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You da man ambull...you should listen to the black dahlia murder while working your magic...the machine spirit will be sated and pleased...

RDizzle wrote:Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou i was short on expensive tools and your making of those tools was a life saver

I find that homemade tools are often much better, and there's no inhibitions about using them and abusing them. The tools I've made have worn into slightly different shapes since I started using them. I'll just have to make more, but it's easy and very customizable. I've been thinking about shaping some pieces of metal to use for sculpting tools, I'll get around to it at some point... (maybe in time for the phantasmagoric Zoat sculpt!)

I hope to be tackling some more later today, some iffy areas of the 'shoulder' I've been putting off.

Ambull wrote:It is clear to me that at this stage the finger is inexplicably infected (probably with the plague of Nurgle).

Well I was gonna say Syphilis, but according to this it is the taint of "They-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named, who we shall speak of with reverence and fear, lest we invoke their abyssal horde of lawyers.". This taint is conveyed within the corruption that is green-stuff.

You should pee on it, that works well. Also try salting your testes before bed every evening to chase away evil spirits. Otherwise swing a dead cat over your head in a clockwise motion for 777 rotations. One can never be too careful.

Since we are talking about cool critters from 40k art I am currently working on this:

Which is supposed to be more like this:

Which is meant to be a cross between this:

This:

and this:


Okay sorry for the self-gratifying interrupt. Go Ambull!!

umbebruno32 wrote:You da man ambull...you should listen to the black dahlia murder while working your magic...the machine spirit will be sated and pleased...

What's up Battle Brother Umbebruno, Yeah, if I did that I'd started banging my head so hard I'd lose grip on the tools, there would be Green Stuff everywhere.
I was listening to Mercyful Fate while touching up some areas last night. No pics: I made very subtle additions to make the two halves fit better, and to make the forms match up from front to back so that in the final castings only a little bit of filling will be required to make a seamless one-piece model.

I'm determined to make a push forward and get this thing really done, perhaps even by the end of August. We shall see.

A few pics from when I worked on connecting up the two halves. These pics show before I really tightened up the seams, I simply rubber-banded the two halves together.

In pink is where I needed to pay special attention, to get the 'flow' right of the lines:


This was a problem, the tube-like structure that runs from the Ambull's face up over his carapace did not have a nice arc to it, as shown by the arrow. I have since cleaned this up, reducing the indent-effect (pics to follow):


And before long I noticed how goofy this thing looked with a rubber-band around it:

Simply gorgeous - and very nearly there, though it looks like you're aiming for absolute perfection

Excellent. You should try making a simple two part mold. Then you could have an Ambull army.

Looks great.

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Wow brilliant work. I wish i could work greenstuff as well as you are. Maybe i should just try some home made tools like yours and a few tutorials. anyway, good luck with the rest of the model.

Ambull 'six-pack,' Hey, have you been working out...?

Added a little texture to the belly-region.


I need to smooth up a few of the bumps, I want to make a texture that will be fairly nice to paint (even though this area will be pretty obscured when the fig is assembled - which means I'll have to pay special attention to the back as that will certainly be visible)


Slow progress this week but I'm getting there.

Cast Please!

@superscenic: Check out the fluff book for 40K called 'Xenology' specifically look at the section on the Umbra, looks ridiculously uncanny to the art/models you have made!

@OP, gotta say this project is coming along nicely, you have some skill with the GS there!

A little bit more texture on the belly, I'm inching along. Actually I could probably start to plot out how I'll make the mold for this guy soon. I'm really itching to get some paint on some Ambulls.

Great GS work.. very impressive and nice tip as to the cheap tools!

Some more bulking out of the abdomen area, I'm finally getting the hang of this bumpy, warty texture, although it will move more towards a scale-like texture on the back and top. I hope to do a little more tonight.

I'm also getting a lot out of this experience in the way of what tools I would want/need moving forward. Seeing the strengths and weaknesses of my simple implements has been inspiring and I believe that I'll be making some more advanced and permanent sculpting tools very soon. If I do so I will put a separate tutorial up (one more thing on life's big to-do list).

Anyway, here are the recent pics, showing the body of this guy take on some character. As always, thank you for checking it out!

These pics show the application of some texturing to the back. More will need to be done to accentuate it a little more, but I'm pretty satisfied with it.



You can see some black marks on the sculpt: this is where I've marked off where I want certain things to go before placing the GS on, in this case I made sure the forms were generally symmetrical before actual sculpting began, helps me keep in-line but also allows me to know how far I can deviate to make the thing look more 'organic.'



I don't think I'm going to make my personal deadline of finishing before the end of August, but there are some days left so we shall see.

Just gets better and better - bravo!

Thats pretty inspiring work. Thanks for sharing with the community. 40k is in pretty serious need of up dating in so many areas. I for one would like to see some revamped genestealer cultists. They would make a beautiful Ig command squads. I think for you next project you should sell your house to buy enough gs to make a void whale!

Don't worry about your deadline too much, we want to see you finish this in as good a fashion as you started in

The only issue I have is that I'm getting bored with all the 'excellent's, outstanding's and 'awesome's I'm giving out to blogs as good as this

Keep up the good work

Kick ass!!. I wonder do you think modelling skills in clay are transferable to greenstuff. Would love to give it a go. Its a whole different scale of work though...

weetyskemian44 wrote:Kick ass!!. I wonder do you think modelling skills in clay are transferable to greenstuff. Would love to give it a go. Its a whole different scale of work though...

What type of clay? I would say absolutely, the scale is crazy and takes some time to get used to but I think you will be really surprised at how GS handles, I had used earth clays in the past, and polymer clays like Sculpey and Fimo more recently for some basic things, but GS is THE stuff, I can see making basic shapes and under-structures with polymer clays, but the GS is the best for detail and keeping the shape you want it to without deforming.

cool. will buy and experiment. I sculpt in earthenware - see my avatar and the link at the bottom of my post. smallest I've ever gone for is about 3 inches so It'll be a whole new world of tiny for me. But I see what your saying about GS being easier to handle - earth clay crumbles so easy.
Thanks for the info

weetyskemian44 wrote:cool. will buy and experiment. I sculpt in earthenware - see my avatar and the link at the bottom of my post. smallest I've ever gone for is about 3 inches so It'll be a whole new world of tiny for me. But I see what your saying about GS being easier to handle - earth clay crumbles so easy.
Thanks for the info

Holy Cow... I just reviewed the photos in your facebook link, Wow, Very nice work, very cool concepts and execution, gorgeous glazing! My advice is get the GS and play around, you will be in control of the medium in less than a minute and start rocking out from there.
It will keep its shape but it does have some flex to it, which I find to be beneficial.

Thanks! I will definitely give it a go. Start with something biggish like an agre

weetyskemian44 wrote:Thanks! I will definitely give it a go. Start with something biggish like an agre

Ha! That's why I started with a 'mini' that's actually a bit bigger than a standard 28mm humanoid. Get some GS, let me know how you like it. I checked out more of your pics, absolutely awesome stuff.

I got some more details on the back and sides last night, little scales, bumps, trying to transition the different areas together:




... getting there ...

Coming along amazingly. Can't wait to see it all together and painted.

*drool* i want one it looks so good!

I was wandering around solelegends when i found this beaut

http://www.sodemons.com/gwmuseum/ambull-gw.jpg

It's so cute! :>

I really do believe they are quite adorable creatures.

I should be posting some pics again soon, and I'm very close to finishing this little devil up.