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Hi guys.

Here are some better pictures of the forge chamber and side entrance.






Cave entrance




Closeup on tomb seal.




Forge smoke close ups






Runic doorway to forge chamber




Bronze steel door to side entrance




Side entrance door (rock work is unfinished)



Hope you enjoy!

I cant hold my creativity in to many cool ideas im going to build my own board.
My version of the isstvan dropsite massacre.

Awesome! I really love to see that WIP! Do make a thread please.

When I finally (!) hit the lottery, I'm totally going to commission a board from you!

I have to say... every single time I'm amazed by the atmosphere and presence of your dioramas.

I'm still in the design process and gathering materials but my plans are a huge 9 or 12 inch tall fortress at one end/side its going to be 4' by 4' hole in the board from orbital bombardment providing access to the zone motalis below.
Lots of small hill fortifications connected by bridges.

Brilliant board, so inspirational.

Looks amazing as always!

Incredible, inspiring stuff

Hi guys thanks for all the nice comments again!

And I'm looking forward to being commissioned by you Alpharius!

@e.earnshaw: That will be a massive undertaking then! Maybe I can help you with Idea's as when you start the wip. It certainly sounds very epic... oohhh thats where the first E stand for right?

Epic Earnshaw.



oh here are a few more pictures:


Here's a Closeup on the shoulderplate from Puppetswar Anubis Termos range. It's the perfect Fenrisian wolfs head lamp hood:




Another shot on the entrance to the Tomb cave with the collapsed wall section.




And here is another shot on the forge chamber where you can see the smoke rising through the venting shaft past the Fenrisian wolves head lights into the great hall.



Here's my planning schedule:
- This week I will be building the general construction for the big mountain, and I'll be working on finishing detail parts and lights for the great hall and facade (not much time because I'm going away for the weekend celebrating my girlsfriends birthday; am looking forward to that).
- Hope to start on finishing the rock work of the big mountain by the end of next week.
- During the two weeks after I will be painting and placing the vegetation and weathering.
- The End for part 1 of 3. Then I will be moving my board to my uncle for some pro photo shooting. (can hardly wait for that moment)

So still allot to do but the end is near. End THEN it on to the second board which will be the valley river with the defensive points and the crashed FW Storm eagle. Which I'm really looking forward into painting.

Cheers!

Ok I'm going to do a thread on dakka on my newly inspired isstvan dropsite board. Sigh starting next week finish October/November 2015 yey! I will do a small thread scheming on plans ideas welcome look out for it on Wednesday Thursday time ish meh might be Saturday.

Looking awesome as usual,

only thing I might change if its possible, is the smoke, when it hits the underside of the roof it seems to simply disappear with only a whisp coming round the edge and up. It would be awesome to have a tiny amount sort of 'curling' under the roof and fading out.

Other than that looking totally awesome.

oh and i saw a comment earlier about your use of bendy straws.. I can understand how it could 'break' the feel, as its more obvious than the rest of your items used, but if you were to use some plasticard piping to slide the straw into, this will create some steps in your pipes and you can then still keep the bendy bits to create corners. Think of it like a sleeve. (I recommend a bundle from china for about £10 off ebay, will last a long time).

This is looking awesome. Well done and all the man hours are really paying off

Just wow, as someone whom has been hired to make gaming table and terrain through out my life I am just blown away by the scope of the client and the skill applied. Job awesomely done.

@Solar Shock: Yes I know what you mean with the smoke. Luckily this was just a test piece so I will adjust it to be more realistic. Maybe give it a quick go with my airbrush to give it more texture. And the Straw pipes; Mike-w gave me a great but simple idea to get rid of the straw-look. So I will try that.

WARNING LARGE UPDATE PENDING: I couldn't resist to share my work on the great hall and facade with you guys.

