Hunter Rose Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 1/30/2018 at 2:25 AM, GMK said: Excellent progress as always - any chance of an overall pic with something alongside for scale reference (bottle of beer, Eiffel Tower, aircraft carrier?)? Thanks dude! Yeah sure thing, hope a tin of beans does the job! 20180130_131148 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Right I have been working on him, and as you can also see in the above photo I've started blocking out the open damaged alien bud, did this by putting a bit of foil around it and then wrapping it with armature wire 20180129_133535 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180129_133751 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180129_134222 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180129_134228 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then I started adding clay, this one only has two supports because the third petal will be damaged where the space explorer has already lasered off one of them 20180130_131957 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180130_132658 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180130_133333 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180130_134103 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So the basic shape is their, next up I'll start refining and nailing down detail, whilst I had the wire out I also made a start on the larger open bud that will be underneath him. Started by making a paper shape just to check size and rough position and then made my wire armature for it. 20180126_134533 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180127_160432 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180127_160450 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180127_160441 by Nick Frost, on Flickr But for now I'll mostly be focusing on the ones on the base, as this one will be baked separately anyway I want the main piece to be finished and sculpted asap. And once again I'm running low on clay so that will be a 3rd block I need to order soon Thanks for looking, more soon 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpopandchips Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 The bean really set the scale, looking great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Feed me Seymour! Looks much better without the pastie lip 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 12 hours ago, Mike said: Feed me Seymour! Im surprised no one thought about “Little shop of horrors” before this. Ive been holding back because I didnt want to say it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalbert Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Im surprised no one thought about “Little shop of horrors” before this. Ive been holding back because I didnt want to say it. Ditto lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 4:43 PM, Mike said: Feed me Seymour! Looks much better without the pastie lip Thanks Mike, it definitely does! It was one of those modelling moments where as I was doing it in the back of my head a little voice was saying "this looks crap" On 2/1/2018 at 5:10 AM, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Im surprised no one thought about “Little shop of horrors” before this. Ive been holding back because I didnt want to say it. On 2/1/2018 at 7:55 AM, fatalbert said: Ditto lol Its cool guys me and others have been referencing Audrey II and even an alien pod since I started on the buds, all jokes welcome! On 1/31/2018 at 4:24 PM, rockpopandchips said: The bean really set the scale, looking great. Good old Heinz does the job! Cheer Brian, and in the context of the little shop of horror references you have the honour of being the first person who mentioned it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Another small update, just been working on the open bud again, fleshing it out with some more clay around the edge and smoothing it over. 20180131_132836 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180131_133806 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I rolled out another flat bit for the middle to build up an area to add some detail and smoothed it on. 20180201_131656 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180201_132156 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I started on a bit of detail, added some soft ridges like you get on the roof of the mouth. 20180201_132739 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180201_133146 by Nick Frost, on Flickr But at this point I wasn't happy that the middle of the petal protruded more than the lip, that didn't seem right so I rolled out a long sausage of clay and smoothed it on the outside only 20180202_133004 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Smoothed the whole lot over with some surgical spirit 20180202_133947 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180202_133952 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Happy with that, it looks like a seal for when it closes up and where there is an inner crease thats where I'll add some teeth. But I'll add those last so I'm not knocking them and repairing them continually! I started to tidy the underside a bit too, added another root to cover where the armature was still poking through and it looked very rough. 20180202_134409 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So next I'll add a bit more root work to the underside ( I had added another but forgot to take a pic!) and I'll copy what I've done to the other undamaged petal. Thanks for looking, more soon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noeyedears Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 nice to see the "behind the scenes" process. of this modelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Thanks noeyedears! I always try to be thorough with wips so appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 Right so I've been doing more gardening on Rigel 7! Been working on the other petal, started by smoothing it over and working the shape into something more final 20180205_132148 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180205_132234 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180205_133328 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then I needed to build up a dip to make the surface more even, so I added more clay and blended it in 20180205_133429 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180205_133517 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180205_133557 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180205_133730 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then I used my ball stylus' to add the ridges which were tidied up by brushing over some surgical spirit 20180205_134337 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Afterwards I started on the lip detail so I rolled a thin sausage of clay and began blending it in the same way as the other petal. 20180206_132452 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180206_132618 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180206_132753 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180206_132950 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then I again smoothed it over with surgical spirit, and also put similar bits of detail on the bottom of the damaged petal. 