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Thanks Ezki, it's good to hear from you.

I think my corn and fairy shows that I don't feel that I always need to outdo myself , but I totally get what you're saying. Thank you for your kind words, I am happy with the way my sculpting has been improving. I guess we just all improve and focus our energies in different ways. I know that I don't paint minis as well as you, and I expect that I don't have the vision to kit-bash as creatively either.

I am at a loss here - which snoozel to chose for the best nose, the underwater one or a gnome one. And congratulations on that find - it may indeed be a golden nugget of greenstuff-rolling!

Good luck and good time to You, Syro!

Heh heh, Thanks Wirecat Looks like you noticed that I gave the gnome a unique nose.

Work was rough this week, but i have been anxious to get back to "Sculptember", I basically spent the whole day sculpting which was a lot of fun.

I finished the tree for September 7th (I'm looking forward to painting this one)




I finished sculpting the hand for September 15th which I plan to turn into a D&D spell effect


And I am really close to finishing my Dog Knight for September 1st's dog:




I only started on my Ent for September 13th today, but I am having a lot of fun making it. At the moment it's fun how creepy it looks:

Dog Knight looks amazing, like some 70's Hanna Barbara character, love him!

heh heh, Thanks Viterbi, I'm glad you like Dog Knight With some pauldrons to make a space marine proud, Dog Knight is now finished.



I also sculpted the face for my ent/treant



And as soon as it finishes curing, I will have actually started and finished a sculpt on the correct day for "Sculptember" the Bat for September 20th. I also made a base for it today.


Thanks for stopping by.

I am loving how my ent/treant is turning out. The paint hasn't even dried yet, but I wanted to share the most recent progress.


This is made from nothing but a few bamboo skewers & tooth picks, styrofoam and a small piece of cardboard for bulk, and a lot of hot glue.


The details on hot glue are hard to see, so as I was building it up and carving the wood grain with the hot glue gun tip, I tried out my new black artist's ink. I have never used artists ink before.

The Ent is terrific! The proportions are very 'natural' for such a fabulous creature, exactly how it would look, if real. It's amazing the texture you've been able to convey with it as well. Really cranking through Sculptember!

Thanks Meer_Cat
Even though I sculpted a face for the ent, I'm thinking of making it removable, maybe magnetize it? I'm liking the look of that hollow where the face goes more and more as is.

Gotta echo Meer_Cat, the Ent is looking great! Maybe put an owl in, if the face is not on

Thanks Viterbi, I have to say, I like that owl idea I may have to do that. Too many more good idea like that and my ent will have as many magnatized swappable parts as a 40k dread

I have some more finished sculptures. A gibbering mouther, Bastet as ancient Egyptian goddess, an ancient Egyptian looking guy to accompany her, and a pig-mermaid.

I had left over blue paint, so I painted the mouther while I was working on it, to see the texture more easily. It will eventually be brown. I found a bunch of thorn bush trimmings, and trimmed some thorns as a crafting supply, I think they work very well as fangs.




Bastet and friend



Pig-mermaid

and WIP


Hopefully it is okay to do some conversions too. Chimera is one of the Sculptember themes, so just like the last one I made I am dismembering cheap animal toys.



Thanks for stopping by.

That ent is just pure awesomeness!
Its so cool to see the step by step transition from the bare bones structure to the painted result.

That chimera is lookin pretty scary!
Cool idea to combine those animal toys.

Thanks Ezki I'm thinking the giraffe head will work well as a base to sculpt a dragon head. And thank you, I am thrilled how well the Ent is coming out. I'm still working on it, but it is a slow process. I collected some small branching twigs and I am flocking them for the ent's leafy canopy.

For Sculptember 25's "eye" I decided to finish the spectator I had been sculpting. This was an experiment in what it would look like if I gave the whole thing a really wrinkly texture.




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I was inspired by Cam's genius idea of making his flexable hobby helper with alligator clips and a flexible tripod, so I bought some alligator clips too. When I found they were steal, I started using magnets to stick them to my lamp as a drying space for the flocked branches for my ent.

That hobby hack with alligator clamps and magnets is really cool!
And crinkly beholder is fun. Telling the young beholders how he still remembers the time, when he was a smooth floating eye, guarding the dungeon...

