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gobert wrote:Looking good theCrowe! I think the circle aliens are my new favourites!

Thanks gobert. Mine too!

Viterbi wrote:Your ideas and the execution are just amazing!

Can't take credit for the ideas. My kids are the inspired ones. I'll claim credit for the execution though. Thanks very much. You're very kind.

Super excited to show what I've been working on tonight! Squareville just got a whole lot more colourful.


The Square Cops got a nice shiny new Square Chief. Look at Square Dog, he's delighted. The lads are sneaking off before they get any more assignments from the boss.

Then next up and fully painted we have the brand new heroes of geometry...

Super Square and Captain Circle. Proper comic book colours for these fellas.

And of course every hero story needs its villains.

Nober the Robber, the Rampaging Robot and the Triangle Alien could team up any time for an all action show down. I totally forgot to take a WIP shot of the little triangle guy but you get the idea by now. Milliput triangle, wire and greenstuff legs and arms, greenstuff facial features. It's the miniature sculpting equivalent of a stickman.

And then of course there's this part of the plan.

The old slice and swap to create the evil Super Villain Robo-Disk and the upgraded Cyborg version of Captain Circle! Honestly had so much fun with colour scheme and sculpting to make the boy's bonkers plan come together.

And of course what project post would be complete without the obligatory group shot?


Thanks for looking folks. Always a few more things to share on Sculpting for the Kids. Painted Elephant soon and I'll have to get Andy the Ant painted up too.

Nice work theCrowe.

However, I am not going to show this to Ms. Captain Brown or she will demand I made some.

Cheers,

CB

Amazing as always, but it’s the little details that I love. Like how Captain Circles eye and mouth on his left are slightly grumpy/evil so he fits in with Super Villain Robo-disk. Oh and it’s good to see that the Chief is getting in on Movember!

Thanks guys.

Quick update for today.

One elephant and one ant painted as instructed. Classic blue cartoon elephant and a cool rainbow burst for Andy.

Your lad was right, elephant was done, he looks good all in blue. Not as awesome as Andy the rainbow ant! Awesome sauce!

Absolutely brilliant, just an inspiration!

Rainbow Andy is gorgeous and of course a children's elephant has to be blue Love the ears on him, pink contrasts nicely with the blue.

Cute theCrowe.

Cheers,

CB

Rainbow ant! How could anyone say no to that

Thanks everyone. Glad the cute and the kiddie friendly still has a place in the gaming world. It just makes the grimdark all the grimmer and darker afterall.

Anyway. I'm back at it with another order from the boss baby.


Why have only one fire spook when your dad can make loads of fire spooks? More kitchen roll, anti-chip paint and greenstuff to come for these soon.

A bit of putty later.



Now all I need is a good tutorial for how to paint fire.

Man, they look cool!

I’m afraid I can’t claim the recipe as my own, and it takes a long time compared to some. The recipe is from Darren Latham’s YouTube Flames tutorial. I’ve written up the recipe in the spoiler
I did the flames on Pious Vorne this way and then I adapted it for the green flames the Chaos Cultist Firebrand. Like I say, it takes a while, but I’ve been really happy with the results

Thanks gobert, though that sounds a few stages beyond my painting chops. I'm not nearly as dedicated a painter as you. I'm a bit more of a base, wash, drybrush kind of a painter. Quick and tabletop effective. Not to mention I haven't bought a GW paint in over a decade. I'm like Yriel Yellow, I guess that's more or less yellowish than sunburst yellow... I'll maybe watch the video tutorial and translate it into my own bucket of colours.

Yeah, have a watch, the principles translate to pretty much any colour; brightest in recesses and nearest to the source, fading to black at the furthest/highest points. Admittedly it’s a lot more steps than I’d normally do. It would probably work well as a base of yellow, dry brush orange, red then black in reducing amounts

I thought it important to show this stage.



it's the first coat of yellow over gray primer. But it looks horrible, it's disheartening and I wanted any painter out there who's ever achieved this level of a beginning to know that they mostly start this way and not to give up. Persevere and have a bit of faith in yourself, it will get better. At least I'm aiming for better, fingers crossed. They can't get much worse than this anyway.

