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Offline Captain Blood

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #45 on: January 28, 2019, 10:53:06 PM »
Loving this Peder. An ingenious and multifaceted creation  :-*

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #46 on: January 29, 2019, 04:08:24 AM »
Turning out great in my opinion, I love the gnarly roots.
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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2019, 06:25:06 AM »
Brilliant! :-* How are you going to tie in the roots around the Greenseer to the main trunk? He looks a bit off centre in the third pic.

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #48 on: January 29, 2019, 07:13:35 AM »
Cracking stuff!
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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #49 on: January 29, 2019, 08:26:41 AM »
Brilliant! :-* How are you going to tie in the roots around the Greenseer to the main trunk? He looks a bit off centre in the third pic.

Oh, there is going to plenty of 'rooting' going forward. I will sculpt them, thin and thick, spreading out from the main trunk. Haven't  decided which clay to use.  The surface texture of Das Pronto is good but I am not entirely saticfied with it's viscosity. it  is basically paper mash and contains a lot of fiber. I may opt for the milliput/greenstuf mix. Or maybe do what you did last year with his Statue of liberty: make a basic sculpt with DP and dress it with greensuff. Or I could make the bulk of the  thicker roots with aluminum foil... As you can tell, I am open for suggestions.
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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2019, 08:45:08 AM »
Thanks, all, for the encouraging comments. Makes it more fun. :)

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2019, 08:24:03 PM »
I've been working on the cliff, after having decided to go for the cut-up-the-foam method.




I've laid out the main roots, using Das Pronto. As I have said before, this clay doesn't readily lend itself to fine sculpting. But it is cheap, and can be used to bulk out rough forms. I will accentuate them with a even more complex mesh of finer, branching roots by using greenstuff/miliput.

Just an image of the cliff at the back of the tree.





I will have to cut down the shards of slate which reach too high above the cave module and put one piece atop as a roof. A few thick roots will then be sculpted to embrace the thing.





A closeup of the face. It is really an important identifier of a weirwood so I will take a long heard look at it to decide if I will leave it as it is. Your input is welcome.

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #52 on: January 29, 2019, 08:31:02 PM »
Love it  :-*
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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2019, 09:19:10 PM »
Awesome.

Face is perfect - maybe the brows need to extend inwards a little (but retain that triangular shape: "=> <=" instead of the current ">    <" if that makes sense). He/she looks too friendly.
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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #54 on: January 29, 2019, 09:58:50 PM »
The face is great.

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #55 on: January 29, 2019, 11:54:44 PM »
 :-* That is going to be a masterpiece.

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #56 on: January 30, 2019, 09:03:26 AM »
I realize I have assumed that everyone here knows what 'weirwood' is.  That's fan boy mentality for ya...

In case someone doesn't, and also gives a shit, here's a short description:

A weirwood is a kind of occult tree which grows throughout the lands of Westros, as concocted by the fantasy writer G.R.R. Martin in the 'A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The trees have been used as places of worship and gathering throughout history, first by the so called Children of the Forrest (some mostly extinct pygmy elf people) and later by the First men.

The weirwood has a magical capacity of integrating time and space. A magician (and apparently some animals) with certain innate powers can see through time and space when connecting with the tree ( a bit like when James Cameron's Avatars connect using their LAN-cable tails with certain trees). Some of these magicians are said to have the 'greenseer' ability.

In days long past weirwoods grew in groves or forests called Godswoods. Later villages, towns and citadels grew up around these centers to finally incorporate one live or dead tree in their parks or gardens. Many weirwood have been cut down as the wood is very valuable.

In the North, weirwoods are still places of worship and ceremony.

The trees are said to have smooth bone white bark  and wood, red leaves and blood red sap. Weirwood which are center for godswood have faces of various expressions carved into their sides. These faces apparently continuously weep and drip red sap.

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #57 on: January 30, 2019, 11:08:09 AM »
I'd cut that sucker down and use it to make coffee tables. For my coffee table books. :P

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #58 on: January 30, 2019, 12:39:17 PM »
I'd cut that sucker down and use it to make coffee tables. For my coffee table books. :P

Thats the spirit!

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Re: BSC2019 Hammers Godswood
« Reply #59 on: January 30, 2019, 02:31:16 PM »
Really well done, the face looks great.

In the setting of the book, how many of those trees still exist, roughly? Are they common?