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All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
Slice'nDice
The pilot, made from a cast of the gunner mold, with the arms chopped and re-glued, and pelvis structure added. As before, there are a [...Read More]
Small aquilla
Small aquilla for the Fire Raptor There are three of these needed, so I made the master (left), then a mold (right), and then pressed [...Read More]
Adding open engine detail
It's been a busy couple of weeks; family, work and tax season got in the way. Finally started back up on the Raptor, adding some [...Read More]
Dreadnought, take 2
The previous dreadnought I built was pretty much straight up from the Drednoyt III Patoroch template, and it worked out pretty well: I even made [...Read More]
Engine exhausts
Nothing better than a greeblied engine The only thing it needs now is more greeblies. More photos here . [...Read More]
Engine intakes
The engine intakes on the Fire Raptor take shape: They were designed from scratch in openSCAD , and look a bit nicer than the ones [...Read More]
VTOLs
VTOL turbines for the Fire Raptor wingtips: A couple more pictures available at the build log [...Read More]
Fire Raptor wip
WIP shot of the Fire Raptor: More photos and wip info at the buildlog [...Read More]
Cannons
The Raptor has some cannons coming: Also, a new canopy, some landing gear, engine and the ball turret gunners are done: More pictures and wip [...Read More]
Thompson & Thomson
WIP painting of the two ballturret gunners. They are essentially 35mm busts, so pretty fun to paint. The ballturrets themselves are coming along too: As [...Read More]
The Emperor's new clones
Guerilla casting with silicone caulk These will be the ball turret gunners, so they don't have to be super purty. The pilot will be cast [...Read More]
Fire raptor interior
Here is a shot of the finished interior of the Fire Raptor, looking from the open rear hatch. The top hatch is open, letting in [...Read More]
Finished pilot
Here is the finished space marine pilot sculpt: I'll be making a mold from him, then casting him to get the two gunners for the [...Read More]
Pilot
Been on vacation for a week, slowly starting the project back up. WIP on the Fire Raptor pilot As usual, more updates and images at [...Read More]
Interior detailing part II
Further work on the interior details [...Read More]
Cockpit
Working on the cockpit. Someone wants to go for a ride. Buildlog entry here [...Read More]
Greeblies
Adding some greeblies to the interior of the Fire Raptor: There's more over on the build log [...Read More]
Fire Raptor, wip
Making some progress on the Fire Raptor. The template i have is a good base to work from, but there are several errors and issues [...Read More]
Fire Raptor
I'm putting together a scratchbuilt Fire Raptor gunship , based on a template which I downloaded from papermodelers.com . It is mostly papercraft, but I [...Read More]
Stonewalled
So I read you can build a realistic-ish looking stone wall out of egg carton. Comments? [...Read More]
Ace Bolt, Strontium Dog?
I was browsing Pinterest the other day, and all of a sudden realised where about 95% of my inspiration comes from: 2000AD. When I was [...Read More]
Blood Ravens Terminator, done!
I based him with some rusty metal plating from the grim space hulk corridor he is trudging down. Plus some scratches, since he had a [...Read More]
Blood Ravens terminator wip
Working on my Blood Ravens terminators. This is the paint scheme so far. [...Read More]
Delta Jet, finished!
I've finished my sculpt of Delta Jet. She's my third sculpt at 35mm. Overall I'm happy. I think I've got her pose and general body [...Read More]
Artstation link
Originally posted on vigilantesculpting.blogspot.com
$10 DIY LED light box prototype
Over at puttyandpaint.com there are some sculptors who produce pretty amazing work. People like Patrick "The Small" Masson , Gautier "Graphigaut" Giroud and Luc "Thantor" [...Read More]
Weekend basing
Spent the weekend basing the couple of models I have made: The dready also got a base: All primed and ready to go: Looks like [...Read More]
Wardog
Here is a roughly 50mm sculpt I made a looong time ago in a country far away, when I was a young pup: It is [...Read More]
Dino attack!
So my 6yo daughter also wanted to play with clay. I asked her what she wanted to make and she said a T-rex. I googled [...Read More]
Primed and gap-filled dready
A coat of gray primer showed up a fair amount of tiny bubbles on the surface of the parts, again more so toward the parts [...Read More]
3-eyed 6-legged killer octopus from space!
Anyways, that's what my wife decided to call him. Here he is, done. For this sculpt, I focused on getting the clay smooth (obviously in [...Read More]
Delta Jet
WIP for a 35mm female space pilot: Looking back at my previous sculpts, the biggest problem I have had was in keeping the final surface [...Read More]
Slither
A new sculpt, from the same page of concept sketches as Ace Bolt. He's fun to sculpt. Don't know what to call him yet, any [...Read More]
Dreadnought proto clone
Finally, I've got all the molds together to cast one of these: The hand took the longest to properly mold. Because I am using caulking [...Read More]
Molding & Casting
Here is the progress I've made in making molds and casting resin parts for this figure. Minus the left hand - this gave me a [...Read More]
Ace Bolt EOF
I'm calling him done. I like the way he came out, I think I got the dynamics of the sketched pose (such as it is) [...Read More]
Ace Bolt, in progress
He got ahead! [...Read More]
10 easy steps to dirt cheap mold making
or how I've learned to (ab)use caulking silicone through trial and error This is a method I use for molding and casting small items that [...Read More]
The name's Bolt. Ace Bolt
Design: Implementation: Green stuff + Aves. Sculpey + FIMO. Haha, changed the name. Too close to some video game character that I didn't even realize [...Read More]
Power fist
The mold is complete, so I removed the parts from it. They only suffered minimal damage, nothing a bit of CA couldn't fix. Started building [...Read More]
Prime, bake & mold
So here is the primed body of the dreadnought - it looks a tad cleaner this way I did this last night, then took the [...Read More]
Bulking out
Some more progress: bulking out the… bulkheads? The body fits together nicely. Adding more detail to the feet. [...Read More]
Rivets & Surgery
More rivets, and some surgery for the next steps. I think this build will have a *lot* of mixed media in it, so it might [...Read More]
Not the dreadnought you're looking for
Nothing to see here, move along. [...Read More]
Some more progress
A bit more progress on the body: panels, rivets, etc. I am using some green stuff (putty) to fill in some deeper holes. There is [...Read More]
Dread progress
Here is some progress on the weapons. The multi-barrel auto-cannon needs rework (I don't like the look of the toothpicks, I will roll barrels out [...Read More]