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On top of your great sculpting skills this looks like top notch casting skills.
Would you mind sharing with us what company do you use for your models or if you dont want to share to wider audience you can PM me.
How long does it take for you to sculpt one model?

dubovac wrote:
On top of your great sculpting skills this looks like top notch casting skills.
Would you mind sharing with us what company do you use for your models or if you dont want to share to wider audience you can PM me.
How long does it take for you to sculpt one model?

Thanks. Each of these figures has taken 60 to 100 hours each, which equates to around a month per figure. PM sent.

Well that certainly shows given how good these figures look. Part which impresses me most are faces, you manage to capture real good aesthetics with them. They kinda look like American comics (Dark Horse etc) protagonist while GW bare heads (talking about marines) usually have Sylvester Stallone syndrome :-/

Been a while since my last update, although I have been very busy working on new stuff which is very close to being ready to show! In the meantime, I was sent these pictures by a chap who bought one of my Emperor's Hand models, I think he's done a great job:

Oh man he is primearch sized.

Very nice. Charleton Heston really suits Crimson Fists colours

It's great to see you back at it, Dechande. The paintjob really highlights the sculpting work. Does the artist have any plans in mind to paint up some more of your models?

omg! these are amazing!
are you selling the norse command squad anywhere?

i attempted to make a sisters of battle chest from scratch...
ashamed of how it turned out i tossed it

Wow! That is amazing, I love Crimson Fists but I don't think I can look at mine the same again!

 LordRahl wrote:
omg! these are amazing!
are you selling the norse command squad anywhere?

i attempted to make a sisters of battle chest from scratch...
ashamed of how it turned out i tossed it

I sell my models on ebay, my ebay id is captaincalico. I also sell them via my facebook page, the link is in my sig below

 youidiotkid wrote:
It's great to see you back at it, Dechande. The paintjob really highlights the sculpting work. Does the artist have any plans in mind to paint up some more of your models?

Thanks. I don't know, I can't remember if he bought other models from me.

I received some parts from the test casts of my upcoming kit. There are some air bubbles here and there that will be fixed by the time production molds start.

I put the below figure together using my parts, I also used a gw head and gun that fit pretty well for a couple of the photos. I've made lots of hands, so it'll be easy to use any weapons with the models.

The hip armour are separate parts, the shoulders are in two parts, the arm is separate, as are the hands. This means there's a lot of options for posing.

I've also included a picture next to an archer model that measures 30mm, to show the scale.



Here's some of the hands I've done, left & right shield hands and left & right pistol grip hands.



These are the most recent parts I've made. The tower shield will be used for some upcoming Templar models, the smaller pieces are optional hip armour plates.

I have now begun working on a 'light armour', true scale kit. Here's the first parts that I'll use to make more poses and variants, a few tweaks to go before they're done. Let me know what you think:

Really tall legs, really short body. XD

 Kepora wrote:
Really tall legs, really short body. XD

They won't look so tall when they are posed. Obviously this one is standing straight up, not something you normally see (or something a regular sm model can do). I had to make a lot of changes to make the armour practical, so I can have more anatomically correct poses (no squatting marines!).

I'm aware it's standing straight - but even then, anatomically, those legs are way too long for the torso. Leg length is supposed to be roughly the same as torso length; these look like the torso length plus half again.

Perhaps the perspective of the photos does not help, but in reality it looks fine.
These aren't perfect because of the angles, but anyway:

Ahh, not as bad as I thought. Still, I'd make the chest armor a little bigger, maybe slightly taller - just to push the shoulders up a little higher. Also, I think the soft armor on the hips made an illusion of the legs being longer then they really are.

Sterling work there!

Defo a must have! Both, the light armour and the heavy one.


I know it is really nitpicking but wouldn't it be possible to sculpt at the backside a divisory line between the belt and the lower protection plate?

Looking forward to see those finished.

 miniholic wrote:
Sterling work there!

Defo a must have! Both, the light armour and the heavy one.


I know it is really nitpicking but wouldn't it be possible to sculpt at the backside a divisory line between the belt and the lower protection plate?

Looking forward to see those finished.

Thank you
I have the plate over the belt, rather than the other way round to make mine look different to the 'other one'.

Dechande, shot you a PM. Amazing work!

 Dechande wrote:

Thank you
I have the plate over the belt, rather then the other way round to make mine look different to the 'other one'.

That's also a great solution, as you get even more the feeling that it would move up when they sit down.

Wonderful stuff! Any more pics of your models painted?

MerkBerk wrote:
Wonderful stuff! Any more pics of your models painted?

Thanks. Afraid not on the painted ones, since I have been sculpting so much I have had zero time for painting

Any updates?

chaos0xomega wrote:
Any updates?

The light armour master is now with the caster. I'll add updates when I have more done.

Amongst other things, I have been working on this lately. Hope to have him finished soon.

Thinking I'll add another purity seal to the chest, on his right side probably, would like to hear peoples' thoughts.

Wow. Your space marine faces are super frowny, though. They all seem so dour. I wonder if you can do a head that looks happy? Like with an enormous, dopey grin?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Wow. Your space marine faces are super frowny, though. They all seem so dour. I wonder if you can do a head that looks happy? Like with an enormous, dopey grin?

I'll save that for a chaos sculpt, some sort of jokeresque face, lol. I like my marines to look stern and mean

That BT looks awesome.

EDC

Got the templar finished last night. Will be off to the caster's at the end of the week, hopefully I'll have casts in time for Christmas.
I've included a picture to show the separate pieces, the left arm, shield and right hand can be assembled at any angle you like.
As with all my models, he stands 50mm tall, 45mm to eye level.