THE DWARF

So now the barbarian has a little stubborn friend! after trying my hand at sculpting a full figure for the first time. ive also finally painted him up.

whilst there is many thing i would probably of done different. im still happy how he came out for my first attempt. and in turn i feel immensely proud that i have finally achieved a milestone that ive wanted to hit for so so long. and thats make my own character from scratch.
so no there are 2. 2 more to go :)

now whilst i have him finished. he was also sent off for casting. and sent over to 25 first come first serve forum members over at the ye olde inn.

so i cant wait to see everyone else paint theirs up. and i do also believe he will be on sale fairly soon also. but more will come on that when i know more myself.

hope you enjoy :)

Peace!

a bit more from the sculpting lab. - a wizard

so ive been delving more dirtily into sculpting. trying my hand here and there at more and more. all of a sudden im developing a somewhat gruesome looking table with lots of heads on spikes turning up each time i get some left over putty. still learning what i can too!

and in the meantime i have sculpted what i can now claim to be my second scalp :)
the heroquest wizard always annoyed me. so he was definately on my list to find a replacement. and because i couldnt find one. the decision was made some months ago that when i could sculpt well enough. that i was going to sculpt him.
for me the wizard just never looked heroic enough. i understand they were probably going for that naive apprentice look. but to be he ended up looking more like this guy

not very heroic, but he might be able to help you dress better whilst dungeon crawling.
so yup i made an attempt at sculpting a new wizard. and here is what i came out with.

ok now i know this is my second ever sculpt. and i know i still have a lot to learn to get to where i want to be.
anatomy is still a little off. and im struggling with eyes also (this seems to be a little bit of holy grail info that nobody wants to share) but im making advancements. i was able to apply what i had learnt from my first sculpt to create much tidier finished article here. ok he did turn out looking a little like Ric Flair. but at least now he looks a little more on the heroic side whilst still keeping that apprentice sort of look.

anyways hope you enjoy him as much as i enjoyed sculpting him :)
Peace

my first try at sculpting a full miniature!

so i've kinda been training myself up of recent. little bits and bobs here and there. all the heroquest furniture, researching, watching and reading every tutorial i possibly could. because quite simply i want to learn to sculpt my own figures. for about a year now i have been trialling techniques and such. back and forth.
and in the last week i decided to finally bite the bullet and got for my first full sculpt.
now as i'm doing my best to create my own ultimate heroquest edition. it made sense i did the heroes too.

so please take a look at my first ever try. of course i'm happy with it or else i would'nt of posted it (but then i do like to post my failings too so other can learn like i have)

theres still a little tidying up to do. and the axe hand is only pinned and not fixed yet.

but ive tried lots of teqniques and i would say for my first 'animate' 'organic' whatever you want to call it miniature....im pretty chuffed! :)

of course its my take on the heroquest dwarf. and i cant wait to paint it! yay!

Treasure Chests

ok just a quick update on my heroquest furniture. ive created 4 new treasure chests. they arent masterpieces by any means. and i probably would of been better off just buying some new ones. but then that would be cheating wouldnt it? :)
i decided to make 4 completely different, but still ambiguous looking chests. I had toyed with the idea of decorating them with bits of gold and such around the bases, but in the end decided against it. the generic look is to hide the fact that all four contain deadly traps..had you fooled huh?

 Anyways, i just wanted them to be simple chests, nothing fancy, just simple chests

i kind of rushed these also, as like always. i got side tracked away from all the furniture onto something else...which i hope to be showing very soon. i wont say too much but..'he's' looking pretty cool and is something ive wanted to do for a long long time :)

as for furniture. what do i have left?

• fire place - in progress

• alchemists desk - got some bits and bobs done for it (i really want this to look cluttered and well used)

• altar - havent started this yet. i wanted to take a completely different approach maybe using some slate to create a more stone henge sort of looking altar. havent finalised yet what i want to do.

i believe then that will be all of them...so just another 20 years to complete the expansions too! hehe
anyways its late. and im fed up of firefox crashing on me. so thats the lot
G'night folks!