Real Life sculpts for miniature casting

I have enjoyed following @vermillionfox 's sculpture posts recently, and wanted to show you all , some of my real life sculpts. Before you read on , go and check her posts, you will find the latest one here . Maybe you will get as inspired by it as I was.

It has been quite a while since I have sculpted anything by hand. The fact that I am busy with my day job and my design company, as well as the knife and swordmaking, has meant that i do most of my sculpting digitally these days and print the results, using one of my 3d-printers.

Most of these are made around 15 years ago when I was still working as a goldsmith. I played a lot of Games workshop games back then and these miniatures are all made for GW games.
First up is a few heads from Inquisitor models. GW made a game called inquisitor that never really took of , but the miniatures where larger than their other , heroic scale , games, and so it was a nice opportunity to make something a little bigger (the miniatures was app. 7 cm high) from left to right they are - a guardsman with gas-mask, a space marine, a sister of battle (whose hair and lower lip has unfortunately fallen off during mold-making) and a daemon-host.

These next ones are spaceorks for Warhammer 40k again only the heads. they are sculpted in milliput, a really great self curing two-part epoxy clay. It is great for fine detail work and gets hard and durable enough that you can make silicone molds for pewter casting directly from them. it is supposedly nontoxic but i always wear rubber gloves - it is an epoxy and epoxies are notorious for being allergenic.

the last one is made in greenstuff which is also a self curing 2 part epoxy. it doesn't get as hard as milliput and retains a little bit of flexibility which is nice for durability when used as a means to modify existing miniatures , but also means that it doesn't take sanding as well and sharp edges are harder to get,it is a living ancestor for what was then called Squats. GW decided to discontinue their version of the dwarf archetype in 40K , but for many years there was frequent rumors that they would return. They never did, to my great frustration, but I still have quite a collection of these little fellas. By the way this guy is app. 1.5 cm high, to fit the scale of a seated dwarf in Warhammer 40k

I will make more posts about some of my sculpts. as you can see here there are more than enough material to choose from. I just need to find the time to get it photographed, and hopefully also show you some of my finished cast and painted models.

Im EvilHippie, a compulsive creative and jack o' trades. If you want to know more about me, check out my introduction post here

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