Things and Sculpting: Footguards and Stuff

Things? Things are slow, so slow I haven't been bothered to post about them till now.

Bit sick of painting.... it was actually boring, tedious even! Didn't lose my jomo or whatever the young people call it just preferred to do something else... like walk the dog.

But, I have picked up on sculpting over the last couple of months, very bad sculpting, but sculpting none the less. My Greenstuff mods have improved over the years to the point even I quite like them so I decided to take the plunge and do some radical mods and whole figures. Sculpting 101 or as I like to call it "sculpting with Dick and Jane"

The first big mod sculpt was to pretty much strip, grind, mill some figures back to what would pretty much be an armature and then remake them into the 2nd Footguard's (Coldstream)

The lads aren't looking too bad although they have taken a bit of "doing", each of these figures has had it's faced removed at least twice, far more in some cases. At first it was because they looked terrible... later they looked OK but my face sculpting was getting better and I decided to upgrade. Each week it looked better sooooo.

As you can see I have been using Greenstuff but of late I have been trying out some polymer clay, (ie Fimo and Sculpty) and some other epoxy putties such as Procreate and Magisculpt, which are very similar to GS but have their own peculiarities, more on that later.

latest head/face with my Shieldmaiden in the backround

miniature Easter Island around here!

Well that is what is happening around here, seeya.

ECW Pikemen

Ye shotte have been awaiting the arrival of their pikemen for some time.... that time has arrived. I mistakenly said in the last post "picking up from where I had left off a few months ago."  More like 6 months ago, time marches on.

So here they are, I will change the chain to brass rather than blackened steal to add a bit of interest, all that black can be a bit boring. Besides I dont think I have a handle on it yet?

More of ye King n Oliver, as good as finished

Ollie and Charlie ECW

Picking up from where I left off a few months ago.... I really did have to start the new year painting something.

Warlord Games again (I suspect) Ollie Cromwell making excitement and Ye King looking cool and relaxed. Ye King sculpt is a little dodgy particularly around the eyes which is a bit of a pity. I might have to order a few of the Bicorne personality figures, they seem largish but from what I can see they seem more consistent.