Whale Carcass

[antimatter]

Hi all,

Here is a whale carcass sculpt for DeepWars, a scenic items that can be deadly for those that come too close (giant hagfish can start scavenging divers instead of the whale). It was designed to be in one piece for strength but we will see how casting goes for the lower jaw with all its teeth. The inside is hollow, which was a new thing for me to try in sculpting. It will keep the weight down in the final casts, something that has been a problem for scenic items in the past.

The model was sculpted in a couple of types of polymer clay, a softer one for the main body and FIMO classic for the lower jaw and the hagfish and isopods. Overall length is 240 mm. When baking it, it sat on a tray in the oven on some aluminum foil and looked like a really nasty fish for dinner.

[Hobgoblin]

That's a terrific bit of "terrain"! With a bit of licence for the scavengers, it would work well as a bit of beach terrain too.

I love the (anatomically correct) detail of the sockets in the upper jaw.

Great stuff!

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking sculpt 

cheers

James

[beefcake]

Very tasty.

[fred]

Excellent. Its so good to see what talented people can create. I'd struggle to do the worms crawling on it.

[Devoted of Slaanesh]

Me wants it! Great piece! 

[Bergil]

Yuck. Great details tho.

[Hobby Services]

Needs a zombie version for all those budding aquatic necromancers out there to play with.  Bonus points if you sculpt it with a one-legged skeletal sea captain lashed to it by the trailing harpoon cables.

[Gunbird]

Would be nice for a Far Harbour gaming episode of Fallout 4, plenty of dead whale carcasses in that addon

[Belgian]

Needs a zombie version for all those budding aquatic necromancers out there to play with.  Bonus points if you sculpt it with a one-legged skeletal sea captain lashed to it by the trailing harpoon cables.

There's the Warploque Miniatures zombie whale with or without howdah, lovely model!

Really like this kind of unusual scenic pieces, well done!

[antimatter]

Thanks folks.

I'd like to keep it one solid piece but the lower jaw might have to be separated. I'm not sure about that.

[Little Odo]

That is gross! In the best possible way - great sculpt.

[Erny]

Great sculpt but the tail is wrong. It is orientated vertically as a fish tail not horizontally.  Hard to do on a sculpt lying on the sea bed admittedly but not impossible.

[Mason]

Brilliant.
I love all the little details.
 

[antimatter]

Great sculpt but the tail is wrong. It is orientated vertically as a fish tail not horizontally.  Hard to do on a sculpt lying on the sea bed admittedly but not impossible.

This was something I was concerned about when sculpting, as pretty much everyone is familiar with whale flukes geing horizontal. In a rotting whale carcass, the more it decomposes, the more the tail flops down onto the ground, or sea floor in the case of the model sculpted, ask the bones and ligaments pull apart. If you look at many photos of carcases you will see this trend. Fresher ones have flukes inthe expected position while really rotten ones have flukes that are flipped over in a position that is not intuitively correct.