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Nice augmented brute it is!

There are so many things I don't follow here and there that any heads up is appreciated. That obelisk is slightly too necronish. But very cool nevertheless. Lighting has turned out great and with such basing it is quite universal. I mean, it could blend with lots of decorations...

Thanks Wirecat, I'm really happy with how the helbrute is turning out. I do jump around topics a lot with forgetting to update the title of what I'm working on. The League of Extraordinary Riveters terrain contest, was to make something out of a drink container. When I saw this water bottle, it looked so perfect to make into a necron building. The obelisk is a piece of necron terrain, so hopefully being too necronish is a good thing I've never made any necron terrain before, so some day I'll have to make some more to go with it.

Here are new additions to my helbrute, I really like the look of the exposed shoulder muscles and the bird skull tip to the tentacle (sorry for the terrible lighting, I don't have much to work with here in Hong Kong).

Some really great sculpting there Syro, especially the heads on the previous page.

 Syro_ wrote:

Cheers,

CB

Very nice, great muscles on that brute !

Woah! That light up terrain is amazing. I do love interesting bottles. The beholder family growing even larger is nice to see - gotta admit I find them kind of cute though. And kudso for sculpting even more than usual.

The goblin fort is a great bit also.

Nice start on the Hellbrute, excited to see it come together!

Syro, these are fantastic! I love the diversity of materials, and your integration of putty, green stuff, plastic, wire, foil, etc. seems pretty smooth. I'm excited to see those big guys with paint!

Wow, thank you for all the responses everyone. It makes me happy to hear from all of you.

@Captain Brown: Thanks Captain Brown, I am extremely proud of those heads. My bloodthirsters are a slow burning project. Partially because the more I like what I do with them, the more I worry that I'm going to mess them up. But even more, with eight of them there's too many plans to keep in my head, so for the first time ever in my crafting career I'm drawing concept sketches for their poses. This will take a while as I'm more into sculpting than drawing, but I am still working on them.

@KernelTerror: Thank you! That's great hearing that from someone with such a wonderfully crafted chaos force.

@kestral: Thank you kestral. I have to admit I think the green beholder is cute too, I don't think the peach-orange one is though. And thank you, I've been pushing myself more toward sculpting since there is no room for crafting supplies here in Hong Kong. I do feel that the focus is helping improve my sculpting skills.

@Viterbi: Thank you, I'm very excited by how the helbrute is turning out, so it's getting my main focus right now, and should progress quickly. I worked more on it tonight, but nothing photo worthy.

@MacPhail: Thank you so much MacPhail, I do like to try out a lot of different materials. There's paper mache bulking out the torsos of a a few of the bloodthirsters, and a big chuck of EPS foam in the torso of the helbrute, too

I've continued to work, but nothing worth photgraphing. I added a few more muscles to the helbrute and did a lot of gap filling. I worked on an additional weapon for the helbrute, and continued working on two more spectators (mini beholders from D&D). When they are finished, it will bring my collection of spectators up to 5. I don't need more than one, but I really like spectators, and I like making them.

The lights really bring that necron obelisk to life!
And great work on the hellbrute so far. He will be a mean best when he's done!

Even though you only need one spectator, building something that you like is reason enough to do so.
And they all are cool. Aaand we will never get fed up seeing more spectators!

Thanks Ezki, I'm glad you and several others like the light with the necron building, I was personally disappointed that it wasn't really lighting up the upper half of the building. Thanks about the helbrute, and especially about the spectators. I'm glad you won't be getting board of them.

I love those heads you've sculpted. Really Oldhammer feel to them.

Thanks, Fifty. I hope to make the bodies of each of those bloodthirsters well enough to suit the heads.

I have done some more work on the helbrute, and finished connecting the last of the tubes to its back.

Looks cool. Lots and lots of upgrades.

Looking at that muscle tissue gave me an idea - if I get a time this week to test it... Thanks for inspiration anyway!

That is turning into quite the conversion Syro_

Cheers,

CB

Wow, that is so stunning even at the WIP stage!

Thank you Wirecat, Captain Brown, and Viterbi. I'm glad all of you like it. I wanted to make a mostly flesh helbrute to use all the fleshy bitz I cut off the other helbrutes I was converting. As I went, I felt more and more inspired, leading to something I'm very happy with. Also Wirecat, I hope I get to see what your idea.

