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All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
Sentinal finished
Published on 2023/05/26 @11:32:30 by vigilante sculpting
Here is the finished sentinel! I changed the pose up a bit from the previous post, turning the body of the mech the other way. [...Read More]
Sentinal WIP
Published on 2023/05/26 @11:10:47 by vigilante sculpting
I started working on this scratchbuilt sentinel a while back. The first part I worked on was the legs, making up the 3 parts from [...Read More]
Iron Jesters
Published on 2022/12/12 @21:40:15 by vigilante sculpting
This is a squad of Terminators that I bought a while ago on Ebay. I've been wanting to do something with them, that isn't my [...Read More]
Retro ad
Published on 2022/10/28 @15:49:05 by vigilante sculpting
A crusty looking retro ad for the semiotic macro keypad . I imagine finding this in an old OMNI magazine. [...Read More]
Semiotic keyboard, wip
Published on 2022/09/16 @15:55:28 by vigilante sculpting
I have really started enjoying using my XP-Pen drawing tablet with Krita now, but the one thing that bothers me is that I still need [...Read More]
Forest base, cont.
Published on 2022/09/16 @15:32:30 by vigilante sculpting
Here is some more progress on the forest base. I infused the leaves with some wood hardener, to give them a bit of protection from [...Read More]
Forest base, wip
Published on 2022/09/16 @15:31:01 by vigilante sculpting
Continuing on with the stealthy XV-15 suits, I wanted to build a forest base, testing out the techniques for making trees, ferns, underbrush, moss, etc. [...Read More]
Stalker
Published on 2022/09/16 @14:51:23 by vigilante sculpting
Recently finished painting the genestealer from this post . I went for a grimdark, space hulk feel, with the glowing pipes from the reactor meltdown [...Read More]
Medusa
Published on 2022/09/16 @14:21:03 by vigilante sculpting
She's got her eye-drones on you. Pencil sketch turned into digital drawing. I used a lot of watercolor brushes in Krita for this, which was [...Read More]
Levitate
Published on 2022/09/16 @14:20:21 by vigilante sculpting
Very quick pencil outline turned into a painting. I was inspired by and used a reference from Viktor Stinger's DA account . [...Read More]
Armor + weapons design
Published on 2022/09/16 @14:19:17 by vigilante sculpting
Some armor & weapon designs, for different factions. Aiming at sculpting these in 28mm, using traditional media. [...Read More]
XV-15 crackling stealth effect
Published on 2022/08/29 @15:02:09 by vigilante sculpting
So I've had a pair of pewter Tau XV-15 stealth units from GW for Warhammer 40,000 since about 2005. These were the first models I [...Read More]
het melk?
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:31:21 by vigilante sculpting
Pencil & ink, followed with koi markers. Spot the crayola. Background clean up only in GIMP & Krita. BTW "het melk?" is a rough translation [...Read More]
NO STEP
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:30:36 by vigilante sculpting
Off duty, time for R&R. Pencil and ink sketch, shaded in Krita [...Read More]
yakuzai
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:30:03 by vigilante sculpting
Quick pencil & ink sketch, colored in krita & gimp [...Read More]
mastermind
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:28:54 by vigilante sculpting
Pencil study of a piece of mechanical detail on pinterest turned into another embedded cyborg. [...Read More]
seven of nine
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:28:10 by vigilante sculpting
Seven of Nine. She doesn't look happy being on a playing card. Delving into some more paint and less linework with this one. I find [...Read More]
battle axe
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:27:10 by vigilante sculpting
Pencil sketch, given some color in Krita & GIMP. I think I've found a good workflow now with coloring, which also gives me some better [...Read More]
tiara
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:26:28 by vigilante sculpting
Pencil sketch, given some color and texture. No reference used for this one, as a mental excercise. [...Read More]
space cadet
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:25:46 by vigilante sculpting
Quick pencil sketch of a space girl with a space gun in space boots. Opened the photo of the sketch up in gimp and added [...Read More]
str3tch
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:24:46 by vigilante sculpting
Pencil & Ink sketch, from reference. Scanned & colored in GIMP. [...Read More]
REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT
Published on 2022/08/29 @14:23:55 by vigilante sculpting
Retro sci-fi rocket girl sketch, using a photo reference. Drawn in pencil & ink, scanned and colored in GIMP [...Read More]
Diver & mermaid, painting progress
Published on 2022/06/01 @14:33:28 by vigilante sculpting
