Possibly Paint table Saturday?

Well not really I haven't yet had time to put paint to brush let alone brush to miniature. I was however successful in using google hangout to tech my friend how to use the macro settings on his camera to take clear pictures of the Swamp Monster pictured above. That's the last we'll see of that beastie ladies and gentlemen.

I've been having some trouble with my computer running hot I thought I had issues with my cooling fans, but that was not the case the power supply is on its way out. Now I have well I suppose you can call it an antique custom built PC gamers tower from 2000. The guts are really more 2009 as I've replaced everything, these old school towers are so big that even my huge hands have work room. I removed the cooling fans cleaned & oiled them then put them back. I've order a new power supply from China and everything should be good when I get it next week. I'd like to take a moment to point out that my 4 yrd DVD/CDROM drive died on me, I reconnect the one that originally came with the tower and after 14 years it works fine. There are no words suitable for mixed company to describe the cheapness of today's computer parts.

Lunatic R has been building a Victorian corner store from foamcore I hope to have in progress shots up tomorrow.

Please stand by regularly scheduled Blogging will resume shortly.

Sorry for the recent intermission to your regularly scheduled blogging. I was forced spend the past two weekends attending mandatory classes to get a new work related license. Sadly because of this all hobby related activities including following all my favorite blogs came to a crashing halt. I will get a free weekend again at the end of this week so I expect to resume regularly scheduled blogging again Sunday.

Above is a snap shot of the Privateer Press Hordes Swamp Monster conversion I undertook for a friend. I understand he's been terrify opponents all ready. Sorry for the picture quality apparently the beastie refused to sit still for his photo. I hope to get some proper photos in the future. 

Paint Table Saturday #14, or acutually Sunday

My hobby progress has been admittedly slow. There are very few figures on my work space. The majority of my hobby time has been devoted to the Swamp Monster conversion here you can see I've attached the front reaching tentacles. You can see some GW LOTR figures in the background for Slumming in Goblin Town.

The Beast is finished for me his owner has taken him to paint him up so he will now slink of to the bog he came from.

Hopefully I will begin work on the Lledo horse drawn fire engine next week.

Sofie's Sculpt Table Saturday?

 

Working on the Beast.

Tiger oversees the work.

Sculpting not painting was my hobby activity this Saturday in fact I didn't get the paints out at all. I was goaded into trying to complete "the Beast" a second hand favor for a friend. The "Beast" is a Hordes miniature form Privateer Press called the swamp monster.

This is a random image of the miniature painted I took from the internet.

Its a large figure on a 40mm base note the tentacles form a leg-like base for the miniature and they are in 2 pieces a right and left side. Well my friend didn't want his swamp monster to be run of the mill. He saw some enterprising modeler modify his like so.

This is what he wanted it to look like.

Now I've nicknamed this hefty miniature "the Beast" because this multi-part figure fits together about as well as your average Games Workshop monstrosity. A lot of filing and filling with milliput is required to simply fit it together the way it was intended and to that the need to saw in to little pieces the tentacle legs and you can see why I've named it the Beast.

My efforts with the tentacles blue-tacked on.

The body is finished and the tentacles have been assembled from the bits and sculpted into shape. I had to make the tentacles from cut up bits as you can see in the photos below.

In the end I've found this to be time consuming and I have to re-sculpt over them anyway so if I where ever to do something like this again I'll sculpt the tentacles a new.

Most of my Saturday was taken up helping a friend complete his art school assignment by posing for him. The upshot of this is that i may have a new profile photo what do you think?