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"Captain Chaplain's cereal... Nid tested, Broodlord approved."

That is just unreal. I have ot agree that that Bio-Titan has to be your first GW related sculpt. You look like this ain't your first rodeo. All things aside, however, you've turned out some crazy work!

Dude sell that thing (or a casting of it) to Forgeworld. Just sign something for like 1% of whatever income they make form it, and you'll be rolling in it within a year.

It really IS my first sculpt ever. The cool thing about starting large is even all the "intricate" detail is larger than the hand of one of the minis. My second project should be posted by the end of the week (and you can see part of it in one of the pictures in my P/M blog thread). The trick is making something small. Biotitan- time consuming, a NOSE... now that's a hard one. Then after a tiny mini a trygon tail seems pretty easy

I think my favourite part is the head/mouth/teeth.

GOOD Lord! About how many hours do you estimate it took for that Bio-Titan? Did you sculpt it in parts, or as a single piece? Where did you get the idea/ inspiration from for the Bio-Titan? Is it hard to keep up the motivation on projects like these?

Sorry for all the questions, I am very curious!

Wow....

We're gunna need a bigger boat.




Great work sir. A friend of mine has made his own trygon and after hearing bout Scuply I said I'd like to help make a Titan with him.

Now I see that it can be done amazingly well with talent.
Hope I can achieve something even half as good as yours. That's inspirational work.

The 1 think I don't really like about the bio-titan is the close up shots of it, as it looks hairy with the detail to me (but this is when it was unpainted), and then it starts to seem nurgle like, with the holeish things. However, I did not notice at all with the painted, so it does work well as armor flow, it was just something I noticed in the unpainted pictures.

Anyway, nice job, really nice sculpts, I really like the dynamic poses, especially with the turning bio-titan.

umm.


Wow, I think my head exploded.

How long do you typically allow the white stuff to dry before carving away? How do you keep other parts of it from falling off during the sculpting process?

WOW! you got awsome tallent in both modeling and painting! well done! cannot wait to see it finished!

thanks,

Matdragon

this model makes me eyes water, its so kick a$$

Apone wrote:Wow....

We're gunna need a bigger boat.

Screw that, Sarge! Need a bigger battle field!

That is just down right scary. What are you going to field it as? Or do you just place it on the table and see who still wants to play?

The working time for apoxie sculpt is about 2.5-3 hours, after which it is still cuttable with an exacto knife for another hour before fully hardening. I don't quite have the tallent to just go crazy and sculpt something out of a single piece and instead work in layers- building an initial shape as accurately as I can, letting it partially set so I can carve sharper features, then waiting for it to cure fully before moving on to another piece (see my warboss for an example).

The biotitan itself was slowly built up over a number of weeks, with the process being made slower as I was making a lot of it up as I went along.


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love the trygon fex, just about to start work on my 2nd one now, going to try and use the old DE dragon as a base mixed with a fex though.
also, this might interest you, have you thought about building a malanthrope yet?





just finished his nurgle style paint job.

I swear, the more I look at that last shot of the bio-titan on the shelf, the more it looks like it's gonna crawl down and start eating the dog.

if you ever concider making more bio titans, pm me prices
also, quick question, for things like that whats best to make them from?

Wow, nice!

I like how the plastic and sculpt mesh together.

it looks very sexy. I see there was alot of thought put into the conversion and I give you bonus points for sculpting.

If you are planning on building up a large project, I recommend going to http://www.avesstudio.com/ and picking up some apoxiesculpt. Good product AND cheap. For smaller things, I like using the good 'ol green stuff.

very nice trygon, and the biotitan is simply epic

Nice! I suppose I could add a malanthrope to my army.. but if I'm converting another carnifex, why not make another Trygon?

Just to echo, the Trygon is impressive.

The bio-titan is fracking immense.

Phazer

Bah, malanthrope's gonna have to wait... time to work on some raveners to go with it!

i wonder if that paintjob will work in green...

thanks for the inspiration delkins
and NICE biotitan

can i start worshiping that titan now
you put us to absolute shame

Jesus I'm beginning to think your the leader of the hive mind.

I'm speechless on the bio titan well not entire thought I'd go ahead and ask
"can i have one?"

I'm 90% sure my nid's will worship yours.

looks like a badass centipede
keep up the good work

Oh me oh my, that thing must eat gargants for breakfast. you should put pieces of bodies into its teeth...not to give you more work...but I think that everyone would appreciate that sort of thing.