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After reading lots of tutorials and posts on here, it has improved my painting no end. I would say that i still only paint to table top quility, but i am happy with that and its something i can improve on.

All my miniatures so far have been standard with no conversions. So when Playing D&D with my normal group of deviants, i had an idea. One of my friends has had my Space marine proxying in for her Female fighter for ages. I thought i would try my hand at playing around with green stuff, and create her a female fighter to play with. Before that, all i have used green stuff for is filling joints when pinning, and the extent of my sculpting had been rolling it into a ball for a resurection orb to be used with my Necron Lord. So this was a bit of a step up, but i felt that i was up for a challenge. So i thought i would create a blog, to keep me motivated, and to to get C&C from my piers (more like betters )

The photos have been taken on my phone, so i hope they look good enough. My work is not really good enough to warrent a light box to pick out the detaill lol.

I Started off with a Templar model from my old Talisman Game.



I then dealt with all the mold lines before attacking the sword and removing it, as Elisa Wields a giant Warhammer. I also removed the plume from the helment and tried to remove some of the bulk of the helmet as well. I then drilled out her hand first with a 1/2mm drill bit (between my fingers) then widened it out with a 2mm drill bit. I then cut a tooth pick to size and rounded off the edges. Then i sculpted her some long hair and breasts. Her breasts were really hard to get right, and i spent ages on them. When showing them to my wife she said they were way to big lol. So i trimmed them down and tried rounding them out again. Once happy i then glued in the shaft of the hammer.





it was then left to cure over night, the next day i decided to plan out what i would do with the hammer that evening. So once i got home this resulted in my rolling out some green stuff unto a long thing sausage and wrapping it round the shaft. I also found a nice skull in my bits box, probably from my AOBR, and added this to the base.



I had decided that i wanted to make some flag stones for the base, so before i went to bed i rolled out some green stuff and cut it into squares, then left them on the top of my greased vasaline tin to cure. The next evening i glued them Down with PVA glue on to the base (a mistake i will not make again). I also rolled out a small sausage again and then flattened it, and wrapped this round the top of the shaft. and then scored in some lines to make it look more like a sword. This was to represent a sword that had been magically entwined onto the Warhammer embueing it with power. In addition i took one of my beautifully sculpted pre cured balls and drilled a hole in it to glue onto the end of the shaft as a pommel.



The next day when it had cured and the glue had dried i noticed that the flag stones were all peeling off, so i carefully removed them and the PVA residue, and proceeded to glue them back on with super glue All the while i had been sculpting the head for the Hammer, but i had not taken pictues because they were not coming out well enough. Basically i first made a oblong box and left that to cure, then the next day i added a trapeziod to the top, and the day after that i added the two sides. I had also rolled out some flat pieces and cut into various shapes so that once it had cured i could glue on for more detail (to be picked out with drybrushing) I then drilled out the base of the hammer and glued it onto the shaft, and then using super glue, glued on the flat details.

Oh yes, and i had decided that her breasts were not looking good enough, they looked to boring. so i decided to roll out a flat piece of green stuff and mould it onto the front to represent a breast plate, so that there would be more flesh for me to paint up (ie cleavage), also in the game she has green tattos all over her torso, so i would be able to paint them in now as well.

For my first real attempt at converting and sculpting with Green stuff i was happy.



After she had all dried and cured i gave her a nice spray of chaos Black and left to dry in my Death Cupboard. (So called, because previously you risked death stepping ito it as somethign might fall on you )



I have since done some painitng, but i need to get those photos off my phone. So once i have done that i will update further. Please let me know what you think


(Eddited - Dam my typing was bad lol, just read through what i actually wrote and tidied it up. Thats what i get for trying to rush it at the end of my lunch hour.)

I have finally got round to uploading some photos of this project Sorry they are a little low quality, they are from my mobile.

Here is Eliza with most of her bast coatof colur, her flesh looks aweful at the moment, but dont worry she has turned out ok



And here she is after a little bit more colour and a nice wash



Hopefully i will take some photos of her finished inthe morning light tomorrow, with a propper camera.


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Bah i had written this all and when i posted it get all went *Blergh*, so lets try again.

I managed to get up intime this morning to take some photos in the day light. Eliza is all fully painted up now and has been used for many months, i had just not got round to photographing her in decent light with a real camera.





From this photo I have just noticed how the whites of her eyes are a bit big, I have since on other models used a different technique that I read on here, where you paint the whites first before the flesh tones, so that you don’t get the ‘overspill’.

You can see her tattoo (green) poking out of her breast plate on the edge of her bosom. Which is relevant to the storyline in our campaign.

I originally dry brushed her hair with increasingly lighter shades of brown but I was not happy how it came out it looked to rough and not smooth enough. So I re did her hair and tried to highlight individual bits of hair instead. I am much happier with how it came out.



C&C welcome as always.

Well, you already know about the eyes, that was the first thing I saw. But I actually like it. Very creative and definately original. That is what I like best about conversions, you know there are no other models out there like it. I think you did a great job on the warhammer! And the base looks great! Very Dungeon-like. And as for it looking like a man in drag, that probably had more to do with you actually starting out with a male figure. But it seriously is a great job for it being your first attempt at sculpting. So get out there and do some more!

I haven't played D&D for a LONG time, but after seeing this, I might want to go back and model one or two of my favorite characters!

Keep up the good work, and if you don't do more sculpting, you will lose what knowledge you have gained from this one.