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All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
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]
Beefed
I've gone and compared my model with photos of the official Dreadnought, and realized that the body was not quite in proportion to what it [...Read More]
Scratchbuilt Land Raider, done!
Here's the finished model, paint job is complete. At least, I call it complete. Because otherwise I'd be tempted to go in and redo everything [...Read More]
Paint progress
Slowly getting somewhere on the painting. I want to post this update otherwise it feels like I'm stagnating Some of the fine details (the aquilla/twin-headed [...Read More]
Mixed-media Patoroch Dreadnought
Since my Land Raider has a lot of staring-at-the-walls-waiting-for-the-paint-to-dry going on, I decided to start working on another of Eli Patoroch's models: the Dreadnought. This [...Read More]
Tracks, guns, trim, etc
I realized that there was some unpainted paper in the recesses around the tracks, so I masked off the tracks and ran the airbrush over [...Read More]
Basecoat
I've finalized the planned paint scheme, so now I just have to get down and do it. First step, using my airbrush I preshade with [...Read More]
Prime time!
Sprayed everything with gray primer. Have to be patient though, this stuff goes on thick very quickly. I have a couple of spots I've had [...Read More]
Wood hardener
I decided to add a decent covering of wood hardener to the model. This stuff applies like thin super glue, and soaks the paper/card, when [...Read More]
Final model, almost
Here are some higher res photos of the (almost) final model, before final prep and painting. There are only a couple of things still to [...Read More]
Details
Primed & painted the imperial eagle with polyurethane, then applied some thinned silicone. After this I covered it in plain silicon; this will become the [...Read More]
Iconography
Working on the iconography (don't know what else to call it!). Got an Imperial Eagle design going, this will go on the front of the [...Read More]
Smaller details
Smaller progress lately: added a bunch more rivets, added some more engine detailing, started filling in the minor gaps with some card strips, etc. I'm [...Read More]
Rear engine vents
Spent the evening making the large engine vents on the rear of the vehicle. Lots of tedious cutting and gluing, but the end-result looks nice. [...Read More]
Current progress
Ha. Built the starboard sponson swivel gun, then realized afterwards I had built the mirror image gun armor plate. Sigh. Luckily it is not that [...Read More]
Main gun finished!
Added all the detail around the main gun, looks pretty neat, at least to me. In the last photo you can see the starboard swivel [...Read More]
Main gun, continued
The main gun has these disks that fit around the barrels, with all sorts of stuff going on. So I cut the disks out of [...Read More]
Main gun barrels
Making the main gun's barrels. These are just four rolled-up tubes of regular printer paper, glued with purple school glue. Nothing to see here, move [...Read More]
Miscellaneous
I've redone the gun covers on the sponsons, plus figured out how I wanted the assembly to work so that I can (a) rotate the [...Read More]
Sponson weapons, Take 3
I wasn't so happy with the guns, plus it was a tight fit to get them to swivel, so I shortened the design, improved the [...Read More]