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Awesome, that crabby leg tutorial is really great. Thanks for posting that up!

Now where did those Hadross get too...

Wow... what an awesome load of tutorials.. going to go back through them in depth! Thanks for these... really sweet work! The greenstuff gods smile upon you!

Thanks, I hope that these will help out you guys in some way.

I remember when I started that there was not much about greenstuff in form of tutorials so I learned most by trial and error. With dakka and other forums now things are easier for everyone to start sculpting some things.

I get the feeling that the traditional sculptors are a dying breed with the invasion of 3d sculpting on computers, so if this helps out to motivate someone to poke some putty Im happy!

Little update,
A few doodles for my upcoming sculpting projects, Im thinking a small specialized killteam of tyranid nasties. these are some ideas I had in mind.

Very startling images NAVARRO... they should make fantastic sculpts.

Nice. I love the sense of age in the first one. He's old and cranky, and he will suck your brain out through your nostrils if you don't get off his damned lawn.

 insaniak wrote:
Nice. I love the sense of age in the first one. He's old and cranky, and he will suck your brain out through your nostrils if you don't get off his damned lawn.

LMAO! I like the maggoty look of that third sketch, but I think a full set of upper and lower mandibles minus the traditional mouth would compliment the rest of the head a little better. Great ideas all around though, and a great big thank-you (probably not my first) for the great tutorials. It's always nice to see the method to the madness

My fav ones are the Octopus and the worm guy too, they should look nice once sculpted on my nids if I manage to capture a bit of the sketches on the Greenstuff.

Been rebasing my WFB stuff to AoS.

My Age of Sigmar adventure starts here

The huge Ngobbos archer regiment that I had got split in 2 smaller detachments, all rebased in circular bases.





The skirmish look on my WFB miniatures is growing on me.

They look good! And hey, if you don't like AoS, they are ready for Frostgrave

 NAVARRO wrote:
Been rebasing my WFB stuff to AoS.

RIP all those lovely unit fillers

Great to find your work again Navarro, I was a fan of Buglands and had lost track of your mad skills

- Salvage

If all fails I will use them for Songs of blades and heroes games instead. I think AOS even with all the bad things attached to it will prevail in the end.

I will miss those fillers too Salvage but unfortunately they have no use on this skirmish game since each miniature represents itself... on the bright side I can convert now my models without any rank&file constrains.

Thanks guys.

Got some terrain from Manorhouse workshop and its perfect for Age of sigmar.



review http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/manorhouse-workshop-terrain-review.html

some pics.







Im going to have fun with these on my homemade table.

The rebasing looks like a valiant effort! (and quite nice, too, just can't imagine doing so for so many gobbos )

Have you started sculpting on those awesome nid gribblies you showed art for above?

Neat tyranid sketches.

Not yet started on the nids, I'm doing a Nightgoblin Gobba and thinking on creating and sculpting a big stone creature first.

The rebasing for AOS continues.

I had a unit of 25 Black orcs for WFB but for AOS I will split these in 3 units... so far I have 2 complete ones 10 strong Orcs units and one half incomplete unit that I need to bulk up to 10 with full command as the other ones.

Rebased to 32mm's and Only needing 1 giant and on Black orc big boss so the Ironjaws big mob is complete

















Any Ideas on how to differentiate these units on the battlefield?

You could use different coloured war paint.

I think I will paint some red while the others black and white small details to differentiate the units.


Time for another little tutorial.

How to make and assembly line for long grass tufts.

Long tufts can be challenging to do and time consuming if you need to do plenty of them. I have created a little assembly line for my tufts since I need lots of them for my upcoming terrain pieces. This process did speed up things and now I can do 100 or more a day, easy.

The main problem with long tufts is keeping them in place (standing up) while they dry... With a bit of paper you can do the following structure.


1 - Perforated paper with some folds so that the holes are away from the ground.
2 - Non adherent paper, this is where the glue goes
3 - Paper frame duck-taped to a movable surface since you want your little tuft factory mobile


I choose a big distance from the ground because I need big and medium tall tufts.


I created two assembly lines so that I can clear more units per day.


I use cheap PVA glue and some tall grass from any company really.


Lay down some glue blobs on the non adherent paper.




Grab the tall grass and make sure both extremities are secure. If you don't you will have loads of grass bits flying around everywhere.


Insert tuft trough the hole and let it stick to the glue beneath it.


Make sure you do different lengths and volumes so that you can have more options when flocking your terrain.


Once PVA is dried you lift the punched paper to reveal the results.


Thats it tuft done!


If some of them have to much glue on the base you make sure you cut off the extra.


Lots of different sizes and shapes.




I keep them in a bag and the leftovers I also keep them in a bag so I can use them later on as scatter flock.
You can do plenty of tufts very fast this way.

tut link
http://mr-bugman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/tutorial-how-to-make-long-tufts.html

Hope its useful it made a difference in therms of speed for me.

Another excellent tutorial. I've also made long tufts for many of my bases, but I like your way better than mine. Thanks!

That is an excellent tutorial! I will be using that.

The AoS rebasing is coming along nicely! I find gubbinz and unit fillers now make great counters to remember all the random buffs in game :-)

Thanks guys. I will try to find a way to do small tufts without the help of all the expensive machines we see these days, its proving quite difficult so far.


Bottle that is an excellent idea! Sculpt your own counters! I never thought of that and each army could really have their own little things! What are you using for your counters?

Very nice tutorial! I will have to put that to work on bases for KoW.

Cheers thanks mate.

I finished up my count as Doom DIver model. I used FW Gobba and some minor amends just to make sure the model was strong and durable enough for gaming tables rather than just displays...









I do not like any of the current O&G artillery kits so I will do my own convos and models as I go.

That looks very cool, great idea.

Very nice work on the doom diver , plus I love the grass tutorial, so simple, I wonder why I didn't think of it before .

Thank you so much for some brilliant tutorials. So simple yet so effective. You've dispelled a lot of myths for me.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Thanks guys. I will try to find a way to do small tufts without the help of all the expensive machines we see these days, its proving quite difficult so far.


Bottle that is an excellent idea! Sculpt your own counters! I never thought of that and each army could really have their own little things! What are you using for your counters?

OH, I am no sculptor so I am using random bitz. Baby Griffin from the Empire general kit to represent my General's command abilities etc. I usually place the counters by the unit to remind me that something extra is happening there rather than a dedicated role for each counter. For example my Monkey on a barrel or the troll skull from BFSP can mean anything and everything :-)

A propped up shield always makes a good "mystic shield" though.

The Doom Diver counts as looks incredible!! I love the goblins on stilts!

Gobba squig & co look smart on those round bases, and way cooler than a standard orcy catapult Funnily enough I almost picked up a slightly mangled one of these on eBay to do the same thing with, but backed down

Those bases must be your own casts, right? Nice look to 'em, with the little height boost and all.

- Salvage