Showing posts with label gnome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gnome. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

A knee patch is not always a knee patch.

A fellow, nicknamed Ramshackle Curtis, commented on the lead adventure forums that the knees didn't appear to protrude enough. He went as far as to attach reference to back his critique! What a thoughtful thing to do. I patched the knees up to have more strain against the fabric and mass.

Also, I noted from a certain angle the somewhat out of proportion arms seemed freakish weird long because of how the thorax seemed to be cut off from the arm so I padded it up to look better.




Monday, 15 July 2013

I raise dead people. All the time.



A 1 to 56 miniature sculpted with Kraftmark ProCreate epoxy putty. 1:56 scale is a very good fit for the size called 28mm. The actual size of most 28mm miniatures is around 32-34mm. A man with an average height of 1.8 meters will be 32mm tall at 1 to 56. This Gnome is scaled to measure approximately 1.45 meters tall so he is smaller than his peers.

The genre I call Warpunk is a mix between your prevalent fantasy setting(wizards, goblins, gelatinous cubes, etc) and mid 20th century military theme (WW2, Korea, Cold war, Vietnam etc. etc.). You can have wizards casting brutal spells with factory made staves, tanks powered by magical gems, spec-ops sniper elves and weaponized rust monsters.

This gnome is intended to be a Necromancer figure; a wizard specializing in death magic. He fights among the other ground dwelling races. Gnomes are a strong techno-magical faction and practical thinkers. Combat necromancers are therefore a standard troop to accompany any major force. As the living fall, the necromancers ply their trade; they may turn the tide of battle or push an advantage into a devastating victory.




Demigods, immortal kings and extra-dimensional entities lead their forces against one another in a brutal war. The recent magic-industrial revolution sees a new scale of fighting: a war that spans the sphere with multitudes fighting and countless dead.

On the battlefields of this strange realm wizards are among the elite; the necromancers are never in short supply of ammunition. Wights flow out of deep and forgotten tombs deep beneath the ground. Skeletons burst out of the earth at the feet of the enemy. The slain, gruesome, rise again and strike their former allies. Ghoulish screams and deranged chatter follow this Mage. As the dead tear the flesh of foes, the fighting Gnomes and their allies cheer with fierce rage.











Saturday, 13 July 2013

Warpunk Gnome WIP 28mm

Warpunk - a genre mash up of fantasy and 20th century military. The scale height of this gnome is approximately 1.45 meters. He is at 1:56 which is a perfect fit for most 28mm sized miniatures. T

This gnome necromancer is a powerful unit on the battlefield. Raising the fallen to strike their comrades, giving his dead allies honor beyond death and summoning his own host of undead. He also has spells to attack and defend himself, perhaps rotting the living flesh off of a foe or throwing a bolt of frozen energy that can injure and kill.

Almost there now. Without going too much into it right now, I think the Kraftmark ProCreate putty is just dreamy. I've yet to gain the necessary experience with it to be as familiar as I am with Green Stuff but I think it might just fit my temperament better. Also, a huge bonus is simply the fact that it's grey and photographs so much better than GS.








Friday, 12 July 2013

Warpunk gnome necromancer - 1:56/28mm

Made some rather enjoyable progress with the gnome. I'm starting to get a feel for the ProCreate putty. 
The sculpt is a 1:56 warpunk Gnome necromancer. A remake of an earlier sculpt in 1:52.
I'm really happy with how some aspects are looking, and disappointed with some others. I guess that's how it always is, though. 
Warpunk is a genre incorporating traditional fantasy elements with mid-20th century military theme. 
Note the comparison photo with the 1:52 sculpt. A subtle but powerful difference. 








Tuesday, 9 July 2013

1:56 or 28mm Gnome necromancer WIP

Still working. The putty is PC putty. I sort of like it and hate it.





Sunday, 7 July 2013

Look at this totally sweet boot! (1:56 warpunk)

I decided, for my first PC experience. To re-do the gnomish necromancer in 1:56. I've been looking at the guy I previously made. I like him alot. I've taken him out of the dust to add a tab and decided to also try to remake a version in 1:56. Because he's diminutive, the 1:52 version fits nicely among the 1:56 scale figures as a slightly short human yet there are still aspects I want to improve so I think it'll be a good test drive of the PC putty.

No first impressions yet because it's too early to have an opinion. It was enjoyable however and the boot came out totally sweet.

Also cut out a styrene 1:100 X-95, a variant of the Tavor rifle. This variant is intended to become the standard infantry rifle of the IDF so I figure it's a good fit for the modern figure I'm making.

I pressed it into some super sculpey, baked that, and now there's a glob of Kneadatite mix curing in it. There's probably only going to be one side showing but I'll still try to get a good visual out of it. BUT IT'S SO TINY OMG.