Quote: (Ghudra @ Dec. 09 2009, 16:00 )
Quote: (Warmaster Nice @ Dec. 09 2009, 04:49 )
Here's a pic of the pre-production model. The green stuff was added in order to strengthen the model for production moulding. I'm not sure exactly what the quality is for the production models, but there's bound to be further detail loss.
Those are lumpy indeed, but the pose is spot on and I can already see where claws & putty would go.
Far, far easier to get a bunch of the "Lumpys" than skin up a mess of fiddly 6mm wire figs with putty.
Indeed. The problem is that metal won't really hold the kind of detail we're after here. For infantry metal has a tendency of softening the details, and obviously metal won't flow into very thin areas either. Some interesting results could be achieved by "peeling" slices of metal off the model and supplementing with small surfaces of greenstuff that you stretch untill it breaks for the flayed look. A better result
might have been achievable in resin, but basically it is really difficult to make something look intentionally messed up in 6mm without it looking accidentally messed up ÂÂ
I think Bob Naismith achieved this pretty well with the Zombies. The secret is the art of suggestion: Don't try to reproduce exact detail as it would lok on a 28mm model. Instead he made maybe one or two slightly exaccerated sharply defined wounds on the Zombies, and some simple ragged bits of clothing. The rest was achieved through the pose of the models. Simple but effective.
I found this pic of the original green for comparison.
 I'll work with'm ... 
 We can start a new thread "How I detailed my Skin Jobs!" ... 
 Heck ... I put Ghillie Suits on Ratlings ... this should be no problem ...  
