Hello!
I don't paint neither i like it much, barely having painted a few miniatures in the last 25 years of tabletop gaming, and every time i get pushed to paint by others like it was mandatory drained even more my energies from it, leaving them at zero after some years.
What i enjoy a lot is creating, mainly terrain. After seing so many examples out there, mainly for 28mm, and how easy and how much it fits for Orks this kind of thing i saw an opportunity to do something new so i chose to sculpt my own miniatures, begining with Gargants.
After thinking much about it, and with a deeply rooted disrespect to glue due to many miniatures falling from their bases along the decades even with good glue, i thought on making them with as few parts as possible, while making an sturdy enough piece, leaving me with only option: using wood. Luckily, i had some pieces growing dust of a quite smooth and soft wood that hardly creates splints or breaks when cutting: Ayus, a tropical wood.
From that i measured the models i have at hand and compared with photos to get the size of rest, choosing to make some Supa-Stomps first as they are faster to make and less wood is wasted on what are probably failures as they are the first tries.
These are the first tries. Went for simple shapes based on 3rd edition models. I didn't have a clear image of what i wanted to make, while i had some clues, and i knew that the first ones would be no good, so i aimed to make many tests and leave the failures as proxies or for some emergency.
The idea was here to make the body and later worry bout the rest (weapons, head) after i had a more clear idea of what i wanted, but that has is problems, as i don't know if theses bodies are going to work with any kind of weapon i am going to design or if i have pieces that fit on those bodies. The idea with these were to make some drills below the shoulder pads for weapons, but it seems hard and the hull is a bit on the way of that, so lets see. Second and third are supposed to have two or three holes in those arms to look like the Mega Gargant or 1-2 edition Great Gargant.
Another problem i saw is the difference between real and perceived size, as there is both Supa-Stompa and Gargant sized ones in that photo but it is hard to tell who is who if looked from most angles, even though they are 1,5cm bigger in two axis. I dare you to find out, i tried it already in my club and no one guessed it right tlll now.
Suggestions and ideas are welcome.
