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Speedy Swiftclaw Biker





Was looking at trying to add a wolf head to the top of my Gravis Wolf Lord and was wondering if anyone had good tips for doing it. Example would be Njal Stormcaller in Terminator armor. I was able to find one video on YouTube but they had a mold that they were using.
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Bodt

Personally I would find a part that already has a wolf head, cut it off then sculpt it onto the new model before trying sculpting.

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Do you have any experience with sculpting? If you're a complete beginner, be aware that it may not be easy to get a good result. Heads and faces are not very forgiving to sculpt. On the bright side, pelts and fur are a good way of learning your way around the tools and putty so a wolf's head should provide less of a challenge than a human(ish) face.

A good thing to do is sculpt in stages, let every stage fully cure and then proceed to the next one.

The way I'd suggest going about it is to sculpt a foundation for the head first, a little smaller than the final size as you want to add a layer of texture later, but shaped to match the final shape reasonably well as it will make things easier. Put in a piece of thin wire each for the snout and the ears to act as a frame later. You can also drill a hole and glue them in later if you prefer. They will add the necessary stability to sculpt putty around, which is somewhat needed for thinner parts.

Repeat this approach to get the general shapes of the snout and ears right. If it ends up looking too bulky, you can cut it down again once cured. If it's too skinny, you can put more layers of putty on until it's the shape you want. The important thing is to get the shape of the head right before you add texture since at that stage it's easy to correct without losing your hard work on the details. At this stage you also want to make sure that the insides of the ears are smooth and concave as you won't add any more to them.

After that you should put the eyes and bulges for the eyebrows on. If you leave eye sockets in your head frame, you can insert balls of putty in them and smooth over the edges. The eyebrows should get a little texture that matches what you want for your fur in style, but not as deep. Fur is easily made by putting the tip of your tool into the putty and pulling away in the direction you want the hair to point. Go easy and not too deep, pull only a short distance and keep repeating it until the surface is completely covered.

After this you should add a layer of putty over the rest of your frame and repeat the texturing process until you have fur everywhere. You probably want to have shallower lines on the snout and ears and a little deeper ones around the head to account for hair length. This can be done in one go or in several steps, but if you do the latter be sure to smooth over the edge of your putty so when you put on any more the next time you smoothly continue from where you left off instead of building ridges into it.

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Also, google for sculpting wolf heads. YouTube appears to have lots.

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I have done the basic fur pelts but haven't tried to do the wolf head pelt. I found one video on youtube that was semi helpful but they had a mold I can't seem to find. I know that Njal and I think Logan have a wolf head pelt. I have seen a few people that use either the fenrisian wolves or the thunderwolves heads. I do like the idea of building the layers. May do a test run and decide from there if it is worth attempting more.
   
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Bergen

I do sculpting the picasso way, as a colage. My green stuff skills are not up to snuff. I whole heartedly vote for using a wolf head and a minimum amount of green stuff.

   
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Misfittoy wrote:
Was looking at trying to add a wolf head to the top of my Gravis Wolf Lord and was wondering if anyone had good tips for doing it. Example would be Njal Stormcaller in Terminator armor. I was able to find one video on YouTube but they had a mold that they were using.


Good start for something like this is to see if you can get your hands on some cheap "animals" toys (like from a dollar store) that have a fox wolf or a dog with that similar shape head and close to the SM scale.

Cut off and hollowout the head so it fits unto the backpack and then sculpt it into the backpack, right on it and around it, keeping what is needed.
I have examples of doing that my self.
Here I used the torso from cheap toy.




Btw, nice Husky workbench! Its the one with the hand crank right? I always wanted one or three, but don't have room for it

Here I used cheapo dollar store dog as armature for bear, never sculpted bears before, but the scale fit.









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Geifer’s description is almost exactly how I’d do it. You’ll find loads of examples of sculpted animal faces in my P&M blog including lots of WIP at various stages. If you have the greenstuff and a tool I say Go ahead and give it a try.

   
 
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