can't wait to see the face/mouth/thing take shape. Nice other eye

Have you thought of a colour scheme for him yet? There's a picture of a model I converted in my gallery (link in a second), and I think that sort of eye colour would look good with whatever grossness you select for the rest of the body. I used browns, yellows and greens, all stemming from a central point which then turned into a single black dot for the pupil.

Make sure to gloss varnish some bits of it for added effect!

Thanks for that - looks very cool.

I really like that eye. My thoughts right now are to paint the two "normal" eyes as having cataracts and paint the third eye demonically. Was thinking a cats eye or red, but really like the effect of that one.

Looking to create a regular rotting flesh look with black necrosis.

aunshova wrote:God that third picture down of the face is horrifying, in a kind of nurgly good way. Again, harlequin baby. Goggle it at your own risk. I dare not provide links.

OK - at work so looked it up on google images on my phone. Those are some lovely Harelquin Baby Blankets!

corpsesarefun wrote:aunshova i hate you, i just googled harlequin baby and now im scarred for life. thanks alot

More disturbing are the other hits you get for it in Google images - like someone's pic for their myspace page!

Hi all

Opinions on this for the mouth?

And also, although I would model the tongue better than shown here, tongue or no tongue (as the bishop said to the actress...)

Thanks

If you could make the tongue more dynamic (sorta like flicking out in the air or some such) that would increase its awesomeness by 59%! Do it!

the tongue ruins that sculpt for me :(
either dont have a tongue (IMO the best option for that mouth) or have a flicky dynamic tongue.

spawn bits are ur friend

I'll agree and say that it does not need a tounge, it makes it look to goofy almost. What you have at the moment is great. If you make any change, I think lots of wiry tongues could be cool, with one thicker one of composite tendrils

Also, aunshova, I hate you. At least I went on wikipedia not google images... :O

LOL

Yeah - tried a thin tongue picking his nose and it looked smeg.

So, raided the toothpick holder:



and then added in the teeth, another jowl, gums and detailing.





LOL

The sort of face only a mother could love!