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Hey everyone,
So, It all started some time ago when my buddy showed me this thread. http://forums.deathguard.org/viewtopic.php?t=6755
I though "Wow, if these guys can just whip up such fantastic miniatures I dont see why I should be so affraid to give it a shot."
Im pretty sure all of us when we first started this hobby had a dream of making our own miniatures. Well I did atleast.
So I sat down the other day, and grabbed an old Orc archer (the most useless model that most of us have far too many of) that had been eaten by my dog and started mushing greenstuff on him. No reservations, I have a ton of green stuff and its getting all messed up from sitting outside its tube. So this is what I came up with.

Not bad, I thought. Im proud to have taken a lame useless mini that had been chewed up and given it new life as a boss in Drog's Dead 'ard armor. I started thinking Sculpting isnt that hard after all. So I sat down and wrote an army list. (Fantasy orcs were the first army i ever collected, then i never accualy played a fantasy game and ended up getting into 40k where i have 3 fully painted 1.5k armies.) I decided I would need some shaman. I read the little paragraph about orc shaman. It says various orcy things but what caught my eye was this  "By working themselves into a deep trance..."
The image poped into my head, of an orc trying really hard to communicate with gork and mork then just falling asleep as the two gods argued for the next few hours. Hmm what a wonderful idea, a shaman that is totaly asleep, heh, well its funny to me. so there. Heres a sketch I did of my shaman. I sat down last night and made a quck armature so i could work on it today. I was so excited to work on him it was hard to get to sleep 

He sure is pretty... I had another picture at the next phase but its too blurry so you can skip the next few hours.

I used a plastic head and skull so he wouldnt look too ghetto. I sculpted eye lids over his eyes so he would look asleep. I also cut him off the base and added a cork stump so he would be a little bigger and stand out on the battle field a little more then a sleeping orc normaly would. anyway, any half decent shaman would chose to sit on a stump instead of the mud. Well here atlast, are the pictures of the fully painted model. Im quite proud of him seeing as he is the most scratch sculpted model i have done so far. and he only took me 1 day and a previous evening  for the quick armature.


I hope you like seeing this as much as I do.
-Sean

PS: Thanks for the Insperation MFV and Fayd.

Neat! I especially like the pose: It's different and it helps you avoid those things that befuddle sculptors the most: leg length and proportion.

looks really great for a beginner.  i hope you keep it up and show us some more of your work as you progress.

Awesome.

Very nice job on both figs. I particularly like the uniqueness of the Shaman. No one will have one even remotely close.

Looks really cool, makes me want have a try at sculpting.

totally awsome!
my sculping skills end with Berets for Orks and ugly Nurgle stuff.

WOW! Very cool. He's sort of like an Orky Monk.

That is sweet.  I really need to try my hand at sculpting, although I highly doubt it will be anywhere near as good as your stuff.

I'd say that i need to start working on my sculpting actually.I got a pack of GS from a friend but i havent tested it out yet.
I really like it though.He has that proper shamany look but where did the scrolls go?
Greatness in skull-pting though.

That's some pretty impressive custom sculpting, he turned out fantastic.  What other orcy goodness do you have planned?

Thanks for all the compliments
what next?
Im glad you asked,
My next scupt is going to be another custom shaman. So overcome by the powers of the waaaaagh he lost controll and took of all his clothes. Thats right, Im planning on doing a fully nude orc, weener and all. probebly dancing. It should be good though, I have the sketches done, and Im going to do an armature tonight. Exciting stuff.

Do orcs have "weeners"?

I thought they were fungi-based.  Like a green mushroom or something.

You don't have to use them to abuse them, if you know what I mean.

Haha, Malfred knows the score.
The Spores come from somewhere, and Ill tell you one thing. Orcs dont pee sitting down.
accualy, you can see a goblins junk in the book. I was 14 when i got it so I laughed my head off when i saw it.
Im sorry to say my sense of humor hasnt matured much in the past 6 years.

Well I finished my second Scratch sculpted shaman. This guy, as mentioned earlier is naked. Cover the childrens eyes, and brace yourself for orcy pubes.
So I started off this model like the other one, with some concept sketches, I knew I wanted him to be naked (in order to mock those guys out there that paint the naked girls with huge... guns and stuff.)

I decided to go with a mix of what appears on in the concepts, this was my first standing miniature so I didnt want to get too complicated with him dancing and stuff. though that would have been excelent.

with a simple armature I started slapping on his musculature, having studied anatomy in art quite a bit it wasnt very dificult at all.

The hard part is trying to come even close to the amount of detail the pros get.

I used a plastic head again, I just dont have the tools to attempt the detail that would go into a face. I will sculpt a face one of these days though, dont you worry.

His only accesory is his trusty turtle that rides on his head. I had the idea of a turtle shell helmate, then I decided a live turtle would make me smile more. Heres the finnished model.

and his back


I hope you enjoy this half as much as I do.
-Sean

To quote bugswarms old signature:"DUDE WTF ?"

Too bad its not an Orc Nob.

I think he needs piercings. Oh, and warpaint. Fantastic stuff tho, I struggle to fill gaps with greenstuff.

"You don't need pants for the victory dance!"

Posted By Rafi on 05/15/2006 11:28 PM
I think he needs piercings.

Yeah.  Give him a "Prince Albert".  :S

I was going to ask if he counted as being armed with a Great Weapon.  Then I saw the size of his package...

well, besides the fact that I find the whole idea a bit too weird for my taste your sculpting still looks awsome