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 weetyskemian44 wrote:
A frame? I think I know what you mean.

The way I thought about it with my table is that you need something to attach the planks to otherwise, what's holding the middle ones up...
It only needs to be a rectangle that's slightly smaller than the tabletop and I put the legs on the inside of the corners.

The Skull looks amazing, really really good.
Plate works well, good vision.

and look forward to what the person becomes.

I see what you mean now Dr H - Googling "rustic table helped.

The armature has been coated in a first layer of muscle. I can confirm that it will look roughly human. Much work remains. I think I will make it a him and he will be an armoured fighter with shield and sword.

Anyway I'm back to painting now. Hengis the druid, a rare and collectable model, courtesy of graven and Vangart Soulspiller, chaos champion 1987

Excellent progress! Looking forward to what grows from that armature.

He looks like a duellist / fencer! Great start, Weety! Excited to see where this goes

Thanks casey and scarper. Taking it slow - perhaps there is a tutorial? I have very limited internet or I would have watched some already! Green stuff is hard to work with - I have some vasaline to stop it sticking to my fingers and a cocktail stick to shape it. I probably need more tools. What do you use for shaping GS scarper?

I suggest every hobbyist should have colour shapers on hand for sculpting. They make a massive difference, you'll ve amazed. Also, I only every use water for lubrication, I've never had a problem as long as the tool and GS are both wet. My other tip would be to have as many reference images as you can find. Forewarning: Depending on what you're sculpting this can involve some strange image searches and some mental scarring. I'll never search, 'nude obese male art reference' again without checking the safe search filter is on first.

Lol - don't worry I have a strong stomach! fat naked men hold no fear for me. If I was doing zombies though I might draw the line at researching real corpses.

Colour shapers - I will check at the local art shop.

collminiornot has some good tutorials and having read them I realise that all the pros use cocktail sticks so I'm halfway there!

Nice painting Weety. Good job. Like the subtle colours of the druid dude and the not-so-subtle colours of the chaos dude.

I second colour shapers. I've only recently got some and they are awesome. Be aware that they come in different stiffnessess which can make them useful for different jobs.

But can't go wrong with a pointy (cocktail) stick for most things.

Haha, yeh, it was what the fat naked dudes were doing that had me vomiting though! With my Nork Warboss I really felt like I needed some corpse references but I was a bit wary so I settled for a few other things. Animal offal and zombies from films mainly but I had a quick look at rotten wounds although I didn't save the images. I think that's all the realism I require and can stomach if I'm honest.

Toothpicks are good but I don't use them anymore, I made some similar tools by attaching some really thin wires to the ends of old brushes, they are much smaller in some cases and non porous.

I often imagine some NSA spook in an office somewhere trying to make sense of the random gak we search for on the internet. "So this user has looked up gay fat porn, gun specs, rotting wounds and autopsy photos, we've got one sick puppy here".
Did you hear about the family who where interested in buying a pressure cooker and a rucksack? They got raided, but they just wanted to cook some lentils and go hiking.

Hi Dr H. I love painting chaos warriors - I use the goblin knights from 'Labyrinth' for my inspiration.

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Ha ha, Labyrinth. That's a film full of inspiration.

Love the cheese Weets! This is gonna be badass! Plates? Without a miniature clay wheel to spin them.....maybe sculpt one then make a press mold? Better yet, why not make them eat right from a cutting board?

I vote you urn the armature into a waiter for the table. Win bottle pouring out he right hand, and big server tray in the left. He'd work great with your table.

Haha, yeh, I'm one of the few pro being watched but I sometimes worry about how many blips I put on the radar. I think any half cocked intelligence investigator could find my Dakka account and stuff which likely vindicate my activity if it got to that stage though. I bet miniature hobbyists are some of the worst offenders in that sense.

I see the link to Labyrinth, very nice! Dark Crystal was 1000 times better though!

Great druid! love the work there.

Dstien - I am waiting for an engineer to build me that tiny wheel. I guess if I just linked a tiny electric motor to a tiny wheel I would be set - but I can't be assed so I will bodge it. I'm glad you love the cheese! Its totally skyrim. A lot of the basic foods from skyrim are easily sculptable.

Theophoney this is an obscure hope - but you never know whats gona happen at this stage.

Casey - hope realism prevails. But the system is exploitable for the proto-fascists if it pans out that way. Think about what happened in other places. But the important thing to remember is that dark crystal rocked

Graven you have enriched me. I thank your awesome stockpile and generosity.

I have just watched the evil dead 2. Hilarious but if you take it seriously one of the most disturbing films ever made.

Have I been here before - I know i've visited your pages often to drool over your stuff but not sure if I've commented??

If not, I just need to say 'Old Skool' for the win - your models and painting style really makes me feel nostalgic for the good old days, it's like flicking through the pages of classic White Dwarf issues...

Hi Ruglud! I reckon you've commented before. Thanks for stopping by again.

The Next floor plan is finished! And my table. I think the next table will have books, a money bag and a goat skull. Or maybe it will be a bookshelf. Having a lot of fun with this. I think I've found my calling in life.

That's awesome weety... just awesome.

It's looking fantastic! I like the turned over stool. It makes you think that three dudes just got into an argument at the table and then stepped outside to settle it.

Seems like someone ought to be pinching their food while they are away. It must be an honorable wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Awesome.
The floor is nice. Good splash of colour.
The table looks great.
The things on the table look great.
and the stools...I love the stools. Very cool.

Cheers! Its been fun.

There is definitely a future in this - if I get fed up with warhammer I could even scale it up and make dolls house stuff - there's money in that. I just love constructing miniature worlds. You know what I mean or you wouldn't all be here! wouldn't it just be great to quit my stupid job and make stuff for a living.

I won't quit the day job just yet though...

Very cool indeed and def consider doll's houses as an outlet for your talents!

That's not a bad idea really. I need a job as well...

Wonderful looking floor Weety! I often think that terrain is among the hardest things to paint - it takes a lot of dedication to make a tiled surface look right, and its over such a large surface too.

I would second colour shapers - I use them a lot, as well as occasionally a metal sculpting tool and some push pins as well. Personally I don't like vaseline - I lubricate with water when I can, or sometimes by putting the tools in my mouth(!). As long as they stay wet, all is good!

I'm really keen to see where you go with the mannequin - I've not done too much from armatures myself, but it's something I've been meaning to get into for a while!

You've got all the skills for it scarper - just got to bring them together.


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More floor plans! I'm on a roll tonight.

Briefly slipped back into sci-fi to apply the NMM technique to a Mutant Psychic Scrunt. I still lack some of the refinement I've seen on some peoples nmm. But its Ok so long as you don't zoom in.

I don't know what it is, I don't know what it's doing to/with that skinned cat-alike, but it's nicely painted.

ditto

Fantastic as per usual.