Some great sculpting going on, love the Ent!

Giraffe+dragon... why do I think of kirin?

Lots and lots of great stuff here, Syro. Good luck with all these projects, they deserve to be brought to completion! I am particularly stirred by that ent face/mask. It is so close to dozens and dozens of wooden sculptures, scattered here in local woods...

Curse that virus, I should have run around and brought some fresh pictures to make a point. :(

The alligator clips and a flexible tripod is a great idea. I just use paper clips on a string.

Have to keep Ms. Captain Brown from seeing those plastic animals chopped in pieces.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for all the comments everyone

@Viterbi: Thanks, the wrinkly spectator did turn out looking quite ancient, didn't it I like the back story you came up with for him.
@aku-chan: Thank you I hope everyone will enjoy the Ent once I finish it.
@Wirecat: no worries, it's not worth taking a risk with the virus. I'm glad to hear that it look a lot like tree faces. I'm definitely not going to finished by the end of September, but I do feel driven to try to complete all of these, so thank you for your encouragement.
@Captain Brown: I agree CB, I'm seriously considering making one like Cam's set up when I get back home to my true crafting area. The paper clips on a string isn't a bad idea for drying stuff, it reminds me of a clothesline. And yeah, it might be distressing how often I dismember small animal toys, Toy Story fans must hate me

Last night after work and this morning have mostly be devoted to painting. I can't progress on one sculpt until I paint what I have done so far. My favorite paint job is having painted my miniature potted tree:


I painted the Ent's face to try to catch it up to where I am with the rest of the body.


And base coated the gibbering mouther to the correct color, rather than blue.


I am continuing the slow process of adding layers of flock to my Ent and waiting for them to dry.

Haha, I was wondering if one of these sculpts for the Sculptember would be a Spectator or a Beholder. You did not dissapoint

That face looks even better with some paint on!

Heh heh, thanks Ezki. You know me too well, I was considering making another beholder for "eye", but since I had a partly finished spectator I decided to do that instead.

I am very close to finishing my Ent, but unfortunately I dropped my entire container of homemade flock onto the carpet yesterday


The Ent earlier this week:


Also being that it is now October, I guess Sculptember is officially over. I was able to finish sculpting 14 of the themes for Sculptember (group shot below). I have another 5-6 in the WIP stage. I'm thinking of continuing and completing all (or most) of the Sculptember themes in the coming months. Maybe I'll make it my goal to finish a certain number in October. I also have special 40k plans for 4 of the themes, which I will probably take longer on, the rest have been fantasy.

Back row: Dog, cat, deep sea nose, gnome, mermaid-pig (capibara), Ancient Egyptian style man, and tree.
Middle row: fairy, ear of corn, Bigby's hand, bat, Bastet (Egyptian goddess).
Front: gibbering mouther and spectator

Really cool sculpts man, fair play for doing as much as you did. One a day is an insane amount to ever finish! I love the dog knight, it seems very studio ghibli-esque to me

Thanks boundless I agree about how insane it would be to finish one per day. The original concept was,each day, to rough out a sculpture of the theme for 50 minutes. And then return to finish the ones that inspire you. It's originally intended for regular clay, I think. With epoxie putties, I wouldn't be able to work for 50 minutes anyway and it would be a waste of money.

As a change of pace, I finally went back and tried out Frost Grave for the first time today. I was so excited about half a year ago, but I got so caught up trying to have enough stuff to play while abroad that I burned myself out and always found something else I still needed. The last of which was giant rats (which I just made a few days ago with origami. Below is the battle report for the first mission from the solo adventure book "Dark Alchemy". Please forgive all the rules mistakes.

Here is the set up with a very eclectic collection of terrain. You can have 3 soldiers from your retinue join your wizard, I brought the knight (Dog knight), a theif (a hobbit), and a construct. I used my fleshy helbrute as the alchemical monstrosity (which I think is fitting).


I misread the rules, and thought the alchemical monstrosity would move to guard one of the doors. So the beginning isn't too interesting. For the first three turns my wizard failed her role to summon a demon. So there was just a lot of movement and picking up treasure.



