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Legs on legs!
Well, I'm still working on it, but I felt like taking a break from trying in vain to sculpt some sort of bone details, so I took some pictures instead.
I stuck a quick plasticard spacer between the dreadnought's right arm and the torso - I'll use a bit of putty to smooth that whole area out overnight, since I can't be bothered to deal with waiting for the stuff to dry while I'm still working on things. The arms are also magnetized on now, in the event I need to remove them for game reasons (weapon destroyed) or I ever feel like making a hurricane bolter arm.
I also decided to see if I could play on the skeletal appearance of the dreadnought a bit. I filed the groin plate down and puttied it smooth, and then used some of the newer skeleton plastics to make a pair of legs hanging off the front and curling down between the legs.
I think it's a neat look with the ribs and skull right above it - better than the dodgy-cast purity seal that was there earlier. There were some bubbles on the underneath of that whole groin plate that I got to fill while doing all this.
I need to add some sort of additional armor plating to the upper leg area, on either side of the hips - nothing really clever's struck me yet, though.
Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with it so far. I need to add an engine to the back, and then do a fair bit of legion-related detailing - see if I can't get some bone textures and flames on the open spaces, and skulls everywhere else.
I've also been thinking a narrow banner that hangs between the two launchers up top might be a nice touch, but I'm waiting to see what I do to the launchers themselves before I start filling that area in.
One last picture for fun's sake:
More to come!
June 9th, 2010
January 23rd, 2010
Looking good! I like what’s happening with overall proportion and see no real need to fill in the armpit hardpoints with anything bulky. You might want to try matching your pelvis mounted leg bones to the reliquary look of the bone details on the legs- bands to hold the bones in place at least, sinking them into some sort of gothic alcove if possible.
January 23rd, 2010
Consider the leg-bands done! I just grabbed a bit of floral wire and took care of that.
January 24th, 2010
Haha, you clever man.
January 26th, 2010
Niiice I want to see it painted ^^