Adam Baker
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I've had this vignette kit in my stash for about 3 or 4 years, and I finally pulled it out yesterday in the hopes that I'd have the motivation to actually work on something. For several weeks now I've just had zero motivation to do any modeling, and it seems to have helped, I've been able to make some decent progress on this.
So this is whats in the kit:
Plaster base w/ groundworks
2 figures
2 "Tabe" beasts (look like a cross between an ostrich and a Star Wars Tauntaun).
Overall the sculpting is very nice and clean. The casting, not quite so much. There's a lot of flash, and most of the larger pieces have at least moderate mold seams where the mold didnt align correctly, so its making it find cleaning that up.
Close ups of the base.
The 2 figures. The woman will be holding a long spear, and the guy has a large sword on his back. I'd considered maybe adding rifles to the figures, but I decided not to. From what they're riding, their equipment and their clothing, they're obviously part of some kind of pre-industrial world, so I didn't think that guns would really fit with them.
The beasties
Last night & today I've worked on cleaning up the 2 Tabe's, and then this afternoon I got my paintbooth back up & running again (moved it last weekend) and primed the base so I could work on painting it. Since the base is bare plaster, I wanted to seal it with something so that I didnt have to worry about anything getting absorbed into the plaster and possibly ruining it.
Here's the base primed w/ Krylon Color Master grey primer. It ended up a bit darker than I was expecting, but I'm not really concerned about that.
I'll let it dry for a few days, and then probably start airbrushing it. The head will be a basic stone color, and then it'll get a dark wash to weather it and pull out all the details. The ground I'll probably start w/ some kind of light brown, and then go from there. The box art shows a rocky/desert like terrain, but I've thought about going with more of a light forested type thing, w/ grass & dirt for the ground, and then vines & such across the head, w/ some vegetation growing out of the large crack, but thats all up in the air still. I've got some Woodland Scenics packs w/ some static grass and some different ground foams, so I may use those. I'll just have to play with it.
This kind of thing is definitely well outside my normal comfort zone. I've started several figures in the past, but havent ever gotten much past the assembly & priming phase just b/c I get overwhelmed and stop working on them. I'm hoping with this one that I can push through that and get these painted, but we'll see. I've wanted to learn to do figures, but just cant seem to get over the hump to do it.
So this is whats in the kit:
Plaster base w/ groundworks
2 figures
2 "Tabe" beasts (look like a cross between an ostrich and a Star Wars Tauntaun).
Overall the sculpting is very nice and clean. The casting, not quite so much. There's a lot of flash, and most of the larger pieces have at least moderate mold seams where the mold didnt align correctly, so its making it find cleaning that up.
Close ups of the base.
The 2 figures. The woman will be holding a long spear, and the guy has a large sword on his back. I'd considered maybe adding rifles to the figures, but I decided not to. From what they're riding, their equipment and their clothing, they're obviously part of some kind of pre-industrial world, so I didn't think that guns would really fit with them.
The beasties
Last night & today I've worked on cleaning up the 2 Tabe's, and then this afternoon I got my paintbooth back up & running again (moved it last weekend) and primed the base so I could work on painting it. Since the base is bare plaster, I wanted to seal it with something so that I didnt have to worry about anything getting absorbed into the plaster and possibly ruining it.
Here's the base primed w/ Krylon Color Master grey primer. It ended up a bit darker than I was expecting, but I'm not really concerned about that.
I'll let it dry for a few days, and then probably start airbrushing it. The head will be a basic stone color, and then it'll get a dark wash to weather it and pull out all the details. The ground I'll probably start w/ some kind of light brown, and then go from there. The box art shows a rocky/desert like terrain, but I've thought about going with more of a light forested type thing, w/ grass & dirt for the ground, and then vines & such across the head, w/ some vegetation growing out of the large crack, but thats all up in the air still. I've got some Woodland Scenics packs w/ some static grass and some different ground foams, so I may use those. I'll just have to play with it.
This kind of thing is definitely well outside my normal comfort zone. I've started several figures in the past, but havent ever gotten much past the assembly & priming phase just b/c I get overwhelmed and stop working on them. I'm hoping with this one that I can push through that and get these painted, but we'll see. I've wanted to learn to do figures, but just cant seem to get over the hump to do it.
That base looks like it will be very cool. So what type of environment will you make it? I think it would cool in a sandy desert area myself.
