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well evey body will probably think i'm crazy. maybe i am, but i am bent apon making an entire army out of copper wire, sodder, and green stuff. right now i am stripping cables to get copper wire. as soon as i'm done i'll start forming them int othe skeletons then when my friend is done with the model designs i'll begin puttong green stuff on them ant start sculpting them.

wish me luck i'll need it, i've never sculpted before. i am putting everything else on hold yes even DND to do this. well if anyone has any suggestions or advice for me then i would greatly apreciate it.

so what rules are you using?

well i'm going to use them in 40k and i made up a codex that my friends have agreed to let me use i posted it here in its infant years but it has changed alot and its more balanced and has SOME background not much though.

edited for spelling

You're right, i think you're crazy...

Edit for percepted harshness:

I just think that if your going to completely scratch build, being that its a ton of work, why not make a counts as army rather than house rules army that wont allow you to play anywhere but with those people? Just my two cents i guess.

well i could come up with a counts as codex i could use with it but i like the codex i have done so i'm sticking with it.

i plan to make three squads of each of my elites, 6 of both of my troops, 3 of each heavy support, 3 of each fast attack, 3 of each tank and one of each character and three of each hq that arent special characters. im going to have a lot to do for a while.

why are you stripping cable???

go to a hardware store and ask for 14 gauge bare grounding wire.

because my teacher said i could get the cable for free from him and that i could use his soddering iron to put the skeletons together. lesson: the best things in life are free.

You may be crazy but i'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Pictures!!!!

you will get pictures later today!!!!!!!

still stripping wires for the skeletons

does any one know where i can get an epoxy putty cheap?because its going to take a whole lot of green stuff to do this.

quick question how do most models hold a rocket launcher?

Um i don't know on there shoulder.

I think missile launchers look best on a kneeling model. Mounted on the shoulder with another model feeding ammo from behind.

double post =P

i hope for your sake the finished army looks good. some of people scratch build a character, but an entire army would be impressive.

When I read of your idea, I though "I think I can guess how old this guy is". And the following line made it clear:

gamefreak wrote:because my teacher said i could get the cable for free from him and that i could use his soddering iron to put the skeletons together. lesson: the best things in life are free.

What you're doing is cool. You'll probably fail. Miserably. Painfully. You'll either give up early or take some shortcuts, then give up, then start re-doing it, then give up again.
But you'll learn a freaking lot that will be quite useful for you second project. There is always a second project.

While you're still in school, this is the perfect chance to go this way. Afterwards, you'll lack the time (but you'll have more money, so you can start faster using pre-made armatures and better sculpting materials).

So by all means, go for it.

gamefreak wrote:does any one know where i can get an epoxy putty cheap?because its going to take a whole lot of green stuff to do this.

For basic sculpting, I'd use a cheap polymer clay like Fimo. Just use green stuff for the details. That saves a lot of money.

Tierlieb wrote:When I read of your idea, I though "I think I can guess how old this guy is". And the following line made it clear:

gamefreak wrote:because my teacher said i could get the cable for free from him and that i could use his soddering iron to put the skeletons together. lesson: the best things in life are free.

What you're doing is cool. You'll probably fail. Miserably. Painfully. You'll either give up early or take some shortcuts, then give up, then start re-doing it, then give up again.
But you'll learn a freaking lot that will be quite useful for you second project. There is always a second project.

While you're still in school, this is the perfect chance to go this way. Afterwards, you'll lack the time (but you'll have more money, so you can start faster using pre-made armatures and better sculpting materials).

So by all means, go for it.

gamefreak wrote:does any one know where i can get an epoxy putty cheap?because its going to take a whole lot of green stuff to do this.

For basic sculpting, I'd use a cheap polymer clay like Fimo. Just use green stuff for the details. That saves a lot of money.

http://warehouse23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=PSI000-23
Green stuff good luck.

sorry its blurry

ok ive got 2 skeletons soldered togeather and i have a third with the legs on it i will get some more pictures up tomorrow.

I need to know how much more you will add to those frames before I make the decision to follow or avoid this thread.

well.... i'm going to use some epoxy putty and mold it around the frames and then i'll sculpt the fine detail out of green stuff because of how expensive it is.
as soon as my friend gets done with the plans i'll post them here so you guys can see the hopeful end result.

Good luck! It will be interesting to see how this turns out, as one of my friends has thought of doing such a thing in order to do his 40k army, good luck!

Can you just give us a hint as to what they'll be? It sound somewhat interesting ATM, and those armatures make me think "Necrons". Lol.

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:Can you just give us a hint as to what they'll be? It sound somewhat interesting ATM, and those armatures make me think "Necrons". Lol.

This. You haven't really told us what the army even is, other than the troops are skeletons. I'm interested in the background.

I would like some pics of the units assembled, even if you dont have clay on atm. As i am also building my own army atm with a friend of mine (pics up later)

More power to you bro - good luck with it!

One suggestion - if you are making weapons for them your definitely should sculpt a single weapon and cast it (even in a GS mold) and put them on afterward. Making detailed guns that look the same would be both difficult and time consuming.

Milliput is a good option for a base for the figures:

http://www.themodelcatalogue.com/acatalog/Milliput_Putty.html

Quite cheap compared to GS.

My word! They are stunning! j/kes

I once tried making a scratch built army too. They were bits of straw covered in PVA glue and painted blue, they didn't turn out well so i gave up and...well, if you can't beat 'em join em.

!? wrote: They were bits of straw covered in PVA glue and painted blue, they didn't turn out well so i gave up and...well, if you can't beat 'em join em.

Did you opponent have a big bad wolf?

Try building your guys out of sticks or bricks to pwn him!

;-)

it is an army that i made up by myself

i never said they were necrons or skeletons

i said that i made the skeletons for the models