28mm Historical sculpts

[AdamTheGreat]

Those are amazing! 
Such fine detail for such small miniatures. No way I could do something like that.
You should seriously consider casting them, I think plenty of people would want them!

[TAX]

Thanks!
For the moment there's no plans of getting them cast. But you never knows, I feel that I'm still in the learning phase and isn't there yet.

/ TAX

[TAX]

And here is my take on Philip V ruler of Macedonia. I haven't seen a miniature of him with the horned helmet he's wearing on some coins so I thought it was time for that. The last picture is together with my pyrrhos green and a reference sculpt by Steve Saleh.









Kind Regards
TAX

[DELTADOG]

You become better in Sculpting with each Miniature I see from you! Your faces still look a bit "flat". The overall convex form of the face isn`t there yet, but I know about the mess with the sticky, bouncing GreenStuff and the Fight to get it in the shape you want it. The Eyes should be a littlebit more in the middle of the face but thats fine tuning! Overall the Miniature looks really fine. But one little suggestion in the end ! The horse is absolutly too small, even for an Arab! No King would ride on a Pony into Battle.

[TAX]

Thanks, it's always nice to hear some constructive feedback. The heads is still my big achilles heel and your'e right about that the eyes tend to be placed on the upper half of the head.
The heads also tends to be to big.
The horse is there because it was the only ancient horse I had..

Kind regards

TAX

[rumacara]

Very good sculping.
Keep it coming.
I´m loving it.

[DELTADOG]

Thanks, it's always nice to hear some constructive feedback. The heads is still my big achilles heel and your'e right about that the eyes tend to be placed on the upper half of the head.
The heads also tends to be to big.
The horse is there because it was the only ancient horse I had..

Kind regards

TAX

Little Advice for the head problem. To avoid to make mistakes in the basic shaping or size of a head make a standard! Once upon a time far far away 12 years ago I´ve sculpted ONE Masterheadshape to predefine the size and Basicshape. After it was finished and cured I´ve made a pressmold with Magic Sculp and Vaseline. Magic Sculp is perfect for that, because its very soft in the beginning and ended up Rockhard. In the way I did it you can use the not finished used amounts of putty that are not yet hard, but to less sticky to further work with it. Weting you mold, put the Putty in press the two halfes together and then push a Toothpick or Kebabstick through the hole in the Bottom. That presses the Putty perfect in the mold and stick to the Kebabstick. Take it out and let it cure. Its the perfect Base to work on and you have never ever leavings of unused Putty to throw away.

[TAX]

I've resculpted some of my old greens that I wasn't satisfied with.
With this one I wasn't happy with his arms, that did hold a sword, so I gave him an umbrella...


With this one I have resculpted his left arm which was to long. He also got a carbine (he had a warlord plastic one before), spurs and a bandolier.


More pictures of new sculpts to come.

Regards
Tomas

[Mindenbrush]

Nice work and not easy to satisfy everyone 

My only 'request' would to have separate weapons such as spears, javelins, lances and a closed hand that can be drilled for the weapon.

keep up the good work.

[TAX]

Thanks!

Currently I'm working on a Swedish 30YW army and wanted to have the Swedish general Lennart Torstensson as my CinC. But couldn't find a suitable miniature for him, so I decided to sculpt him myself:

















I read that he was tormented by gout and had a hard time riding the horse so he was often seen carried in a palanquin. So I decided to sculpt him in that way.

/Tomas

[Emir of Askaristan]

Those are excellent! 

Torstensson is great but I'd really like to see Philip in production as I am about to commence fighting the Macedonian wars with Rome.

[fred]

Excellent stuff.

[rumacara]

 

[TAX]

Thanks!
I'm actually quite satisfied with these miniatures.

/Tomas

[TAX]

Here is another miniature I recently sculpted, it's a mounted dragon on a perry horse.  





/Tomas