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Author Topic: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.  (Read 130326 times)

Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #765 on: November 12, 2023, 05:57:05 PM »
Intriguing! It certainly looks promising to me. You’re right that chaos figures are a good entry point to sculpting - to paraphrase Bob Ross’s painting videos, “there are no mistakes in sculpting, just happy little accidents! If your sculpture has three ears, that’s just great!”
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Offline FramFramson

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #766 on: November 12, 2023, 06:21:35 PM »
Well, you certainly have the general proportions and pose looking good to start!


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Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #767 on: November 12, 2023, 06:23:48 PM »
Coming on nicely!

Are you going to attempt the original's elaborate multi-horned helmet? That would be quite daunting, I'd have thought!

Oh bloody hell, I didn't know there was already a model! I was just winging it. Okay, new information, this will have nothing at all to do with the original sculpt (which I've just seen on Stuff of Legends and don't like anyway, link below) and will be something new.

http://www.sodemons.com/rhhobgoblins/c36hobgoblins/c3601-gyokurinti/index.htm
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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #768 on: November 12, 2023, 09:12:36 PM »
I'm sure it'll be all the better for coming straight from the write-up!

Offline nicknorthstar

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #769 on: November 12, 2023, 11:28:44 PM »
I had that figure, from back in the day.

It had a massive mould rip, filling in the space between it's arm and body. I just stuck a shield over it, looked fine.

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #770 on: December 04, 2023, 08:46:02 PM »
Okay, it's been a while, but I finally found time to add to poor old Gyokurinti the Strangler. I went with pure Greenstuff this time, to keep it simple and I was happy with how it was to work with. If I needed crisper detail or a smooth surface perhaps I'd go different, but for now, it seems right. I will be aiming to crisp up some of the softer lines and cruder lumps with a smart paintjob anyway, which is a bit of a cheat but I forgive myself since it's my first try.

Some panel armour on (with straps and buckles at the rear - so he can't remove it during frenzy!) and the hands, ready to be drilled out to take weapons. I had to stop myself at this point, because I kept poking the still-soft bits of armour with my fingers and squishing them. Slowly slowly.




Offline randycarter

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #771 on: December 16, 2023, 07:43:15 AM »
I think it's growing wonderfully, great job! Don't be bothered about time, sculpting minis is a very slow process. An old friend of mine, quite a good sculptor, used to manage several projects all at once, in order to maximize curing time of the putty.

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #772 on: January 09, 2024, 02:22:29 PM »
Sculpting job is edging forward, but with long waits for the putty to dry inbetween minor tweaks, it doesn't look very different from the last set of pics. However, I have been slapping some colour on some old mins to keep me busy with the brush, too.

Here's an old C35 Knight of Chaos, resplendent in his black & white colour scheme for my Malal army.





Next guy is Ogroth Darksoul, from the SS1-2 Warriors of Chaos boxed set. Here he is as he should be, on the Stuff of Legends site - http://www.solegends.com/citboxes/ss1bwarriorschaos/index.htm

However, by the time he came to me he had been the victim of what I can only assume was a soldering iron (having tried to repair my mins with one as a foolish youth, I know the look). His head and right arm were melted and blobby stumps and the shield ... well, the shield I just didn't like. He has been rebuilt and re-equipped and looks much happier I think.






And finally but not leastly, here is the Lhankor Mhy adventurer from the 'Humanoid Adventurers 2' boxed set. That's all the humans painted from that set, now it's the beasties to go.






Offline Pattus Magnus

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #773 on: January 09, 2024, 02:52:00 PM »
Those are all excellent, but the shield pattern on the last fellow is amazing!

Offline steders

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #774 on: January 09, 2024, 03:14:51 PM »
Awesome as always Cubs, I agree the shield on the human adventurer is amazing

Offline steders

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #775 on: January 09, 2024, 03:20:38 PM »

The single C-series chap (or chappess, hard to tell really) has had a replaced blade for his ... I dunno what you'd call it, glaive? falx again? ... anyway, the old one had snapped off (I've yet to see an original figure with it intact)

I was feeling as smug as anything as I have that figure with the glaive intact, or should I say had. I'd already applied the base metallic colour and was about to apply a wash, literally as my brush touched it, it fell off, no pressure from me at all.
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Offline batu

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #776 on: January 09, 2024, 05:37:07 PM »
I have to agree with Pattus. The shield is breathtaking.

Offline Cubs

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #777 on: January 09, 2024, 05:37:20 PM »
I was feeling as smug as anything as I have that figure with the glaive intact, or should I say had. I'd already applied the base metallic colour and was about to apply a wash, literally as my brush touched it, it fell off, no pressure from me at all.
Love your half orcs.

Bugger! Can it be pinned? If not you could try my method by grinding down a waste bit of flat metal (tweezers in my case) with a nice pointy root to slide into a drilled hole in the handle.

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #778 on: January 09, 2024, 05:39:25 PM »
Thanks guys, the shield was a wobbly one and it's not perfect, but I kept the paint thin and tried not to shake too much! I wanted something to hint at Lhankor Mhy designs - kind of blue/grey with cloud patterns being quite common to denote knowledge and higher learning - and Googled a bunch of different Greek style designs. This one seemed doable but also a little fancy.

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Re: 'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.
« Reply #779 on: January 09, 2024, 05:43:35 PM »
Stunning work Cubs! Love the Malal colour schemes.