It still needs allot of painting, but I've worked last weekend and 'some' hours during this week on the entrance wall for the main hall and also designed a logo for this ancient lost chapter of the Space wolves that lived here so many millennia ago. During the proces I made the seal twice so I could choose the best. They turned out so great I thought it would be a shame not to use them both. So I figured to use one on the inside and one on the outside. But the one for the outside was to big for the original idea I had for the facade. Therefore I either had to go back to the drawing board to design a new facade or not use the seal... and but during my night sleep I dreamt about it and managed to wake up in the middle of the night and draw a quick sketch of the facade that appeared in my dream. Luckily my girlfriend didn't wakeup for I would face the wrath of insomnia the next day!

The new facade design is, in my opinion, so much better than the old it is freakishly scary. It has the myth of the Tree of life in it, and a poem about the tree, Leman Russ and the all father will be painted on it in runes! So for the people who could read the runic writing... I hope you will enjoy it a bit more.

I've done the most part (e.g. 97%) in green stuff and never before have I used so much of it. And I'm not a pro sculptor in any way, so be gentle on the C&C this times my fellow Dakka members for this was the best I could do at this moment.

I also had allot of fun working on all the nice details inside the facade relief. Hope you can find the mountain of Fenrise where the Russ and his council of 13 had residence and I also made a mythical creature (the serpent devil) inside the tree to complete the story behind the tree of life.



Work on great hall wall and roof section:










Seal design:




Size of the seal and working out the seal step by step:
















Pre fitting




Third layers






Pre fitting all layers to see hight change




All steps in one image




Pre fitting the seal on the great hall wall








In the previous image you can see my dilemma. The next range of images you see my nightly design and the proces that followed in creating the big new facade for the temple entrance. Hope you like it!










Here you can see that the depth of the encasement for the seal is to shallow because the light is shining not an all parts. And I also decided that one light isn't enough.




So I increased the depth of the hole and made 3 lightning slots. (NOTE: lights are test lights... I'm tempted to take 2 red lights and make the center light warm red. What do you guys think?)




Finalizing the design layout on the facade.




The secret ingredient to make a seal:






Decreased the hight of the seal a great deal without making it break = Though job.




Creating a indentation for the relief to go in




I decided that the facade could use a different texture to stand out from the rest of the wall works so I added a 2 layered piece of pizza box cardboard to create the surface. Also important to mention is that it also dubbels as a sealant for the lights that tended to creep besides the stone (read foam) seal ring.






Before glueing the cardboard surface on to the facade I primed and base painted the facade and seal. Also glued the stone seal ring in place where I planned to add the knot work roots from the tree of life later on in the proces.




Also added foam fillers for the tree so I would use greenstuff




Here I ran out of green stuff which was actually a good thing or I would have fanatically kept on working on it to way into the night which isn't a smart thing to do.






Aaaahhh finally some more green stuf... I already used up one whole pack so I bought another 4 packs to be sure.














Continued the next evening




AAANNnnndd DONE!








THE mountain of Fenris.




And the serpent of which I ill redo the head because it got busted up while doing the leaves.



So today will be painting day for the facade. I'm really exited to work on it and hope to bring out all the nice details and I hope the runes will turn out also great.

Enjoy the nice weekend guys and galls! Cheers

Badass.

Really nice sculpting skills

You might want to consider plasticard for the next seal though, cardboard is risky and could've wasted part of your work due to damaged edges when cutting and / or bending and stuff.

WRT lighting, I'm thinking you don't want too many lighting colors, one or two and then it's christmas tree.

Could've been crazy to have multicolor LED with remote (one of them strip kits on ebay from Hong Kong @ really cheap) - but then that may not be very useful. It would help you for testing though.

Hi Morgoth.

I have certainly thought about using the plasticard but in this case the cardboard works better than plasticard because of the structure and it being easier to manipulate. And if the cardboard / end result wasn't good (bend edges or such) I wouldn't have gone for it.

And as I stated above the image with the lightning test these are of course not the lights I am going to use...

This is brilliant!

