Well, here is one last big item that had yet to be started... my Giant Bow wielding Colossus!
I have been hearing a lot of good things lately about how effective this guy can be, so I thought I should give it a try. There is already a place waiting for him on the display board on the viewer's right hand side. It should balance out the Heirotitan very nicely! :-)
This started out exactly as all my scratch sculpted Big Guys.. with a wire armature. I then begin to cover this armature in tin foil, which does a few things. It makes it stronger, as the tin foil condenses when you sculpt on top of it, and it makes it lighter. You also save on sculpting material and time!
Here I continue to work out the muscles and such with the tin fil:
Once I have the tin foil built up, I start to lay over strips of Apoxy Sculpt, making sure to scrunch down the tin foil at the same time.
I added a sculpey head that was supposed to be part of some other statuary, as well as a polystyerene tube for a quiver.
Most of you will probably think of this as a gigantic Ushabti. That is exactly the point. This was done for a few reasons. First, I really like the design, and it fits right in with my story. Second, people who look at my scratch sculpted stuff think it is a Forgeworld piece, or something converted from a GW monster kit. Worse yet, they believe it is a toy that was converted! Even my Titan was getting that response, since there are so many Egyptian themed toys out there.
My hope was the people would take notice that unless I have some magic beans, a 28mm Ushabiti miniature did not grow to this size. :-)
Your skills / vision are inspirational!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Now I can finally paint him!
DeleteImpressive stuff! I've just been looking through your last few posts. All very cool! I'm also frantically trying to finish up for Games Day. My Armies On Parade display gets shipped tomorrow....though I think I agree with Dave Taylor; I already know who's winning! :) I'd like to try catching up with you at GD...I'd like to get a good look at the wings on your carrion....that's how I want to do the wings on Fateweaver for my Daemons of Chaos army. And I swear I'll get one of these accounts one of these days so I can post other than "anonymous." My name is Mikal....I was at AoP last year with the green and yellow Tyranids in the city ruins.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your army! I am still furiously working on mine! It will be a real marathon. I have a sinking feeling that one of the gigantic entries from out west will be winning. It must be bigger than all three of ours put together.
DeleteI just wish we had the times to play some games between all these armies. :-)
Cheers!!
Jim
Games? What are these "games" of which you speak?
DeleteHe he :-) This is my new tournament army for 2013, with Adepticon probably being the first go round. Of course, I am completely reworking my list, since the initial trials were downright awful!
DeleteThere are also some very fun hobby elements to the new list, of course!!
I have a long way to go to match the veteran Lizard army. I played at least 130-135 games with that one. :-)