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Thanks

hk1x1 - it's a relatively smooth brown/black clay:


Pretty fine chamotte of 0-0.5mm, approx. 25%

I hope this helps.
Cheers
klaus

Excellent sculpting. Great to see you around. Glad to see you are recovering. I must get myself over to your blog more often.

Thank you Mate!

Here's a 40K scale shot


So rahter large, huh?
Cheers
klaus

holy hell, i bow in recognition to your excellence... this is great stuff!!!!
Keep it up!
i love the ghillie suit!
FMJ

Hey thank you guys!
Just wnated to let you know, I completed the Dragon Rider:


and while this cures and waits to get burned, I started on another piece.

For the sake of this forum I call it "Ork Titan" aka "Beppo the Slug Hunter"


So, Merry Christmas, peaceful holidays, and a Happy New Year to all of you
Cheers
Klaus

Nicely done Klaus and way to return with a bang

Great sculpting skills Klaus! A joy to see your work as always!

I very much like how you did an explorer, no warrior dude/duderina with the dragon! We grim-derp GW-Fags tend to forget there is more to Fantasy and SF than killing and dying in grizzly ways. Nice to be remembered of this, now! After all it's the holiday of love we are about to celebrate...

Riders is brilliant.

Beppo looks fab, properly determind stance.

You've done a really nice job on that dragon rider, I love all the little details, they tell a story just by looking at them .

Thank you guys!

Just a short update.
Since I'm currently not working on any WH40K stuff, but still want to share with you, just an external link:
http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.de/2015/01/the-princess-1.html

Sorry, I hope you don't consider it SPAM.
Cheers
Klaus

Stunning work. Looking very promising.

She's looking very nice Klaus. Nice sculpting work.

just a short teaser


More in my blog:
http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.de/2015/01/the-princess-2.html

Cheers
Klaus

This is definitely not spam , its excellent work.
You seem to have the human form element worked out nicely, I always struggle a bit, especially with the face.

It's her jewellery that really impresses me. Great detail work, Klaus.

But, yeah, damn faces are hard to sculpt.

Hey guys!

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I'm still not 40K'ing.

However, I'm still sculpting and painting
Here's the progress on the Princess as of last night

The Golden Throne


and the seated Princess on the throne


you can see more in my blog:
http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.de/

Cheers
klaus

Ahoy Klaus! Great to see you back! even though its not your awesome 40k work.....

That is an outstanding paintjob on the throne..... really pristine and valuable looking. The effect on those blue feathers is something lovely to look at!

Hope all is well with you!

Hrm. I feel as though her head might be a little large. Or were you deliberately going for a different scale? Though it might just be the perspective and the fact that she's seated that's messing with me.

Looking good, love the paint work on those feathers, they really stand out

Hi all,
thank you for your feedback.
@Anvildude - urgh! Hopefully not!
I've been measuring and checking constantly, but I know I'm not perfect, so I really HOPE she's all well proportioned - cross your fingers mate!

Well, current progress is rather slow.
But I managed to work on the carpets. I have the base colors and patterns down.


Even without light and shadows I think they already look great in the scene.


I also started to add patterns to the sheets on the ground.


This pattern was really hard-core (I'd never do it again) and I still have some clean up to do.


But in the scene the result looks worth the effort.


Now I have to decide if and what kind of patterns I will add to the other sheets.
Looking at this image, you see there are still two furs, a small shield, and the sheets draped around the throne.


What do you think?
I look forward to your comments and feedback. Suggestions welcome
Cheers
Klaus

Looks really great!

Go all the way, Klaus! The effect of the patterned sheets is so fantastic, it is worth every effort. Plus there is a profane reason, the patterns help distract from the fact that those sheets are not fabric. Otherwise you would need texture, or in case of silk etc you would have to work the material way too thin.
Milady seems to be a bit messy, or did she fit a temper tandrum & throw around her sheets? But it's nice to see she cultivates Calvatia Gigantea in her throne room for a living.

- btw Head and body proportions look perfectly fitting to me.

Yeah, in the other shot they look fine. I think it was just a perspective thing that was messing with me.

And you don't need to have fancy patterns on everything. I think maybe just doing a cross-hatched drybrush in a slightly different color on one or two of them (for solid-colored fabric) could work to give a little 'texture' without going whole hog. Maybe even doing drybrushed highlights in such a way that the 'fuzz' you get at the edges of a drybrush stroke follow the grain of the cloth would work, without painting the entire cloth.

Seriously mind blowing - I have no pearls of wisdom to add other than this is amazing

Thank you guys!

Well, actually, I did work structures into the rugs and some of the drapes:


I gues they will be better visible with the first wash


While I do like the look, I think it looks a bit too "wild" - or as Hruotland says she apparently threw a Temper Tandrum

(naw, it's the little dragon playing around )

So I repainted most of the drapes in red


and added the first patterns


I'm not sure if I'll do the pattern also on the other pieces...
any thoughts?


I think it looks a lot better now.




So what do you think?
Better with mostly red? Shall I add more patterns to these red pieces or leave them uni-colored?
Thanks for your comments and feedback.
Cheers
Klaus

I'm speachless, but I can still type so thats ok. Are all the little balls pearls and gemstones?

Hrm. You don't have anything to really tie the throne to the base. Maybe some of a similar blue to the feathers you did up top? A red and blue pattern would look pretty flash.

Anvildude wrote:
Hrm. You don't have anything to really tie the throne to the base. Maybe some of a similar blue to the feathers you did up top? A red and blue pattern would look pretty flash.

Hi Anvildude,
thanks for the feedback.
I'm not sure I quite understand
Sounds interesting, but I can't wrap my head around it - can you elaborate a bit?
Thaaaaaanks
Klaus

I think perhaps he means to have some blue / gold elements on the ground to bring the colours together to make it read better together. Great sculpt though Klaus! Top notch.... I have actually been going back through your thread again.... I think after I finish my Macharius I am going to build a "Klaus Inspired" superheavy tank!!

Good to see you back and around by the way!