Pictures of the Warhammer Museum

Last october I visited Nottingham with a few friends of mine. Chiefly to visit Mantic Games` Open Day, but we also used the opportunity to visit GW HQ, including the Warhammer Museum and Bugman´s Bar.

Warhammer World was dissapointing to me. Just a bigger GW store, and I don´t exactly have a high opinion on those. Same old, same old.

Bugman´s Bar was nice, friendly staff and reasonably good food. But I really went there to get my grubby hands on an old Bugman miniature (the one standing on two barrels). I like dwarf miniatures, if you had not noticed yet.

The highlight of our excursion to Warhammer World was the miniature museum (if we don´t count the Bugman miniature). There´s not much to be said about it, it´s a room full of display cases with beautifully painted miniatures, great dioramas and, best of all, vintage Citadel miniatures.

If you find yourself in Nottingham and have an hour to spare, pay GW HQ a visit. There are worse ways to kill an hour.

The Maniac Also Paints- Barbarian Sculpt Painted

This weekend I made a mold for the barbarian I sculpted. As it turns out, the mold is heavily flawed and the detail is at some parts not very crisp. Oh well, I´ll chalk it up as a learning experience.
And how fitting, since the barbarian was a practice piece to begin with.

Despite the shortcomings of the mold and the resin casts made with it, I fixed one up and painted it. Since I tend to use the putty I think best suited for each situation, my sculpts tend to be colourful collages of different modelling clays and putties. However, I think that sometimes this makes it hard to properly judge a sculpt from pictures alone, especially when the very light grey of the FIMO clashes with the dark green of the Kneadatite.
A paintjob can help tie it all together properly.


Looking at the sculpt now, I feel that the axe looks a bit out of place. I might go ahead and make a new one, we´ll see...

Dwarf Lord Finished!

The deed is done.

This project has been on hiatus for quite some time, but now it´s done and I am quite pleased with the results.

The different colors on this model stem from the different putties I used: Green and brown stuff, ProCreate and Super Sculpey... it makes the sculpt look a bit colourful, but once painted that should hardly be noticeable.


On another note: I intend to pick up some pace when it comes to blogging here, and the intended goal is to post twice a week, mondays and thursdays.
Let´s find out how long I´ll keep this up...

Blast From the Past: My Very First Sculpt: Dwarf Ironbreaker

This is the first model I ever sculpted. I wanted some ironbreakers for my warhammer dwarf army, and I thought it might be fun to try and sculpt some myself. This is the first one I started, as well as the only one Iactually finished. This was well over a year ago, and I like to think that I have improved since these humble beginnings.

It should be rather obvious by now, but I really like dwarfs. So I thought it fitting to include a comparison shot, with different dwarf I sculpted /am sculpting. They are ordered from left to right, from the very first to the current WIP.

On to the model itself:
I remember struggling with the chainmail, and it taking several attempts to even get to the result you see on the image above. Needless to say it looks more than a bit "off", if you allow the understatement.

The model´s plain appearance stands in high contrast to the amount of time and effort this one took. But I did not have any practice nor experience, so it taking very long is not all that surprising.

I still quite like this model, although more for it´s sentimental value than it´s quality (or lack thereof). For a first try I don´t think it too horrible, and I learned a lot from sculpting it.

Blast From the Past: Alien Glider

This is a model I made over a year ago. A friend of mine was looking for "alternative means of transportation" for his eldar seer council. He bought some hover-board like models off the web, but they turned out to be made of thick paper and were absolutely useless for mounting metal miniatures on.
So I said I´d make him some "eldar" hover boards and the results can be seen above.

The circular indentation on the top of the glider is meant as a port for a turret-upgrade that never materialized. The idea was to have fully automated "drones" as stand-in jetbikes.
For the hover board versions I filled the port in befor moulding them.

I kinda still want to make that turret, but to be honest I have no idea what it should look like... maybe someday.

WIP Dwarf Berserker

First post in the new year!

Continuing to experiment and practice with the super sculpey I sculpted this dwarf berserker.

He is done entirely in super sculpey, except the armature, which is made from wire with a thin coat of green stuff. Sculpey has a tough time staying on the wires themselves, so the green stuff both strengthens the armature and provides a more adhesive surface.

Since super sculpey does not cure unless baked, I sculpted the entire body, boots, head and beard in one go, instead of working in small steps and letting the putty cure in between.

Of course the axe head is only stuck on the model for the photo, I can´t attach it yet, since the plastic would not survive the oven.