GD Valhallan diorama

[Mega Nutz]

Great posing, I can imagine him with Michaels Caines voice saying 'See, e was only sposed to blow the bloody doors orf'

Simply superb work!

[Tinners]

If you cast him pm me :P

[Guilliman]

I'd like to sell them cheap to anyone interested, but I'm not sure how legal it is when I've used GW's head. But perhaps it's legal if I give them away for free? Simply send me an envelope containing another stamped envelope?

[MaxSigmund]

Well, I hope you don't feel the might of GW's legal arm on your bonce, because your sculpting is absolutely great! Cracking work.

[icecream boy]

AFAIK, giving them away would be totally fine, though given how nice the sculpt is, it would be a waste. I would totally be interested in getting one if you do decide to cast some, as would many others I imagine.

[SSG Snuffy]

That's a really impressive sculpt. What do you have planned for the other figure?

If I may be so bold as to offer a little inspiration... take a look at Youtube at a video titled "Tyomnaja Notch." Plenty of iconic poses and expressions in there that would be great material for your diorama.

[Sicarius the 2nd]

This looks amazing so far, looking forward to the end products and to see some paint, reminds me of a scene from band of brothers when they are in Bastogne!
Andy

[Jo-Jo]

Must have one :P
Good luck on the rest of them. Hope they turn out even better. If thats possible.

[Hadriel Caine]

Awesome stuff! Can't wait to see him finished. The pose is very natural.

[Guilliman]

Thanks for all the comments. I can really see how the interest for this thread has increased as the sculpt has gotten closer to completion (I wouldn't be interested after seeing only the first post either). Also how everyone get their own associations. Some people like to name their dioramas with a quote of some sort but I won't do anything like that. I like how people can have their own interpretation of what the topic of conversation is.

Anyway, he's 99% complete. I only have to file the lower bit of the strap down once the GS has set completely and I have rolled a very thin strip of GS that I will cut down to get his cigarette. I'll just wait until I've made the mould before I attach it. It's way to thin to cast successfully anyway.













For all interested: I will make the rubber mould, but I'll cast copies only after Games Day when I feel I have the time to do so. It's tempting to do a profit of it, but as I've said, the bigger the profit the more nervous I'll get about the legal stuff. Simply send me a PM and I'll see how many interested there are and then wait til after GD.

Tomorrow I'll ask my brother to pose for the second sculpt so I can begin the work on it right away.

[Melchor]

Looking ace Guilliman! It looks like when it's painted it will be undistinguishable from an actual GW Valhallan.
One suggestion though, the right hand looks like it needs cigarette. Not sure how that will affect your chances at winning a Golden Demon though...

[Guilliman]

Looking ace Guilliman! It looks like when it's painted it will be undistinguishable from an actual GW Valhallan.
One suggestion though, the right hand looks like it needs cigarette. Not sure how that will affect your chances at winning a Golden Demon though...

Read the entry more careful and you'll see he's meant to have a cigarette. And OF COURSE it will increase my chances of winning a statuette!

[SharpSilver]

Some excellent sculpting there. Look fab.

[Melchor]

Oops sorry. My bad.
And I'm sure a smoke will make him look a lot cooler. I'm unsure as to wether GW has problem with the GD entries smoking. I'm guessing with all the war and violence that's depicted in their games and imagery they'd be ok with it but you never know.

[Guilliman]

Oops sorry. My bad.
And I'm sure a smoke will make him look a lot cooler. I'm unsure as to wether GW has problem with the GD entries smoking. I'm guessing with all the war and violence that's depicted in their games and imagery they'd be ok with it but you never know.

I thought about that earlier today as well but then I realized you get a smoking head in the cadian command squad. Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed's got one big cigarr between his fingers as well, so I guess it won't be a problem.

[Hadriel Caine]

I'm blown away with the quality of sculpting here. I thought you were going to put a skull on the hat. I think it looks good without it tbh but thought I'd mention it incase you had forgotten!

[Guilliman]

I'm blown away with the quality of sculpting here. I thought you were going to put a skull on the hat. I think it looks good without it tbh but thought I'd mention it incase you had forgotten!

Thanks. I left it off, only forgott to mention it. I'm not really a fan of those skulls, and as Deamon-forge poited out, it probably looks bertter without it.

[Mega Nutz]

I've really enjoyed seeing this figure develop and the completed model is simply superb. As for the comment about the cigarette, I'll add my two peneth worth...smoking has featured both in GW's models and in the Imperial guard codex (previous one to the current) so it'd be rather contradictory to mark someone's work down due to that!

[Brother Alexos]

That Lasgun is huge...

[Guilliman]

I know Alexos.. We can thank GW's hero scale weapons for that. At least I got rid of the worst of it on the rest of the model. To show you guys how he scales to another warhammer model I took this pic for you:



Been rather busy today doing something else than sculpting. The next valhallan will be sitting on a box of ammo, so I had to build the box first. As a side effect of me being a perfectionist: they open.





I also took a shot for you to see the basic layout of the scene. Next guy will be sitting on the box to the right warming his hand over the fire. My plan's been to have a third soldier trying to get some sleep lying down with his back against the same box. The original plan of the composition was to have him on the right side with his feet pointing away from the rest of the scene. But having taken this picture now, I'm unsure on where to place him. Perhaps placing him on the other side between the two awake in front of the other boxes won't have him sticking out of the scene as much. Suggestions?