Yellow over grey would probably need a couple more coats to get decent coverage. If you’ve only got old citadel yellows you might be better off putting a layer of white or maybe bleached bone down first before going back to the yellow. My old Bad Moon yellow was so watery it would take about 5 coats for decent coverage. Sunburst Yellow would need at least 3 and Golden Yellow minimum of 2. Alternatively you could go for an orange first and then water down the yellow to act as a wash

Well here they are.


Don't know how many layers but after a while I just had to call it. Painting fire is not my strongest suit but there you go.

Hot sauce! They’re a fun looking bunch! Fire looks pretty decent

I second that the fire guys look neat.
The one with what appears to be ski goggles is my favorite.

Thanks guys. I'm not super fond of them: the goggles I agree look the best. I might just do the eyes of the other two a more flat white comic book style to try and tidy up their faces a bit.

No more plans for sculpting for the kids just yet but you never know. There are always more square folks and no shortage of ideas.
Though I have made a couple of sculpts of other soft toys in the boys collection. They've all been shared on my Burrows and Badgers project but I'll post a shot of Hedgee riding on Hooter on here some time. I need to find/fix Hedgee's sword.

Wow theCrowe! I don't know how I never stumbled upon any of your blogs before, but I just finished an amazing read through every post of this one. You are amazing, and a real inspiration for when I become a parent. I love the Hedgee's Heroes figures and how the game around them evolved. I'm very impressed with your sculptures and the speed you create them. I wish my cerberus had as good looking dog heads as R-mour dog. All the dog henchmen were so much fun too, as were the very hungry caterpillar sculpts.

I'll be checking out your other blogs soon too.

Thanks Syro_ I'm glad you enjoyed it and took the time to go through my bonkerz year of fakily fun.

My only other sculpting blog is the burrows and badgers one, everything else is scattered around dakka in either showcase or historical or fiction. Some 1:300 scale WW2 planes and Red Cross vehicles, some Goblins and maybe some Necromunda and 40k. It might test your dakka-fu to find it all but I hope you enjoy whatever you stumble upon. Thanks for your interest.

Thanks theCrowe, I only visit the P&M section, which is maybe why I missed seeing so much of your stuff, but it still confuses me about this blog and Badgers & Burrows (both of which I have now read through). I hope you have a great 2021 full of more great sculpts

Well I finally replaced Hedgee's lost sword. (I just haven't painted it yet)

And can happily share a pic of Hooter (an IKEA owl hand puppet) making good use of the magnet I hid in his back to give Hedgee a ride.

And also magnet related,

Slimon has abandoned his detritus base for pastures new, (and mosty metallic or magnet.) As I was requested to stick a little magnet in him too, because slugs can climb walls so why not, right. The other bugs are jealous.

I love it! It's great that you can use you skill to support your children's imaginations like this. It makes sense about Slimon being able to climb, I agree. The owl is cool looking too.

That is definitely fun with magnets and if you have seen Flushed away, it's essential that slugs can climb walls

Hedgee looks very heroic perched upon Hooter, great magnetising! Listen out for Simon providing a backing song or two!

Hi folks. Here's an update on what's going on in the Hedgeeverse.

Hedgee in Spaaaaaaaace!

Saturday has been spent bodging these together out of card and junk as directed by the kids. Hedgee's Heroes have their own little speeder while Rmour Dog and his doggie henchmen (including Sneaky Dog) have built a diabolical grabber ship with detachable Doggie-Pods on each wing and plenty of room in the back for large robot creations, captured kitties or whatever his bad doggie schemes require. Looking forward to throwing some colour on these soon.

Most story lines (not involving the capture of Kitty Mitty) revolve around this, the Big Bug Bus.

It's got a lovely caterpillar themed paint scheme with rainbow wings and has plenty of room inside for civilians in peril.

And then we have these guys. A new addition to the Hedgeeverse,The Green Brigade.

Eddie, Turtley and Croaks (who I haven't painted green yet) are a dedicated space adventuring rescue service. These guys required a vehicle and so were the first to be built and of course it didn't stop there.

And lastly, because we're in Spaaaace!

The Evil Triangle Alien got his very own U.T.O. (Unidentified Triangular Object.)

I love it! It's really fun seeing the ships you built with your kids. Hedgee and co. can have quite far ranging adventures now. See these reminds me a lot of when I taught a few of my students how to play and build stuff for GorkaMorka.

Hedgee never ceases to amaze! Your kids are great designers, it’s good to see they can turn your hand to spacecraft