I have just found this Kickstarter project!Anatomy for Sculptors looks like an amazing book and extremely useful for any figure sculptor.I’ve backed (without hesitation)! As I write this there are only a few hours left on the Kickstarter, so I suggest …
Well, I thought I would let you know that my first 15mm sculpt is now available in the SHM range from 15mm.co.uk! Priced at 65p each, they are a unique race for your 15mm scifi gaming, painting or collection. For those who like a little fluff backgroun…
The two Up! Plus 3D printers arrived in the workshop last week and now that I have had a chance to play around with them I am reasonably pleased and I think they will be very useful (once I get the hang of designing 3D stuff on the computer). As with t…
I have not had much time recently to experiment with the new equipment that is coming into the workshop. However, I did manage to run a couple of quick samples through the new milling machine. The software that runs the miller works with .stl files and…
My posts about the laser cutter have been some of the most popular articles I have done on this blog. We are upgrading the workshop at the moment which has meant I haven’t had access to a lot of my machinery over summer (including the laser cutter). …
I seem to have been very busy with lots of different things over the past few months but I haven’t actually produced much that I can talk about here on the blog. I have been trying to get my head around some vector graphics design software (Se…
I recently had to sculpt a figure and add a strip to the base of the figure that would fit into a plastic “slotta base”. Normally, I would use a pre-cast metal strip (I received a good supply of them from my caster many years ago), however I ran ou…
Sometime last year, in a discussion on a popular miniatures forum, I left a comment on a discussion of some miniatures photos. I had been doing my usual surf around the forums and spotted these these photos in passing. I wasn’t familiar with the comp…
Being British and of a generation that didn’t celebrate Halloween (until the retail industry took it up as a way of making some quick cash), this time of years has always been more about Bonfire Night (Guy Forkes Night) than Halloween to me. However,…
Miniature sculptors, generally, either use two part epoxy putties or polymer clays. First off, I am going to look at epoxy putties and with this article the mainstay of figure sculpting for many years, “Greenstuff”. Epoxy Putty is supplied in two p…
In my previous two figure sculpting articles I have covered some references and also a look at scale and proportion in figures. This time I am going to start getting down to the nitty gritty… When you actually start to sculpt figures, at whatever …
Super glues or more correctly Cyanoacrylates are very useful for model making and I am sure many of you are already familiar with them.However there are many pros and cons to using superglue and I am going to cover a few of those just now.Cyanoacrylate…
I have heard about this stuff on several occasions. In fact I know someone who used it to reduce the size of some Pictish carved standing stones that he sculpted, down in size to sell as small paperweights. I have never tried it personally, and with t…
Not a lot to say about this really, a well sculpted representation of Frazetta’s Death Dealer, sculpted by William Paquet, cast in Bronze and limited to only 13 castings, can be bought from Sideshow Collectibles for a tidy $4000!See more of Quara…
Not a lot to say about this really, a well sculpted representation of Frazetta’s Death Dealer, sculpted by William Paquet, cast in Bronze and limited to only 13 castings, can be bought from Sideshow Collectibles for a tidy $4000!See more of Quara…
I am not a great fan of busts, I have always preferred my sculpts to be full bodied, however, the quality of sculpting on this bust (and Casey Love’s other work) is just fantastic. It really captures the feel of these fearsome beasts that terrorise…
I am not a great fan of busts, I have always preferred my sculpts to be full bodied, however, the quality of sculpting on this bust (and Casey Love’s other work) is just fantastic. It really captures the feel of these fearsome beasts that terrorise…
Quite a whimsical piece this, and not a style that I would normally be attracted to. However the execution of the sculpture is really very nice. Not detailed to a minute scale, but finished in a very polished and quirky way. I love the whole balance…
Quite a whimsical piece this, and not a style that I would normally be attracted to. However the execution of the sculpture is really very nice. Not detailed to a minute scale, but finished in a very polished and quirky way. I love the whole balance…
I have always found it difficult to understand the mentality of sand sculptors, don’t get me wrong, some do some absolutely stunning work, it is simply the total temporariness of the art that I cannot get around. To put so much effort into somethi…
I was tidying up a box of figures the other day and I found my very first figure sculpt. I made him around 1986/7 while at college doing my model making course. We had a very active roleplaying group, I used to play every Wednesday evening ( MERP and t…
This is an absolutely wonderful piece of model making! Frutti di Mare by muhani, one of the contributing bloggers from the figure painting blog Massive Voodoo, shows mastery of a wide range of model making skills. From the first-class paint j…
This is an absolutely wonderful piece of model making! Frutti di Mare by muhani, one of the contributing bloggers from the figure painting blog Massive Voodoo, shows mastery of a wide range of model making skills. From the first-class paint j…
A bit of a change from the usual figure sculpture. Today I am showcasing the wonderful model making skills of Alan Wolfson, a New York based artist. It is difficult to tell from the first photo that you are even looking at a model. So this next photo…
Yannick Hennebo has just recently put these photos of his new sculpt for Privateer Press up on his blog. Personally, the figure is not to my taste, far to anime inspired, and I think anyone would agree that the armour and sword are verging on the r…