Sunday, February 10, 2013

New Project: My Little War Pony!

I asked my caster Jacqualine if she had any fun suggestions for a new project to get me back in to sculpting again. Her wife had this idea of starting a Guard army made up of magical little ponies and calling them "War-Pwnies"  :)

Being a fan of Lauren Faust's work (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Powerpuff Girls), working on a My Little Pony sculpting project sounded like a great idea to me.

The figure is sized to fit on a standard 25mm base (the cork she's standing on is 25mm in diameter).

She doesn't look much like a pony without her mane and tails. I still need to work on those as well as her unicorn horn. Surprisingly, I'm rather enjoying working on this fun, wacky little project.


New project: Female Space Elf heads

Some progress on a set of female space elf heads.







W.I.P. Female Marine Biker Legs

I got a reminder that I haven't sculpted bike riding legs for the female space marines yet.

A bike riding band of powered armored Valkyries does have a definate appeal to it :)

So here's the start to what's probably going to be the last bits I do for these female marines.



I still need to work on sculpting her arms. Might just go ahead and sculpt more feminine scaled arm and hands for them as well to match the new smaller shoulder pads.

W.I.P. Arms for Female Infantry Troopers

Still working on sculpting the arm variations for the female soldiers:





It's kind of a pain getting their arms in the correct position to be able to hold a rifle. Sculpting those tiny little hands isn't easy either; it's almost as hard as sculpting faces and far more tedious. But it's slowly getting there.

Happy Lunar New Year!!

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

Happy Lunar New Year!!

Wishing you good fortune in The Year of the Snake.



















Tuesday, January 1, 2013

2013 Happy New Year!


Happy New Year!!

 新年あけましておめでとうございます! 


Wishing us all a wonderful year full of joy, prosperity and a very productive year for our hobbies in 2013 :)

I started a new job last year and been having way too much fun at work to find enough time to make  enough progress with my sculpting  to be worth posting.

Sorry about that :(

I'm working on finding a better balance between my professional and family obligations with personal time for myself as a hobbyist. Wish me luck!

Currently I'm working on finishing up the female grunts. Taking in your suggestions for more appropriately scaled arms, I've decided to sculpt posed arms for them myself.

Unfortunately sculpting tiny little hands has been a thorn in my side for the past few months. In my opinion, sculpting hands is even more difficult than faces at this scale. It's especially tedious having to sculpt multiple hands for each variant arm pose; might be time to seriously consider digital sculpting to reduce the redundant work of replicating hands.

Anyways, wish me luck and keep an eye out for updates on my projects.

Cheers!



Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Just a quick post showing the stuff that got sent to Jacqualine for casting  last week.


Included in the shipment were:

Female rкомисса́р (aka commissar)
- I decided not to sculpt the weapons since it would unnecessary delay getting the figure cast and I figured you would rather provide your own weapon-load-outs to suit your army anyways. 

Female marine scout torso
- for use with the usual scout legs (with modifications to the crotch) and IG arms with the female marine heads from the current sets.

Female marine torso with jump harness
- for use with separate assault posed legs. Jacqualine will be separating the torso of the current assault pose figures from their legs to offer them as separate components. 

Female marine helm with opened chin guard

- this is my own helm for my assault squad captain. I plan on doing variants with the face guard fully opened and one with it fully closed once I get the cast back.

Female marine legs

- one kneeling posed and another assault posed legs.

Smaller marine shoulder pads
-One is smaller than the other, but both are smaller than the standard marine pads. I prefer the larger of the tow but I'm going to leave it up to Jacqualine to decide which one she wants to cast up for us.

Next up on my work table are female and male champions of war and female soldiers: