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Post subject: Combat servitor  Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:35 pm |
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Wow !!! That's Great ! I thought it was a bigger scale ! VERY CooL ! 
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Otterman
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:49 pm |
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Obligatory posts:
I could cast that.
In Soviet Russia, 6mm infantry photographs you!
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Evil and Chaos
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:02 pm |
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You should definitely send that to Otterman.
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Dwarf Supreme
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:07 pm |
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I bet there might be some interest in mass produced servitors. 
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Legion 4
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:14 pm |
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Damn Russkies ... But anyway, I'd buy a few of those ! 
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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Dave
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:19 pm |
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Vermis, how do you get the GS so smooth at this scale? Got any special tools/tricks/techniques you'd like to share?
Great job, that's a nice mini.
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Vermis
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:19 pm |
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Ta all!
I had a recent idea of sculpting up a sprue of 'mechister' characters, with a few cyborg bodyguards. I still have to finish that castable version of the mech-mage, but I hope to get back to it after a couple of other projects. Then knock a few more out to go with it.
Then I can send 'em to Otterman, as long as you don't mind giving them up if/when I ever set up my own little cottage/mom-and-pop business (which, to be fair, isn't going to happen anytime soon). 
I don't want to send this cyborg. It includes non-vulcanisable plasticard, for one thing. I realise that doesn't matter much for resin casting, but I want to get into the habit. Anyway, I picked up a tip from Bob Naismith and started using milliput superfine white, which is easier to shape than styrene IMO.
And some niggling proportion problems, for another thing.
I just need people to get angry and impatient with me. Shocking lack of motivation and attention span, don't you know.
Dave: don't use it straight. 
I think I only used it straight to fix the armature. Any green bits showing are GS + apoxie sculpt (a bit like GS + milliput), which makes smoothing easier. The grey bits are procreate, which is also great with it's smoothing properties and lack of memory.
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Napalm
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:28 pm |
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Location: Paris, France
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Good sculpting !
Looks a bit like Xmen's cyclops.
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Otterman
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:55 pm |
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I have to admit to some slacking on my own part, having never contacted Reaper to see what a tooling/casting quote would be on something like this.
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kev101
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:54 am |
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vermis
what tools do you use and what products gs,pro,milli
as i know i will not be as good as you at this but i'd like to a chance
but skill is skill and i do know no tool or product can replace
thanks kev
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Vermis
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:27 am |
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Putty. I knew that would come in useful.
Some of my tools. I have a tendency to bang on about them (no surprise there), so settle in.
The first, and the one I use the most, is an 'improved' GW tool. I went at it with needle files and it turned out surprisingly easy to grind down. I took off the irregular and ragged edges, filed the round end to a slightly convex leaf shape (not so easily seen there), sharpened the blade, and tried to make some kind of Wax-5-esque shape - although in retrospect I'd keep the hook and lose the spike. I polished it with fine grade (wet 'n' dry) sandpaper, and I would've dipped it in floor wax but it seems to be okay without it.
Homemade stuff:
I never used the loop tool, so I binned it. The others are useful, particularly for 6mm. A pin tool, a bamboo skewer tool from one of Reaper's articles (bamboo chopsticks are good for larger tools), and a thick needle made from the leftover skewer.
I have a few other tools that come in useful at times. Most used is your bog-standard hobby knife/scalpel. Also, clay shapers, darning needles, and the end of a mechanical pencil for occasional rivets, among others.
Obligatory pimping: Heresy's fine range of tools. The leaf shape on my GW tool is based on the one in the 6-pack.
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kev101
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Post subject: Combat servitor Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:43 pm |
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thanks for the info i'll do some ordering today .
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