On the third turn, I rolled a poor enough initiative to spawn a giant rat. On the fourth turn my wizard ran up and I thought crushed it with her staff in a single attack (Turns out this was a rules mistake).



Nearly the entire warband carried treasure toward the one door, while the construct guarded the entrance to the rat's nest.


There was a 25% chance it would be the right door, but it wasn't so the band would have to bypass the alchemical monstrosity, and the wizard was finally able to summon her demon (spectator).

This was when another rat spawned, which was easily defeated by the construct (Using correct rules this time if I remember correctly),


This was when I reread the rules and found that the alchemical monstrosity would move to engage the closest enemy in line of sight.



The first few turns of combat both the demon and alchemical monstrosity were unable to hurt each other. The warband took this opportunity to hustle passed the monster while it was engaged.



The knight's armor protected him from the waving tentacles while they hurried passed but the thief was slapped for 4 points of damage. The wizard moved to the far side of some terrain to avoid damage and take advantage of one of her spells.

That was when I read that she can't do that spell while carrying treasure, so she had to run back.



By this point, the alchemical monstrosity had taken heavy damage. The bonus the construct gave the demon was helping. The wizard was able to get passed the tentacles without injury. The same turn she exited the monstrosity was defeated.


The hero earned 75 XP from this mission, and in the treasure found 50 gold coins, a magic scroll of control undead, a new spell, and 8 potions.

Congrats to the Warband on a successful adventure!

Very nice batrep and love how the Ent is coming along!

Frostgrave is great if opponents are a problem for you pick up Perilous Dark the solo play and campaign design supplement or have a look at Rangers of Shadow Deep which is a pure solo play game.

@DJJazzyJeff: Thanks JazzyJeff, I hope I would have done as well if I had known the rules better. I studied them pretty well whenever it was that Osprey Press gave the rulebook away from free because of Covid-19, but I think that was about half a year ago now. I'll probably try to keep momentum going and do the other two adventures in Dark Alchemy soon.

@Viterbi: Thanks Viterbi I'm still slowly progressing on the flocking of my Ent. I wish my PVA glue would dry faster.

@Llamahead: Thanks Lllamahead, yes I'm playing all alone. I have Dark Alchemy, and a sample section of Perilous Dark. Thanks for the info about Rangers of Shadowdeep, if I get really into Frost Grave with no one to play with, I'll check it out.

Frostgrave is, hands down, the best game I've played in the last ten years (number two is Dreadball). I've yet to play it solo, but I've had a blast every time I've played against, well, anyone. Rangers is pretty fun, too-- not unlike old school D&D, at least if you play the published scenarios. I think you'll have a good time with this game(s).

Wonderful Ent! It is difficult to judge fantasy with respect to inspiration, but You did a great job on it and its alien character. Congratulations!

And congratulations on all the other things You've did last month! And on giving a try to Frostgrave too. This game has its quirks (which one doesn't?) but I can't disagree with JoshInJapan - it is enjoyable and different!

@JoshInJapan: Thanks Josh, I do wish I was back home with all my figures and terrain. i think I would enjoy it more than kludging together a board and trying to sculpt or proxie everything I need. I am looking forward to continuing to try it out.

@Wirecat: Thanks Wirecat, I'm really happy with my Ent, I think it's one of the best pieces I have made this year. I am continuing to work on more pieces from the Sculptember list. Currently the sculpts I am doing for "gorilla", "cerberus", "woman", "chimera", and "centaur" are all WIP.

The Ent always feels like am about to finish, but it always needs more flocking to look better, so I continue to build its canopy with flock. I figure I'll wait to reveal the Ent when it's completely done.

Congratulations on a highly productive Sculptember! I can't finish anything lately and here you are with a sculpt per day plus a special project. Bravo Sir! Bravo!

Thanks Meer_Cat Don't be too hard on yourself though. I have long periods of time where I just look through my collection and bits imagining ideas without doing anything, with all that happened to your pieces in your apartment there's nothing wrong with gathering yourself. Also it might not be finished yet, but you have really been moving on those four quadrants for your board.

They aren't much to look at yet, but here are my WIP of Sculptember sculpts that I mentioned in my last post.