25 January 2015
03 January 2015
Friday Night Fights Boxer Sculpt WIP Complete
I'm finished with my first boxer for use with Two Hour Wargames' Friday Night Fights game. Overall I'm happy. The figure has some definite proportion issues, an unrealistic pose and a lot of surface roughness which, coupled with a brown ink wash makes him look like The Thing (Ben Grimm not John Carpenter). Still, I can claim I finally finished a project!
In addition to the satisfaction of finally finishing something, I learned a lot from this sculpt. I am now applying this experience to my next boxer effort, already in progress. Hopefully I learn from my mistakes and if I'm happy enough with the second fighter I will mold him for future castings.
The first two pictures show the completed figure with shoes and trunks. I elected not to waste time adding hair.
I made the mistake of priming the boxer gray which forced my to use multiple coats of flesh tone. While I was painting the flesh I dropped the fighter, breaking off his arms.
I felt sick, but luckily was able to hold the arms in place with CA glue (pic 3) and then get rid of the cracks with Milliput Super-Fine (pic 4). Unfortunately, the shoulders just don't look the same as they did prior to the break.
In addition to the satisfaction of finally finishing something, I learned a lot from this sculpt. I am now applying this experience to my next boxer effort, already in progress. Hopefully I learn from my mistakes and if I'm happy enough with the second fighter I will mold him for future castings.
The first two pictures show the completed figure with shoes and trunks. I elected not to waste time adding hair.
I made the mistake of priming the boxer gray which forced my to use multiple coats of flesh tone. While I was painting the flesh I dropped the fighter, breaking off his arms.
I felt sick, but luckily was able to hold the arms in place with CA glue (pic 3) and then get rid of the cracks with Milliput Super-Fine (pic 4). Unfortunately, the shoulders just don't look the same as they did prior to the break.
01 January 2015
Friday Night Fights Boxer Sculpt WIP
I purchased the boxing game Friday Night Fights from Two Hour Wargames a few days ago and I am already hooked. The game truly plays brilliantly solo, which is a rarity. I'll be doing an actual review in the near future, as soon as I get a few more matches under my belt.
In the meantime I decided to sculpt a few boxers for my bouts. Friday Night Fights can be played simply on a piece of paper with no counters whatsoever. I wanted to teach myself to sculpt however, so I figured making some boxers is as good an excuse as any.
The figure scale is 40mm to the eye, standing straight up. The medium is SuperSculpey Firm. The figure's a bit rough but since it's my first, I'm happy with it. The head is attached with glue right now; I still need to build up the neck region. The last steps before painting will be to dress the figure with shorts and shoes, as well as give him some hair.
The base is intentionally large as I plan on providing areas there to write in the boxer's statistics to minimize referencing data sheets.
In the meantime I decided to sculpt a few boxers for my bouts. Friday Night Fights can be played simply on a piece of paper with no counters whatsoever. I wanted to teach myself to sculpt however, so I figured making some boxers is as good an excuse as any.
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The figure scale is 40mm to the eye, standing straight up. The medium is SuperSculpey Firm. The figure's a bit rough but since it's my first, I'm happy with it. The head is attached with glue right now; I still need to build up the neck region. The last steps before painting will be to dress the figure with shorts and shoes, as well as give him some hair.
The base is intentionally large as I plan on providing areas there to write in the boxer's statistics to minimize referencing data sheets.
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