WIP Wood Elf folded trousers

Hi all!

My past coffee breaks have been devoted to Wood Elves. I'm trying to break the monotone stances of the GW elves, by doing some kneeling lower halves.

Both of these are still WIP and are missing a layer or two of that leather skirt.

I'll be doing three different kinds, and would very much like to cast them after, because of how tedious they were to do, and how many I'm likely to need.

Nothing's done, have a batch of WIP pictures

I've been somewhat active in my endeavours, and to prove this I present this assortment of random pictures. 

Here's the Titan on his plain base and an elf for scale.

His tusks are ready, and those pylons of brown stuff are going to be his rocky beard.

Did a test sculpt for beards for my giants. I'm pleased and will go forwards with this.
The other has a scalp sculpted, because no helmets allowed!

Did bases for my lords, and made sure they rank well.

Stamp molded some Sylvan Elf basing bits.

Shadespire miniatures. These will be played in Shadespire and also be unit champions in the 9th Age.

3D printed Sylvan Elf terrain. 

Double sided stamp mold of a Dark Elf shield, for a friend.

I think I'm half way there?

Bits and Bobs and Pics #3

Seems that I have two different tiers of doing stuff. One is at home, and one is at work, during breaks.
I've not done anything worthwhile at home, but the stuff (of blue and brown variety) I've done at work do actually get finished.

I recently bought a few resin forest type bases, and a bunch of Blue Stuff for the specific reason of cloning the elements on those ready-made bases and doing my own.

These things came out so good, that I made a bunch more Blue Stuff molds. And at the end of the day I ordered myself a big pack of the stuff. 48 bars to be exact.
I've had so much fun stamping Brown Stuff to these molds that I'm almost out of that thing too!

Too bad that I can't be bothered to do any miniature stuff at home. A lot of Evil Dwarfs are waiting their layers of paint.

Summer Is Here And So Is My Motivation

Now that the sun is up most of the time and I've absorbed its energy, I'm itching to get miniatures done!
Below are some bases for my Chaos Dwarfs and a hand for my Treeman. I've also finished three more Lugars already, but only took an embarrassingly bad phone photo. Better picture will soon to follow. Also next up will be at least one Taurukh (Bull Centaur).

Another movement tray is done, and a couple of more detailed bases.
The bases I have now are pretty dull in comparison so I hope I can spice their look with the new ones. Some elevation and more color goes a long way.
Bases - like everything else - are painted as simple as possible: Brown undercoat, Agrellan Earth crackling paint on top, drybrush with Tyran Skull, and wash with Strong Tone, that's it.
The rust is done by lightly brushing Gun Metal over the undercoat, and then applying multiple layers of Modelmates Rust Paint.

The Treeman hand is almost done, just glue the claws and fill the gaps between fingers.

Bits and Bobs and Pics #2

I'm starting to get ready to paint some minis again. Before that, have a small assortment of pictures.

Treeman elbow.

Treeman again.

Treeman knee. (I think I should add an arrow...)

Additional Treeman details. I'm planning of doing a simple mold out of them soon.

Infernal Engine front is pretty much ready.

And this last picture moves.

Treeman progress #6

Another lazy tuesday, another progress report on the Treeman.

Baby got back.

Slowly but steadily he is gaining some midriff mass. His other butt cheek is still pretty non existent, I have to put more junk in his trunk.

That thing he is holding is just a spare bit I made (may have had a double coffee break). Fimo is getting pretty unviable at that scale, and pretty soon I need to branch out to something else for the details.

Note to myself

I was scrolling through my many comments (got like ten!) and saw a mention for a shaman mask for my Treeman. I was also scrolling though my phone photos and saw this!

Bark reference pic of which I might try to emulate. 

Many of the GW Wood Elves -of which the Treeman will be a part of- use these weird leather half-masks, which had some dissenting opinions at the time. I might have opted to use them less in my miniatures. After all this time I feel the masks are okay.

Now I had an idea connecting all these three. A Treeman face with half-mask made out of bark, with a hole for an eye which would be sculpted as above. Maybe a Treeman Ancient (the one who can do magic), so he'd look more mystical than the regular Treeman who's limited to punching fools.

Treeman progress #5

Progress report on the Treeman. Got arms, got faces. And got the size comparison.

Looks like he's vomiting.

That new face is not yet baked. I might do some additional details before throwing it to the oven, but probably not.

Pretty much the only thing I need to do now with Fimo is tho body. After that I'll be moving to Green Stuff and others to do more details.

Treeman 4

Treeman update once again. I've had somewhat busy weeks, so not much has been done to it.

Made another head for him, and made it much wider on purpose, just to see if I could get away with just about any size head... seems fine to me. Just another advantage of sculpting non humans.

Almost all limbs are covered with bark at this point, and I'm getting nervous to move to his main body. I've got no idea what I'm gonna do to it, or how bulky I want it to be.

New head and more bulk.

Side view.

Treeman butt cheek.

Here we go! Treeman part three

He's got a head and more arm!

The Toothless One. Can't do the teeth with Fimo, so he'll be looking like this for a while.

He also has a mock-up hand to let me feel how its position will be like. I probably end up ripping it off and sculpting over it, and re-attach it so that the palm is more towards him. It now looks like he's going to smash some poor fellow he's grabbed (which is actually not a bad pose...)
One thing the pic doesn't show is that his wrist behind the thumb is waaay thicker that I'd like it to be, so I'm gonna just shave it off (along the road, kids!) and re-sculpt the bit.

I sculpted the head on its own on this plastic card. I still want to add some depth, it's kinda flat now.

After I was done sculpting the head I though I made it too big, but now actually seeing it attached I feel it's OK. He looks weird now with that wireframe body, but once he gets some central mass, I think it's gonna fit just fine.

Next time I'ma take few regular minis to work and do a size comparison pics.

More Treeman

Two more pics of the Treeman. Progress is slow but steady.
The right leg is the second of the two (maybe three) different types of bark I plan to sculpt here. The leg is actually core, and the bark comes in patches on top of it, whereas the other sculpted bits are just bark.

These will be the last phases that I can pose the thing anymore, so I'll need to be looking at that thing long to figure out if I got the right pose already.

Suddenly, a Treeman!

Hello everybody. Today's post is about sculpting, and how I hate the new GW Treeman.

So the new Treeman Games Workshop came out a while ago is this tall and slim, almost demon looking thing that has form-fitting bark armor. The concept is cool and the mini is well sculpted, but I've always thought the Ents as trees and forest coming together to form only a somewhat humanoid looking thing. Like GW had at 5th edition Fantasy Battle.

So I thought I'd try to sculpt my own. I've had some practice with it, and the cool thing about this is that it's not human (so there's no uncanny valley effect), and bark is fun and easy to sculpt, and even if you don't get it fully right, the paint job will forgive a lot. If I ever get this in painting state.

First I took some copper wire to get the skeleton, and posed it how I wanted.
Then added some Fimo just to give it some bulk and rigidness.

A bad picture of the right arm, which will be this huge stump to stomp trespassers with.
This is the detail I will go over with Fimo alone. When I get the full body done I want to add some more detail with Green stuff and such.

I actually brought Fimo and other stuff to work, so I can try to spend my lazy tuesdays and coffee breaks more productively. We'll see if I get noted for doing this...