Some updated photos of the diver & mermaid diorama. I had previously gone with a darker and dirtier greenish seawater look, and especially on the [...Read More]
Mermaid repaint
Published on 2022/05/23 @16:04:32 by vigilante sculpting
I was unhappy with the previous progress on this, so I decided to re-prime and start over, beginning with the skin on the mermaid and [...Read More]
Sweater
Published on 2022/05/23 @16:03:16 by vigilante sculpting
Value excercise. Used a photo of Monika Synytycz by Tomasz Zienkiewicz as reference. Started with 3 different (4, if you count the white background) values [...Read More]
RDF Wolf's Head
Published on 2022/05/23 @16:01:30 by vigilante sculpting
*The RDF Wolf's Head Main Battleship, largest in its class, in orbit around LV-314.* Quick pencil doodle turned into lineart and colored in Krita and [...Read More]
dreads
Published on 2022/04/28 @23:24:04 by vigilante sculpting
This is a black & white sketch using a photo as reference. I find that practicing with only black and white is helping me see [...Read More]
Girl with a big gun
Published on 2022/04/28 @23:23:26 by vigilante sculpting
Work-in-progress 54mm sculpt of a girl with a big gun. Mostly fimo, with a bit of greenstuff. The gun is scratchbuilt from odd bits of [...Read More]
pothead
Published on 2022/04/28 @23:22:45 by vigilante sculpting
A quick pencil sketch, turned into a Krita painting. [...Read More]
shoulder
Published on 2022/04/15 @15:35:29 by vigilante sculpting
Another quick blockin study, using a photo reference. This one has a lot of negative space to play with, and a lot of smooth shadows [...Read More]
balcony
Published on 2022/04/15 @15:35:22 by vigilante sculpting
Another black & white blocking study from photo reference, trying to find a composition that works. Quick pencil blocking sketch, followed by blocking in Krita, [...Read More]
thought
Published on 2022/04/15 @15:35:10 by vigilante sculpting
Study from photo reference Going for a more harsh blak & white style rendering, with some softened edges. [...Read More]
bedroom
Published on 2022/04/15 @15:34:44 by vigilante sculpting
Female nude study, based on a photo by Serge Zhodik . The original has this great contrast between the blue bed cover and the orange [...Read More]
smoltank
Published on 2022/04/15 @15:33:00 by vigilante sculpting
Smoltank. Inspired by @thisnorthernboy and his crazy cool spaceships. I feel tanks get a lot of grief lately. But they can be so cute though, [...Read More]
Mad Max
Published on 2022/03/02 @17:31:40 by vigilante sculpting
I recently picked up Gaslands: Refuelled , and started playing some games with my kids after dinner. They absolutely love it, it is always a [...Read More]
Underwater painting
Published on 2022/03/02 @17:30:39 by vigilante sculpting
Made some progress on the diver & mermaid diorama, with some first shades and an attempt at color: I am not 100% sure about the [...Read More]
Queadluun Rau casts for sale
Published on 2022/03/02 @13:39:27 by vigilante sculpting
I've put a couple of resin casts of my Queadluun Rau model up for sale on etsy . There is a limited number of casts [...Read More]
Comments are now live
Published on 2022/02/15 @17:37:29 by vigilante sculpting
Zarjazz! Posts and projects now have a button where you can leave a comment. All comments are sent to me via email, so you don't [...Read More]
Q'Rau
Published on 2022/02/07 @17:32:07 by vigilante sculpting
The Queadluun Rau unit is complete. Here are the final shots of the model: And here is the glamor shot: I'm very happy with this [...Read More]
Diver & mermaid update
Published on 2022/01/26 @13:16:36 by vigilante sculpting
A slow-rolling update on the diver & mermaid diorama. The cat got to the mermaid, but luckily only dropped the figure off the table, so [...Read More]
Refining the Panzergirl bust
Published on 2022/01/03 @14:14:24 by vigilante sculpting
After receiving some excellent critique from CyAniDe over at CMON, I've started refining the features on the panzer girl's face, as well as smoothing some [...Read More]
Progress on the Queadluun Rau mech
Published on 2022/01/03 @14:13:18 by vigilante sculpting
A while back I started on a rough sketch of my favourite mecha of all time, the Zentraedi Queadluun Rau suit flown by the female [...Read More]
Diver and mermaid
Published on 2022/01/03 @14:02:06 by vigilante sculpting
I've been making some progress on an idea that I have had kicking around for quite a while. The idea is an underwater diorama, where [...Read More]
Combos
Published on 2021/12/14 @15:34:45 by vigilante sculpting
I'm recovering from shoulder surgery on my dominant arm right now, so not much happening on the hobby front. Still, I made some progress on [...Read More]
Augment
Published on 2021/11/18 @17:53:23 by vigilante sculpting
I'm revisiting a bust I started in July 2019. The way I ended up messing up, then retouching and finally leaving the bust never felt [...Read More]