GD Valhallan diorama

[Serpent]

Put him with his back to the three boxes, so that his feet are close to the fire. Perhpas he's been out on patrol, and his feet are cold. That would explain the fatigue as well.

This is a great project. Keep it up!

[SSG Snuffy]

Hmm... I like the semi-circular arrangement better than the more linear original composition. If you change his orientation, what will the third soldier be doing? How about writing a letter? Strumming a stringed instrument? Shaving with a straight razor? Field-stripping his weapon?

Sleeping would be fine, too, though if you do that I'd put him on his side and allow his curled position to mimic and reinforce the semi-circular arrangement of his two buddies.

Just my opinion!

[baphomael]

your valhallen is fantastic, its wonderfully characterful, and I can imagine him complaining with a comrade in that fatalistic slavic black humour.

"Comrade, you think it bad here? On St. Josiah's Landing we had bug bigger than bear!"

"Oh yea, well on Alpha-Two-Six we had bug bigger than car! And it lay egg in your brain!"

"Bah, our bug would eat your bug for breakfast!"

"Yea? Well our bug would eat your bug, puke back up and eat again!"

[Guilliman]

Hmm... I like the semi-circular arrangement better than the more linear original composition. If you change his orientation, what will the third soldier be doing? How about writing a letter? Strumming a stringed instrument? Shaving with a straight razor? Field-stripping his weapon?

Sleeping would be fine, too, though if you do that I'd put him on his side and allow his curled position to mimic and reinforce the semi-circular arrangement of his two buddies.

Just my opinion!

Thanks Snuffy for some good points. I'll have him sleeping and snuggling beneath a blanket. The plan is to make it look really cold. Plus it will save me so much time sculpting if I only need to sculpt one blanket with a head.

[Munchy]

Hi Guilliman,

I've been keeping an eye on this as I usually enter the Diorama category as well. This is progressing very nicely! Your sculpting skills are excellent and I look forward to seeing what the next figures look like.

Here's to hoping we both come away with a demon!

[Guilliman]

Thanks Munchy! I remember seeing your Photo Diorama thread a while ago. I love dioramas like yours that shows something besides the fighting. Any chance of seeing what you're entering this year?

[Munchy]

This year's entry is somwhat more complicated, I will be making a thread soon for it

It's tricky as at the moment, I am in the middle of moving house, amongst other things. So I am not getting anywhere near as much time as I hpe to to work on it. It will be featuring Death Korps and Catachans though, and the base is built and the plan is made, and most of the models have been purchased.

[Gonfrask]

Nice sculpt!

[Guilliman]

I hope you'll make it in time Munchy. It'd be great to see something like your last diorama live at GD.

Well I'm back with some updates. It took me more time to have my brother pose for reference photos and building the skeleton than I thought it would.
But I really hope to have the legs and lower part of the coat finished by tomorrow.



But some time of today has been spent building the fire as well. I'm not satisfied yet. The fire needs more flames as it looks to pointy at the moment, but you get the general idea. Sculpting flames turned out to be easier than I thought so I should be finished by tomorrow.



Then fire goes into barrel.

[Tinners]

Looking forward to seeing more. Not enough valhallans around, and defo not enough lovely scratchbuilt ones. I envy your skills I really do.

[icecream boy]

Fire is a difficult thing to sculpt really, though I'm confident in your abilities. Have you though of putting a LED light into it?

[Caiphas Cain]

If you paint this well, you'd better win.

If you don't, yell racist at the top of your lungs or something dignified like that.

[Guilliman]

Fire is a difficult thing to sculpt really, though I'm confident in your abilities. Have you though of putting a LED light into it?

I've had trouble sculpting fire once before and it ended up with me making a GS mould out of a horror arm. Turns out it's much easier when you've got the right tools for it.

Some of my friends have already suggested a LED light. That wouldn't however be the same thing as painting the OSL myself. Only thing that's tempting though is casting it in clear plastic. But then again, painting it is the only real challenge. I think painting the rest of the scene as dark as I'm planning will make a really bright fire stand out really well.

[Munchy]

Guilliman, I just found this photo of one of my first GD diorama entries, with a similar theme!



Yours is looking far superior already

[Guilliman]

Guilliman, I just found this photo of one of my first GD diorama entries, with a similar theme!



Yours is looking far superior already

That's awesome Munchy! I used to follow that thread, it inspired me a lot.

[Guilliman]

Got a lot done today. First I finished the fire. Not much to show though, it's basicly the same thing you saw in my last update with some more flames on it. I almost finished the legs and lower part of the robe. What's left is the back of the robe that should be visible between his legs. Also the top of the left leg will be fixed tomorrow. The problem with sculpting the robe hanging free in the air is that I have nothing supporting it, so smoothing it out is sometimes impossible. But tomorrow I'll have what I've done today to press some new GS onto.







Right after these photos were taken I realized I'd built to much flesh onto the skeleton and my guy was huge. However I managed to cut enough of the GS away and sculpt new creases and it now looks a lot better next to my first sculpt.

[SSG Snuffy]

Right after these photos were taken I realized I'd built to much flesh onto the skeleton and my guy was huge.

No plus-sized Valhallans?

[Fox Of 9]

An overfed adviser?

[Guilliman]

Been really busy today as usual. I was hoping to finish the collar before I went to sleep, but I had to attach the head with GS that now has got to cure before I can do anything else. Getting the head right was relly difficult and like yesterday I've made some alterations after taking the pics (pressed it down a bit). I also tried to get a picture of the two interacting, but it was really difficult doing it with one hand. The'll be standing closer and facing each other better than now but you get the general idea.

[G.Hawke]

i can imagine the discussion....

"And then it was like Caw Caw! Caw Caw!"

looks good, nice clean sculpting.

-hawke