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(vanvlak @ Feb. 01 2008,10:13)
QUOTE Nice avatar Reaver, by the way. 
Glad you like it Van!
I pinched it from here.
There's a few different Marine/Tank/Titan animations there.
And Aaron, here's a pic of the stuff I've sculpted and cast up so far:
Okay, back to the Mars class Warhound. Probably the best way to make one would be to convert a FW Lucius Warhound. That way, there'd be a lot less work to do. Sadly, I don't have one, and would feel way too guilty about cutting it up if I did. Which means starting from scratch. So I've put together a list of all the bits I'll need to do.
Ball joint
Foot
Lower leg
Mid leg
Upper leg
Hip drum
Pelvis
Lower body
Upper Body
VMB front
Plasma Blastgun front
Universal gun back end
Head
Giving me 13 parts to sculpt. Of course, that list would leave me with a one-legged Titan. So I'm going to make simple, one-piece moulds of various parts, and cast up the rest of the bits I need. This should hopefully make it faster, and give you an intro to basic moulding and casting.
So, onto the sculpting. I've grabbed bits of time here and there over the last 24 hours, and used spare bits of putty to make this:
It's a foot. (Hoping you could already tell that. If not, this sculpt could be in trouble...)
How did I make it?
First up, I downloaded the instructions on building the FW 40K Warhound from there website. It's for a Lucius pattern, but that doesn't matter for the feet. I copied this image:
And with a bit of cut and paste in a photo-editing program, did this:
Then using Ragnarok's measurements, I resized it to this:
Then I used a little technique I like to call... Cheating!
I printed the image off, so I had could put the pic flat on my desk, then I put a piece of acetate over it. (Get it from any artshop, people use it for glasspainting and stuff. I nicked my wife's!) Then I started laying ProCreate (PC from now) putty over it. I just built up the basic shape, like this:
I let that dry, then I had this:
Then I started building up the next layer, and again left it to dry. You can speed up drying time with a 'putty oven'. There's lots of instructions on the net on building these, but mine's super-simple. A small tile, wrapped in kitchen foil. On top of that, and old bean can, with both ends cut out. And then an angle-poise desk lamp which I point into the top. Works really well, costs nothing.
So finally, I added the remaining details, let it dry and carefully peeled it off the acetate. And that's it, one finished Warhound foot!
I'll post more as I get it done. No promises though, this is strictly a spare time project - and the wife wants the kitchen painting this weekend... 
regards,
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