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| 54mm Andrea Teutonic Knight (FP-2) |
Well I did a bit more fiddling on the green cloak of the knight and got happier with it. I decided the spear needed a pennant. I first tried doing it in paper but the paper kept folding after painting, even after being covered in PVA glue. Next I decided to make one out of green stuff. After cutting to shape and attaching to the spear I created the folds and let it dry.
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| Green stuff pennant |
The green stuff needs to be supported (I used a plastic bag underneath to avoid the green stuff sticking) otherwise it will sink before drying. The advantage of green stuff for this kind of work is that you can get it very thin, it holds the shape and when bumped (as happens, esp. with flags/etc) it doesn't break as it's always flexible. I'm really happy with the contrast work I got on the pennant. Unfortunately makes the rest of the figure look a bit flat. Next time..
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| Green cloak of many coats.. |
For the ground work I tried two different techniques. Normally I sculpt the ground with milliput/modelling clay, glue on a sand/rock mix, then add flock/scatter and then static grass tufts, etc. This time I mixed-up a batch of the usual sand/rock mix and adding the scatter and bits of static grass (the leftover jar from previous flocking jobs with all kinds of bits in it) and mixed it all together and covered all the base with this.
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| Ground work start |
The variation in materials gave a much better ground texture. Many people just use real dirt, plaster, ground debris for their bases and I see why now. Another lesson on why you should try new things, esp when many other people are doing it that way. The second technique was for the static grass. Rather than just put it on, or use pre-done tufts I used the 'gently blowing on' technique that I first read about from Sheperd Paine.
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| Finished ground work |
You sprinkle the grass on and then blow it from the side. This blows off the excess but also makes the remaining static grass stand up. Works a treat. I also added in some longer grass bits bent over in the direction of the wind that is blowing the cloak and pennant.
The expression "before anyone did anything, Elvis did everything" could be equally said for Sheperd Paine. The book "Building and Painting Scale Figures" is a fantastic reference and is the book that really turned me from an army painter to a figure painter.
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| Cut down and wire supports added |
I purchased five GW Stormcast Eternals secondhand in Cancon this year as experimental figures. The second figure I wanted to convert to a chaos corrupted version. I had a vision of a tentacle arm going through a nose, with the nose being on the chest.
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| Shaping areas |
Then I added some eyes as per the usual "lots of eyes on chaos things". All very standard and a bit of a throw back to the old school Chaos marines.
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| Eyes... |
For sculpting I'm using a mix of milliput an green stuff in approx. 60/40% mix with a dash of harsh language.
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| Celtic Cheiftain 1/16 bust |
Finally started on the Celtic Chieftain bust. Starting to get the bronze where I would like it. Flesh next. Need to work out the cloak and shirt colours and I'm thinking about using the airbrush on these given the large flat areas.
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