(Minature) Homemade "Norse" Warrior

[Drakmar]

well. .I have almost finished the warrior.. added a fur cloak.. and now I just have to make the feet slightly bigger.

then.. I just have to outsource the painting.

 

[Drakmar]

correction. feet done.
minature done.
now for the painting.. and a good pic for all you lovely people.

 

[Drakmar]

the minature is now complete. I might add a little bit of fluff.. (Hrothgar worships Pelor - so I might add a sun motiff to his maul or belt buckle)

to be painted.

 

[Sanackranib]

mini's

that turned out quite well (if you cast it I want one!)

 

[Tewligan]

Re: mini's

that turned out quite well (if you cast it I want one!)

I'm with Sanackranib - that's a nice piece of work there, Drak. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.

Oh, and as an aside, I'm pretty positive that good ol' Hrothgar would be uncastable - apparently, the casting process applies a lot of heat and pressure to the master fig, which would probably do unpleasant things to all of Hrothgar's plastic parts. On the upside, though, you have a one-of-a-kind fig that's pretty damn cool.

Ahh, these homemade figs please me - both the seeing and the sculpting. My homemade fighter/mage is freshly finished - perhaps I'll fire up the camera tonight and get a picture up. Next on my "in the works" list is a drow assassin (in crazy-ass spider armor), and a dimensional shambler for Call of Cthulhu. Pictures soon to come!

 

[Drakmar]

thanks guys. I will see if I can cast this one. I have a mate who used to make duplicates of minatures. he had some trick to doing it that didn't destroy the old mini.. I may have to cut an arm off to do it though.

yeah it did turn out well.. now I just have to finish his buddies (some of the other "norse" characters in the campaign.. but they are just "lite" conversions of plastic GW mini's)

so.. come-on guys.. get yer camera's rockin'

 

[Sanackranib]

casting

what about making a plaster mold of him and using a metal with a low meling point like lead or sodder

 

[Drakmar]

yeah.. that is basically what I will try.. but I will use something else rather than plaster, it tends not to do high enough detail to my memory.. but I could be wrong.. I have a two part epoxy putty (not green stuff) that is used for fixing various household stuff, that may be suitable. we shall see.

 

[Sanackranib]

mini casting

keep us posted, enquireing minds want to know

 

[Jshock_75]

You could try using RTV rubber to make the mold (automotive gasket rubber works well) and then gravity cast it. That gets around destroying the plastic bits.