Custom sculpted Fell Caller from Hordes Primal, and a Sepulchral lurker

[Crusoe the Painter]

This guy is a trollkin Fell Caller, and is based on the artwork from the Primal rulebook for Hordes from Privateer Press.

He stands about 30mm tall to the top of his head. I plan on tattering and extending the tartan between his legs some.

The material is Procreate epoxy putty, a new product expressly made for miniatures sculpting.

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The other guy is a monster from Privateer's Monsternomicon called a "Sepulchral Lurker". The wonky anatomy on the arms is intentional, it's based on the artwork.

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[nanook]

though i'm not a role-playing-game guy, i've often marvelled at those tiny trolls and troopers and asked myself that one question over and over again:
how could anyone work so much detail into something that small?
Heck, you must have a set of those watchmaker's-magnifying-goggles - or what...?
and that stuff cures quite fast, dusnit? so you have to be a speed sculptor - or at least someone who knows what he's doing...
great work

[zantergog]

I really like the sculpts, i rarely attempt 25mm (30 if its GW) scale, it does require practice. The fell caller is great and I love the smoke/flame. Where can i get some of this procreate putty ? I know i could 'google' it but I enjoy the community !
whats it's work time?
Also if you worked from a ref pic, did you invent the back of the piece, can you post some pics of his back pls :)

[realitychek]

Wow! I've tried sculpting much bigger and it's hard enough lol Absolutely amazing how much detail and the like you fit in these guys. I've worked with epoxy and it cures fast! Very nicely done!

[StarFyreXXX]

GW is 28 mm I believe. Same with reaper ...

And yes, most miniature sculptors use green stuff, proCreate (new stuff) or similar. THese are binary epoxy clays (combine em and they harden in few hours VERY strong).

One reason they are used is they are MUCH stronger than supersculpey... and are epoxies so they stick things better than glues.

However, some companies use Fimo which u also need to bake (but still stronger than supersculpey apparently).

I am new to sculpting, but due to time, i prefer supersculpey but I wish this stuff was as strong as apoxysculpt/green stuff.

I want to try procreate and see how it does.

Sanjay

[zantergog]

GW do tend to 'range' into the 30mm bracket. I have some figures from way back, early marines, and you can see the difference compared to the modern stuff. I know on the vechicles they use a pentagraph machine to scale down from a much bigger level. It allowes you to put in a lot more detail. I'm wondering if they do this for the figures?

[Pezz]

I have a hard time using green stuff for arnything more than little modifications as it hardens so quickly -- which is probably due to my horrible prep time and my on-the-fly attitude. However, I was thinking of making larger bloodthirster type daemons (gw) in super sculpey and making fiberglass replicas but i'm not sure if it'd work out so well.

[jega74]

WOW I like very much your second works!
Bravo!

[Crusoe the Painter]

Thank you for the comments. I try to get better as time goes on. :)

More and more people are carrying procreate all the time, so it's best to just google it.

Epoxy puttys are popular because you can toss them right in the vulcanizer and make a master mold from them. The polymer clays can't take the heat or pressure, so usually a RTV mold is made from them, and then metal masters are cast into that.

I don't use jewlers googles. I use custom carved bamboo skewers for sculpting tools.