Nice Stems

Got the outside shell on the legs. Don't know if they came out how i wanted but they are there now and I'm just going to have to deal with it.













What do you think about the detailing on the edges? still think they have some work to go before i can start on the finishing details. Getting tricky figuring out what order to do each part of the sculpt.














Tryed adding a little battle scaring. if all else fails i still have plenty time to fill them in. going to try and add as much detail as i can by the time I'm through. May also use some white spirit to remove any lingering thumb prints.












Just read about the fanfest contests. would have been absolutely amazing to have had CC displayed. Sadly i doubt she would have been ready in time. Even if I could have got to the states. How lame is it that there is no EU event? though I doubt if there was, that it would be anywhere near as big as the NA/JP events respectively. How bad ass would it have been if it was though *dares to dream*

Claws

CC finaly got claws? Yes, I got them on! How? well I figured I could get away with extending the caraparce on her underbelly a little and haveing claws come out at an angle to give me a little more room. I think it worked but I wont know till i flesh them out.














Wraped in the same fashion that i did the legs.














Legs took a squidgeing, which gave CC a little more ground clearance.

underbelly part dur

The mistakes made on CC are realy starting to add up now and I'm trying to avoid paying the price. I've got to find some way of blagging her front snipers on without ppl realising what I have done. I cant remember if i mentioned this in a earlier post or not but her back shell isn't at the right angle and neither is her front shell. which means the front shell is a lot lower than it should be . I've got to figure out a way to get her claws on without them dragging along the ground . Also one of her legs is about .5cm shorter than the other. doesn't sound like much till you think that she is only about 7cm tall totall (that's a wild guess btw, I haven't actually measured her). i could snip off that leg and add a section on maybe, but I don't think I have enough room to pin them together so I think it will be for nout.


Tip of the day is start from a decent set of multiple angle images/sketches, measure everything and scale it, or you might pay for it at the end. Anyway, tho she wont look like a mirror image of the ingame CC I don't mind. In fact I love her more for it. My CC will wear her battle scars with pride.

ooOOo the excuse, I mean, reason for CC's longer than average shell just came to me. They must grow with age like ears and noses there whole lives. My CC has just seen a little more of the world than most ^^. Off to do a lil more sculpting, with hopes to get a few sessions done today so I have a nice buffer of posts. Peace out

The underbelly

Started working on the carapace? of the legs. Think there going OK. Think I'll need another session on the surface and then probably another working on the detail. The way my brain works is to build it up and then cut the details in. Like cracks and dents in the shell for example. Probably just habit as I'm used to modding more than scratch building.













This is all the same basket. This one needed a lil more work to catch up to the others. She was looking a lil bulgie too so i had to shave her back. All these baskets need now, is texturing. PROBLEM! I still haven't found my rubber nosed brushes. Hope i don't have to buy a new set.

Leg Rebuild

Agentofping took on the task of painting a large 15mm Army. One of which was missing most of one leg and the back half of his foot of the same leg. So i had a bash at making him the man he should have been. Think he turned out pretty good.... well as good as 15mm gets ^^

From the piks it looks like its just had surface work but I assure you his whole left leg, from the calf down, is solid green stuff (foot dosent count on acount of it being a foot eh). beauty

Pots?

Starting to look a bit more like ceramic pots than wikka baskets but atleast they are looking like baskets. Anyone else find that procreate is a lot harder to work with on smaller details than green stuff? It seems to not like sticking to itself.














Also ive atempted to texture the insides of the claws. Started with the insides so i can build up the outsides around them, which i think would be difficult to do the other way round.


Think most of the bulking up is done now. Quite excited to get on with the detailing but have lost my rubber nose brushes ; ; I blame that damn mother inlaw of mine. "tideing" my left foot!








Will do a bunch more tomorrow, promiss.

Better late than never

Bet you thought i was gone forever eh? No such luck. I got a lil too into FFXI and it took a anxiety attack with lots of hyperventilating (sad i know) over a DC to make me realise that maybe it was time for a break. Since then I've been all over the sculpting. I missed capturing a few stages between but managed to get the wife to clear out her camera to get these shots out.


Not bad huh? mainly bulked out the legs. finding it difficult to get the legs even. I'm hoping that irregularity's will give her a more "realistic" feel? yes?


Baskets too. i have been a busy bee. Started by wrapping some clingfilm (surang wrap?) around a couple (a few relly) file handles and pressing around some putty. once they dried pulled them off the handles using the clingfilm (right smart one me) and stuck a ball of putty to the bottom of each (the looked like Lego heads). just been filling them out wince then. i think there is no way I'm going to get them identical. Which actually works for me. I'm thinking i might make them a little worn. Shall try and keep this up better this time.