I've finally started working on the front. It's not exposed muscle there, but hopefully still a good look for the model.

That Hellbrute is shaping up to be a delightfully gross model. It looks like it will have a serpentine body rather than legs-- am I reading that right?

That Hellbrute is ripped, maybe Chaos isn't that bad after all Nice work, I love a project unfolding with all the steps.

@JoshInJapan: Thanks Josh! About the serpentine body, the answer is "kind of". The brute has the one finished leg that it's standing on, but the leg is very folded up and organic. I have a magnet glued in where the other leg will go, so it can be removed and replaced with other stuff like tentacles or the like. (A thick snake tail is a cool idea for that, thanks).

@Viterbi:

Sorry for the long absence, teaching remotely keeps me very busy and exhausted. What little hobby time I have has been taken up by a sculpture contest.

I have finished a small milestone of having finishing bulking out the helbrute's shoulder so it looks more attached to the body.



Thanks for stopping by. I'll have to remember to take a pic of my ever growing collection of spectators.

Chaotic - and rightly so. Very senseless, almost to the GW point.

Having toyed with similar texture for muscles, I may have a suggestion for Your future projects. Use a thicker blade, maybe even get a thick piece of hard charcoal as used by artists. Or make a "blade" out of ice-cream stick, 2mm should be enough to sharpen it with a knife a little, plus the wood gets wet and stays wet, less sticking to the greenstuff. And when You draw the texture, not just drag the edge over the putty, but press and roll it a little. This will not only produce a single groove but push the material sideways, creating a more rounded, tube-like shape. I will try to illustrate this next week.

Sorry to hear about the job, hope it gets easier with the remote teaching over time!

But nice work on the Helbrute, it doesn't look a happy creature

@Wirecat: Thank you for the advice Wirecat. I was mostly using the side of a pin, and the angled wedge color shaper. It did bother me that I wasn't getting a more rounded appearance at times.

@Viterbi: Thanks Viterbi. I agree that he doesn't look to happy It might be all the exposed muscle with no skin, of that he is going into battle more or less naked, with no armor.

As mentioned before, I really like the Dungeons and Dragons monster "spectator" and I like making them. Here are all the spectators I have sculpted since moving to Hong Kong in August. I have experimented and tried different things out on them, such as different kinds of armature and other techniques. The one on the right is still WIP

Syro_

Sculpting the of the helbrute is coming along.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown, I really need to get around to making the other leg and I could pretty much call it done. It would be fun to make a few more custom weapon attachments too.

Spectators = lesser beholders ??

Hellbrute certainly taking shape - I think he's grumpy because he has to hop everywhere, and I like that

I think he's grumpy because he has to hop everywhere, and I like that

Could be, Iike your thought on it

And yes you are exactly right, spectators are a form of lesser beholder.

Hellbrute is definitely taking shape! I'm afraid of it already.

These times certainly challenge our hobby time.

I teach a youth department at a voluntary fire department for one hour a week (currently remotely as well). That's exhausting for me already, especially creating all the materials instead of teaching with the actual equipment.
I can only imagine how exhausting that is when you do it full time(?).

The spectators are coming along nicely. Always loved all your variety of beholders, I never thought about differences in the species until I saw your thread .

The hellbrute has skipped leg and arm day and has really focused on pecks and lats . He is looking great, nice work using the sedition wars? Arm.

@Ezki: Thanks Ezki. Yes teaching full time is incredibly exhausting during Corona virus. No job has ever worn me out me, so thank you for your sympathy.

@Theophony:

The hellbrute has skipped leg and arm day and has really focused on pecks and lats

That's a very funny and accurate way to put it. Thanks about the beholders also, they are a lot of fun to make, and to add variety too (which is luckily supported by the lore). And you have a really good eye for minis and bitz, the helbrutes arm is exactly an arm from Sedition Wars.

Speaking of beholders, I hope it's okay for me to be posting stuff here that I have shared elsewhere. About two weeks ago, I finished making Xanathar the beholder for a Dungeons and Dragons miniature sculpting competition. I only had time to work on him during weekends because of work, but luckily it's a two month long contest. I think it may be the best monster and sculpture I have made.






Here are the WIP pics






I won't be able to paint this guy until I get home to America and all my hobby supplies, but I'm looking forward to when I do.