I've said it before - and I'll say it again: these are really useful Phil for understanding & following the process - nicely done 

Cheers Nik.

That was the basic idea behind this thread....So I'm very pleased you're finding it useful.

Phil.

.....Carry on with head....Start shoulder pad....allow to dry, and the drill tiny holes for the 'rivets'





......Put rivets on big shoulder pad.....Do other shoulder pad...chain mail 'short sleeve'

Progressing good, Techno.
I keep on having to remind myself that it isn't much bigger than 10mm.
Do you use any vision enhancer?

Quote from: capthugeca on 06 June 2011, 05:57:39 PM
Progressing good, Techno.
I keep on having to remind myself that it isn't much bigger than 10mm.
Do you use any vision enhancer?

What?!?! It IS 10mm???

Noooooooo!!

Amazing work!

Same question...^^

Hi Capthugeca.

Yes.....I do use the lowest powered 'optivisor'......Not really for the magnification, which is only one and a half times, but so I can close focus on the little chaps.
I' reached 'that stage' in life a few years ago where I really needed bi-focal glasses and the optivisor was a much cheaper compromise. (For me, at least.)

I did try using the 5X mag lenses once....in the belief that they'd help even more. But there's such an incredibly shallow depth of field on those, that I ended up with a belter of a headache, as 95% of what i was trying to sculpt on was a horrid blur.....very disturbing.

Not too displeased with it now....But the head......YUK !......Plastic surgery time ! .

If it helps....No, no, no Arsenus...It's not 10mm...(There should be a comparison shot of 'Jim' and a proper 10mm figure right at the start of the thread)....To the top of the head (excluding the current mane and ears) ....He's 18mm near as dammit.

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno on 06 June 2011, 07:02:04 PM
Yes.....I do use the lowest powered 'optivisor'......Not really for the magnification, which is only one and a half times, but so I can close focus on the little chaps.
I' reached 'that stage' in life a few years ago where I really needed bi-focal glasses and the optivisor was a much cheaper compromise. (For me, at least.)

Yes, I've reached 'that stage' too. 
Varifocals for me but they're a ruddy nuisance for painting and sculpting so I take them off and squint

I might give an optivisor a go.

Cheers

Hugh

Quote from: capthugeca on 06 June 2011, 10:11:42 PM
so I take them off and squint
Hugh

Ah someone else using that tried and tested technique 

Quote from: Germy on 07 June 2011, 07:04:46 AM
Ah someone else using that tried and tested technique 

Yes, but my wife warns me that one day I'm going to get stuck like that! 

Hah !....You two are lucky....I can't focus both eyes on the same thing if I take my glasses off ! (VERY short sighted... )

But with the optivisor flipped over my normal 'distance' specs, I can see perfectly well.
Not sure how well your vari focals would work with the optivisor Hugh, but I'm guessing you're intending to use them with the naked eye....That should be fine...I'd be very surprised if you didn't think they worked really well.

Cheers - Phil.

Really great modelling and like the design too - will make a great chaos mutant. The only bit i'm not keen on is the hair - would prefer either a full mane or none. Is this a competition entry by an amateur or a preview of a figure by a Pendraken modeller?

Hi Dunnadd.

You're quite right about the current 'mane'.....Looks rather 'waffy'....
No.....I'm not entering this in the comp....It's supposed to be a 'stage by stage, how to', to hopefully give people a bit of a helping hand.

If Leon and Dave want it when it's finally finished, they can have it as a dungeon 'beastie'.....The trouble I'm having, is finding time to do this, while I work on other wee soldiers....So it's a little more rushed than I would have liked.  ....Which is why the whole head's 'gotta go'....I'll finish it eventually !! 

Cheers - Phil.

I like the quiff! 

Oh dear.....
'Jim's' completely quiffless now.
Cheers - Phil.

Phil's latest update on Jim:

Oh dear......Shows the head 're-done' and his sword soldered into position.......As Homer Simpson would say..."Doh !! It just gets worse and worse !"
More major surgery to come methinks !.....Head looks WAY too big !...PANTS !!!!

Well...

Since I sent Leon the pic....Jim has had a 'headechtomy' (sic)....and transplant...He thanks all his friends for their get well cards...flowers..grapes etc...
But would prefer everyone to know that his best prezzies have been the lumps of rotting flesh he's received...He's been scrumming those down !!

The bandages will be off very soon...and his new visage will be available for all to see...

He still looks **** as far as I'm concerned...But don't tell Jim that !

Cheers - Phil

Is his old head to become scenic detail on his base?

Hmmmm...Maybe ....It could do, perhaps.... To me, the old head looks like a cross between a wild boar and some VERY unspecified doggy, which is why I hate it...Apart from the fact that it's got out of scale by oodles.

Or...I'll just save it for something else at a later date....(Which is where Jim's new head....as yet unseen, has come from.... )...I never throw anything away...Finding something is another matter though !!!

Cheers - Phil.

PS.... As the 'hyena's' mane's gone now....'Jim' may end up with spiky things on his back. - P

....The headectomy and transplant:



.....Plastic surgery on the face and arm/hand:


Still work to do....The lower jaw looks 'very iffy'....."Nurse...The screens !"

Dr Phil.....Oh no...Surgeons are Misters aren't they ?....In that case.... Mr Phil.

Thanks again for putting those up for me Leon.

Just to confirm....The head is something that I had sitting in a 'bits box'....But it seemed to be far better scale wise....although it needed a bit of work done on it

There's a bit of work to clean up the shoulder pad where yours truly hacked the original head off....Also I want to neaten up the lower jaw....But I feel that I'm starting to get somewhere now.....Fairly close to finishing.....I HOPE !!

The temptation is.... to be far too much of a smart arse with the sword, and put pretty little circular notches in it....Nah !!!...It'll probably break and I'll have a hissy fit!

Just for your information... The 'blue stuff' forming the sword is Sylmasta A+B...(Obviously the blue version)...This is a putty not dissimilar to Milliput and useful for 'straight line' work.
I tend to use different colours of this particular putty to stick dollies to corks when I'm doing  different ranges of models....And I don't want to put the wrong type of weapons on the wrong type of models....If that makes sense ...I hope it does !!

Cheers - Phil.