Friday, 19 October 2012

G36 musings and progress

Coming along nicely now. First layer of Brown Stuff on the G36. I'll do a little bit of sanding on it I think, but it doesn't seem to need much. Bless their heart, Heckler & Koch, for their simple, clean design. The more I look at the G36 the more I think that it's some kind of penultimate 90's vision of a future weapon. BIG! Long as hell and with built in optics. It looks so tall on its lateral aspect and boxy. I'm very much reminded of the Starship Troopers weapons. I see some small things that I'd like to improve like the stock maybe. However I am going to be making 5 or 4 more of these so some things are going to be lessons learned and leave it at that; also, the stock will probably be mostly covered up by the arm on one side and the body on the other so it's not exactly  a "feature", is it?





Oh, and check out how the dude is coming along. The arms are proportioned but not posed. Once they're fixed in place we can pose them a bit and build up the masses in earnest. Then it's on to the face, boots, pants, vest and arms. Just a hop, skip and a jump.


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Monday, 15 October 2012

More 1 to 72 scale goodness (session 2)

I've really missed sculpting. So calming, it is. Very enjoyable. Today's progress features goopy G36. I tried to smear some Green Stuff on the various places so the Brown Stuff can have something to latch on to later as it is less sticky than GS. It's coming along rather nicely I must say. It's going to be slightly bulkier than true to scale, I can tell. I think it'll pay off, though, because it will be more "readable" and it's going to be absolutely dee-lish in that scale with the guys all proportional and what have you.

These initial stages can't really be hurried because I'm making something to work "against" and until I have that I really can't put much pressure. I think it's going to move really fast, though, when we do get there. There's 4 more dudes to go so it better. 

1:72 scale G36 V.01.02

1:72 scale modern German infantry - armature. Kneeling, shooting.


1:72 Modern German Infantry - BEGIN!

Hi guys!
Well here we go. It's 1:72 or colloquially "20mm" modern Afghanistan Bundeswehr!
These are going to be for a young German company if they like how it comes out.

In the pictures you can see the workspace, a G36 V.01.01 and a couple of blank armatures for making dudes out of. I'm working with casting in mind so it's Green Stuff / Brown Stuff all the way.

The first set is 5 guys all in shooting poses.

I hope I get around to making a couple of illustrations as well. I really need the practice some more.





Saturday, 13 October 2012

ERMAHGHERD! BUNDESWEHR

I've got a little surprise coming up. Can you guess what it is and at what scale?

Friday, 28 September 2012

Shirts, prints and avatars

Worked a little bit last night on the 1:64 guy. I really like sculpting and I feel bad that I haven't gotten around to it in a long time. But I guess I needed the rest.

I've put up some designs for sale on printed things so check out my "stores". You can get shirts, hoodies, iphone covers, prints and various other stuff.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/hellbeard

http://society6.com/Hellbeard




Also, here is some other things that I've been making.















Monday, 10 September 2012

He's walking here!

Very busy lately. Progressing very very slowly on all fronts. Will update when more is available..

Saturday, 1 September 2012

Isometric soldier, shirt.



Still working on the prototype. It's an isometric, retro pixelly, turn based tactical infantry game. 
If you've got questions the comments are available.

Owl Messiah