First Sculpt attempt Zulu War British casualty

[orm1]

This is my first sculpt attempt decided on British from Zulu since Zulu is the greatest film ever made. Any advice or comments or criticism  welcome wanted to have a casualty hanging over something so went with mealie bags. Its about 75% complete up to now but I'm happy how its turned out so far, I put him face down so I didn't have to sculpt the face and fail.

[cram]

Looks good for a first attempt!
I've Not ever sculpted anything, and I've only ever done a couple of very basic conversions to my miniatures, so I'm not myself in a position to give you any advice really. But what did you use to create you're sculp? It looks like Milliput. 'Green Stuff' tends to be what most people prefer to work with.

[orm1]

Yeah I used miliput usually use green stuff my self but had none left.

[joroas]

Zulu is the greatest film ever made.

 

[cram]

A google search on 'how to sculpt miniatures' brings up plenty of helpful sites, also there are a number of videos on Youtube too. Here is one site offering advice: http://www.ebobminiatures.com/sculpting/introduction.htm

Hopefully some of the others on this forum, with experience in this area will be able to offer you more help than I can.

Good luck and stick with it as for a first attempt it looks good to me and with further practice you can only get better.

[orm1]

Bit of an update base not finished but painted up the figure.

[miltiades]

fantastic

[Happy Wanderer]

Very nice.

Can I suggest that if you want to perhaps 'keep it real' then sculpting casualty figures might be a nice little 'niche' market. Most people are a little less particular with casualty markers than full figure sculpts in their army and you can get away with the pains of the learn gin curve required.

If you were able to focus on getting sculpts offering a whole range of 'dead men' then you could improve your sculpting skills and get some return for your efforts ASAP.

There are any number of armies that need casualty figures that are not currently available and if you do fairly generic casualties then they have multiple uses.

Lastly, most people don't like paying 'full tilt' for causalities so if you make them price competitive you could create a nice loyal following and fit in next to current ranges of figures.

For example, I need a goodly number of Masai dead figures but none exist. 2-3  dead Masai types based of Mr Copplestone's figures would be an excellent few figures. It would also probably cover off for a number of African types. The Black Tree Design dead zulus are actually pretty good so no need to duplicate those.


...just a few ideas for you to think on.

Happy W

Oh, nice job on that dead Brit!!

[Deedles]

I think Happy Wanderer may have hit on market niche there...

I have plenty of need for differing non existent casualties figures

[traveller]

I think Happy Wanderer may have hit on market niche there...

I have plenty of need for differing non existent casualties figures

I agree, it is hard to find these for many periods. Since a casualty usually do not display all the dress and equipment, maybe it would be possible to make more generic casualty figures with loose heads?