Alex.
Back in November-December 2015, I took some photos of the work in progress on the vignette I did for the Pleasant Surprise miniatures exchange.
The idea was a 40mm x 40mm vignette or unit filler with a story and a Nordland theme. There's a miniature ship (model within a model, classic!), an adolescent toying with it, and an older man watching. A teacher and a pupil. And two Perry sculpts meeting each other over a 20 years' distance. The ship I bought from Ral Partha Europe.
The pieces. I wanted to heavily convert the metal Perry. Instead of ruining a classic metal model, I ended up making a copy of his torso with Instant Mold. The model I used is inside the mold, the metal original is just to show the idea. The ship was a waterline model with sails, so I added the bottom of the hull and did new masts without sails.
This is what came out of the mold. Lots of mold lines and excess things to cut off. I used 50 % greenstuff and 50 % fine milliputt, with a copper wire frame inside. I find that optimal, since it combines the flexibility of greenstuff during sculpting and the hardness milliputt in the end product. You can both precision cut and file the result, something which is hard with greenstuff only. The right one shows the figure cleaned up and kitbashed together.
Sculpting finished & basecoating
Good way into painting.
Almost finished.
Didn't glue it together, but posted it as pieces and some guidance as to how to assemble it.
Not too complicated.
It's been 20 years since I've done dioramas/vignettes. Nice thing to do for awhile. I need to do a couple for my own Stirlanders too.
fbjorn took some good photos on the Vignette. Look for Pleasant Surprise VIII (2015), page 13, message #317.
And there's more! I've actually played Warhammer!
Here, my troops advance towards Dwarves, and a victory. (Old truth holds: painted beats unpainted.)
Planning for the following game, which was against Lateksimajava's Empire, and a loss for me. He managed to butcher my Greatswords to a man, I lost the Bodyguard (Stubborn), and my centre broke. Lateksimajava's thread has the pictures.
-Z