3d Sculpting. Gypsy Wagon

After getting a 3d printer on kickstarter (lucky to get it as a number of people are still without) I started messing around with some different sculpting programmes. One of the easiest to use (and free) was google sketchup and I was able to use it to make a quite nice gypsy wagon. Unfortunately I haven't painted it in very gypsy colours.
I also sculpted a giant snail to pull it along.

Here are some pics, painted and unpainted.
The printing had a glitch when it was running, hence the greenstuff in a line. Also I had to print it in several pieces due to the size of my printbed.

I had lots of fun making this one. Quite a nice scenic piece. The previous witch I made would look really nice with this.

A variation of this is available from my thingiverse page. (not much stuff on there)

Frogs

Another bunch of things CPmodels have of mine. Some small frog sculpts (15mm sculpt range). Fairly quick sculpts these guys. One looks rather smooth while the other is a bit more toadlike. A couple of odd little characters that should be quick and fun to paint up.

I sculpted them in greenstuff. Brass rod for the hook with the tip done in brownstuff. The other one has a morning star made of brass rod, greenstuff and a chain.

Witch

One of my all time favourite computer game series is Quest for Glory. For those of you not familiar with the game (shame on you) This game starts with you seeking glory in the town of Spielburg. A snowed in village that has had a series of tragic events leaving the baron without either of his children and some unlawful sorts causing havoc around the place. An evil half-ogre witch is the big baddy however I always though she was actually quite likeable. She was part of my inspiration for sculpting this witch. She does look like a rather generic crone though.
I sold this to CP Models after unashamedly asking if they were interested in purchasing some sculpts of mine. I really like this mini. She's holding a skull and a spider is crawling on her arm. Available in their night terror range.

Giant Worm

Not really too much to say. It's a giant worm...

Okay I sculpted it with Milliput first then did the skin in greenstuff.

I was probably thinking with Shai Hulud in mind when I began this guy.

I'll be improving the base with some rubble it has broken through.

After this I'll be sculpting some much much smaller ones, suitable for 15mm sized miniatures.

Crabman

I started on a crabman. Here's the WIP so far.

I started off with the pitted pewter casting of my cyclops brute. I chopped some bits out of the stomach area as it had too big a gut for what I was wanting. 

I'm not at all happy with the pose but this guy is a bit of a trial with textures really.

So I made a special tool just for creating holes, as can be seen on this guys back. Basically I founf a big needle and sunk the pointy end into a small kebab skewer and then put some GS around it to keep it stuck. A nice makeshift tool it is as it works fairly well. I have another one but with pointy end out for really fine details. A few weeks ago I actually ended up picking this pointy one up by lodging it under my fingernail. Urgh, the thought of it still curls my toes.

Anyway here is the Crabman. Quite stocky. Much bigger than your regular 28mm sculpt.
Milliput base on it and the crabclaw on the front is just for me to see what it will look like for posing.

Sorry for the dodgy photo. Taken from my phone.

(Sitting atop "A Wise Man's Fear" which I have yet to read, great story so far) ;)

Thug with bat

So sculpting in human proportions is a big goal for me. I find using premade armatures a real help as the armature stage is something that really bores me. I really need to work on fine details with these sculpts but it's a starting point.

Turtle

Using up the end of a really old lot of Greenstuff, I made this turtle. Unfortunately old greenstuff tends to get quite... bitty. So although the sculpt ended up nice, it is riddled with weird bits of GS. I cast this up and am slowly in the process of adding baggage to it. I've been thinking of adding a slug rider to it as well. Something really slow on top of something slow. I made it a one piece casting. The casts worked pretty well.

Cyclops Brute

I really love cyclops. I don't know why but I do. Maybe it's something to do with Greek Mythology fascinating me since I was a young child, I don't know, but I think they are cool. I've sculpted a couple of cyclops over the last couple of years. Here is the more recent one He's fairly musclebound and brutish looking. I originally was going to give him a giant bone to wield but ended up creating a branch for him as the bone would have been exceedingly big for him. I was experimenting more with facial expressions on this guy but feel I could have worked on his chin quite a bit more. All in all I was happy with the result. I created a mold for this guy and have made some resin casts of him. Both my son and older daughter loved painting them up. (Pictured next to a 28mm sculpt)


I also tried my hand at gravity fed pewter casting of this guy pulled apart so that I could use them as a base for sculpting a variety of different cylopses (I wanted to create a bit of a band of them) but as it is so large, and I've never had any practice with pewter casting it was a major fail and they came out extremely pitted. However I have used them as the basis for some crabmen I've started to sculpt. (Which I will post pics of in due course)

Treeman

One of my more successful sculpts. I went about creating a dark treeman. I went for a quite human looking form (sort of) rather than the haphazard look of a tree. The back of this guy is splitting open to reveal the wood pulp underneath it.
This one I managed to sell to CPmodels along with a bunch of other things. I made a milliput structure for this guy and then sculpted over the top using procreate putty. I really like that putty but it is more expensive than Greenstuff so, being a cheapo, I go for the Greenstuff option.

Sewers

At some point in time I was really into creating my own dungeon castings. Instead of doing this I had an interested buyer, Eddie from Zealot Miniatures (great guy), so I happily sold them to him. I don't think they have sold too well but they fit together really nicely. I made a base of these with lasercut MDF then sculpted over the top in Greenstuff. I was happy with the results

One of my first sculpts

Well technically not one of my first sculpts (Those I threw out a couple of years ago) But this is the first sculpt that someone liked enough to buy off me. While they didn't put it into production they did get me a cast of it which I painted to a horrible degree. It's an old withered witch with a feathered cloak. I should really get back to repainting this but can't be bothered at this stage. This one represents Baba Yaga.

I have one of her with a chicken legged hut that I created for her. (Which I sold with a Kislev army)

First post

So I probably won't update this very much, having a busy day job and the likes and the sculpting side of things being more fun than the cataloging of it. But I thought I'd do it anyway for the sake of keeping all of this work shown in one place (and to remind me of what it is that I have created during this part of the hobby)