20180206_133315 by Nick Frost, on Flickr After that I started mucking about with a blob of clay to make an inner mouth part, I added some thin bits of clay and smoothed them over to build up 4 lips 20180206_134027 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180206_134155 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then I put it into the centre of the flower bud using a little surgical spirit to act as slip and blending the edges to help fix it firmly in place 20180206_134447 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180206_134455 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So that ones pretty much done, I'll add a few more roots around the bottom, and then I'll move on to the big closed bud that he's shot with his laser. Thanks for looking, more soon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpopandchips Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I like how the plant is starting to look, the little bud/mouth is great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Chees Brian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Another small update! Cant remember if I've mentioned it earlier but I'm using a beam sabre from a 1/60 gundam as the laser beam shooting out of his gun into the alien bud at the front. Just needed to get this out and check exactly where its going to hit the bud so I can make sure I leave a gap in my blocking out to allow for a hole. 20180207_131814 by Nick Frost, on Flickr After checking its actually more on the edge than I thought it would be. 20180207_131713 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So I cut a chunk of the armature out as this is where the impact will be and I want plenty of blast radius from the beam impact point 20180207_132034 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then it was just a matter of putting tight balls of foil in and then wrapping it all tightly with wire. 20180207_133049 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180207_133325 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180207_133935 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Right so thats where hes up to, I've only got a tiny bit of sculpey left so before I can carry on with that I need to get another block of clay, so thats 2 pounds he weighs currently! Once I've got that ordered I'll carry on with the damaged bud, and I'm starting to plan out the hands too, no baking for them so I may get some 1/6 hands to use as a ready made armature with some greenstuff. Thanks for looking, more soon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Simply amazing - takes me back to the triffids on the beeb in the 80's 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Just done a catch up, It's coming along very nicely since the last time I looked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 10, 2018 Author Share Posted February 10, 2018 On 09/02/2018 at 6:46 PM, Gimme Shelter said: Simply amazing - takes me back to the triffids on the beeb in the 80's Cheers dude! And good reference! I always loved the book and the old 60's movie 23 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Just done a catch up, It's coming along very nicely since the last time I looked. Thanks Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 Okay so I have some hands! I found an old 1/6 Jin Roh figure I had kicking about and after checking them against the statue size-wise they are pretty spot on for use as an armature to build on. 20180213_131251 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Had to slice them down to the bottom of the palm, which was crazy easy as its soft vinyl. 20180213_131435 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I drilled out a hole and fit them on just to see how they looked and was pleased they looked the right size for bare hands 20180214_133040 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180214_133057 by Nick Frost, on Flickr So I started on his gauntlets by adding sculpey to the left hand, I was going to cover it completely and then use tools to mark out the fingers but it was much easier to to cover the palm and get it neat at the base of the fingers and then individually wrap them with sculpey 20180219_130839 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_131141 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_131812 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_131820 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_132001 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_132507 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_134215 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180219_134902 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180220_132459 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180220_132510 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then after a little more neatening of the fingers I placed it back on the armature to check how its shaping up 20180220_133252 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180220_133303 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Happy with how its looking so far, I'll start adding some more details next, and once its done it will be boiled to harden (so I dont melt the plastic hand armature) and added at the end after all baking is done so I can then use greenstuff to make the wrist connection. Thanks for looking, more soon 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carts Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 "Well,give that Man a Hand".............................................................Sorry Looking great,any thoughts on colour scheme yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 10 hours ago, Carts said: "Well,give that Man a Hand".............................................................Sorry Looking great,any thoughts on colour scheme yet? Yeah leaning towards grey and orange, with some dark alclad metallic thrown in. I like the idea of his chest piece being bright orange with some numbers/id bands on against a dark grey armour, I've not nailed anything down yet but thats the colours I have in mind 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpopandchips Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 The hand looks great and the colours sound good to me. What are you doing about his gun, are you making one yourself or using a pre-built something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 1 hour ago, rockpopandchips said: The hand looks great and the colours sound good to me. What are you doing about his gun, are you making one yourself or using a pre-built something? Thanks Brian! I need to get an led in the gun so it'll probably be mostly made up by me for the sake of ease, still thinking about how it'll look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 Sorry for slow progress over the last couple of weeks, Ive been waiting on more sculpey to arrive which should be with me tomorrow. With the little I have left I started on the gun hand in the same way as the other, laying clay over my 1/6 hand 20180222_132442 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180222_133254 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180222_133742 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180223_131503 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180223_131512 by Nick Frost, on Flickr The fingers are pressed closer together than the other hand, so I had to wrap sculpey over and then trim down the excess and use my tools to get back the finger definition. 20180223_131942 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180223_132824 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And both hands had ended up a little rounded on the edges at the bottom, so I added more clay to allow me to lengthen them slightly and square of the ends with trimming. 20180225_152910 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180225_153410 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180225_153534 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180225_153542 by Nick Frost, on Flickr 20180225_153750 by Nick Frost, on Flickr And then I just took a quick photo with them in place just to show how they look. 20180225_153922 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Next up I'll trim the wrist bit down slightly on both and add some details. Thanks for looking, more soon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Looking good there. All coming together now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hello @Hunter Rose ... I hate to bring this up but i think it need to be said/asked. The vinyl hands are a great basis for his hands no arguments there. Your work on them is excellent. Question I have is this ? Will vinyl survive the oven drying ? I know your original plastic arm cover didn't when you did your firing in the oven. I wonder if the Vinyl will or will you get a melted mess ? Sorry to throw a proverbial 🐒🔧 into your work. I’d rather do that than see all your good work liquify. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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