Man.
First off, you have an IMPRESSIVE artistic vision. Seriously.
Your artistic ability t make your vision into reality is even more impressive.
Congratulations on what I'm certain is going to be a masterpiece and a centerpiece in your friend's gaming collection!

Eric

Remarkable work, great photography too!

I'm really amazing and inspired by what you're doing here. The level of thought you've put into the design, sculpting, and the overall production of this build is really impressive. It reminds me, in the best way, of a well designed video game level, with the beautifully designed lighting and the attention to detail.. just amazing work!

Looking forward to seeing more!!

 Remco_Tuerlings wrote:
Hi Morgoth.

I have certainly thought about using the plasticard but in this case the cardboard works better than plasticard because of the structure and it being easier to manipulate. And if the cardboard / end result wasn't good (bend edges or such) I wouldn't have gone for it.

And as I stated above the image with the lightning test these are of course not the lights I am going to use...

Good, that means you're less crazy than I am

When I see those feathered cardboard edges I just overreact

Hi guys

A small update: I present to you my 13.000 year old Temple facade... Sorry for the poor quality photo's (again). As soon as I'm done with all the building and painting my uncle, who is an professional photographer, will take pro photo's from every part and detail of the board.

I tried to paint it so that it would look like it has withstand millennia's of time. So the gold, bronze, iron and stone are colored, rusted and covered with algae. Hope you like it.

I know you can't do it with this piece as it is for the client but, BLACKHAND has an amazing guide on Resin Casting.

Have you ever thought of making more scenery and casting it in Resin and selling it on the side in a webstore? Your sculpts are amazing, they would totally merit a store just for themselves.

That fresco/facade is amazing. Stellar work.

@Stormwall: Thanks for the great suggestion and compliment.

To be honest I have never thought of making molds and resin parts to sell because I've never considered myself to be a great sculptor. But after having read BLACKHAND's tutorial I'm really exited to at least try it out. And if the result is sellable then I really am going to consider selling them on the side! But I will definitely give it a try first to see if I can really make good quality resin parts for I have a few good idea's what to make. And also applying the tips and suggestions talked about in his tutorial by others (e.g. chalk powder, stirring with a tooth pick, pressing out excess resin with a poly-board, vacuum the mold in a fishbowl with a plastic bag and a vacuum cleaner, etc).

 Remco_Tuerlings wrote:
@Stormwall: Thanks for the great suggestion and compliment.

To be honest I have never thought of making molds and resin parts to sell because I've never considered myself to be a great sculptor. But after having read BLACKHAND's tutorial I'm really exited to at least try it out. And if the result is sellable then I really am going to consider selling them on the side! But I will definitely give it a try first to see if I can really make good quality resin parts for I have a few good idea's what to make. And also applying the tips and suggestions talked about in his tutorial by others (e.g. chalk powder, stirring with a tooth pick, pressing out excess resin with a poly-board, vacuum the mold in a fishbowl with a plastic bag and a vacuum cleaner, etc).

My reaction:


I can see the frescos, the forges, the doors and all your other sculpts selling. and that is just to begin with. If I can do it you can, your sculpting makes me look like I am a five year old with crayons all over again. I am currently working on making a giant round topped gun turret mounted to a tower with ramparts. The irony is I started it with a small pringles can and foamcore, now wrapping chunks of plasticard and cardstock around it. I got the idea from this thread to use the foamcore. I can't wait to see how it moulds. Also I've been making small crates that can have aquilas added on to them and also giant ammo shells for scenery next to a turret/for a Vindicator. I doubt I will end up selling these things unless people demand it but, I might give them out to some people on Dakka who I follow. Anyway, your work inspires my terrain and to be honest, terrain is my bread and butter really.

The temple facade is stunning

Love the weathering effects on the façade, but are really wondering what the inner temple diorama is going to be?

I love you man. *sniff*

Man,you have got some skills.Fantastic ideas and execution.