Thief

I have started on two new sculpts. One a thief and the other I don´t know yet. The thief is gone wear a hood and have is hand stretched out like he is about to grab something. Otherwise I´ve been thinking about building a spin caster and yesterday I  made some sketches. Kind of rough yet but I think it would work. The goal is to build something that is cheap but works:). I´ve seen some tutorials online how to make a potters wheel and I think that´s a good start. I will be using silicone molds so no worries about vulcanizing rubber and such.

Head

I have been struggling with the warrior. My main problem has been getting the face right. The first one  was to big and looked like a old king from the 17th century and that was not what I was after. The second one was also to big and the helmet did not turn out like I wanted. I think the third one turned out to be more what I had in mind. I still have some work to do but it´s a good start. I´m looking forward to cook some wax. I like the Castilene but I´d like it to be harder, right now it´s to easy to mess up when I´m working around the model.

Wolcott: And do you think this hat makes my head look big?
Eb farnum: No sir. It makes your head look the perfect size.

End game

I´m about to finish the goblin and the princess. I´m just gone polish them some to get rid of the grittiness. I think I´m gone make a test mold of the goblin. I have some ideas how to make things better then previous ones that I´d like to test out. I will document it so that I can share the process here later on. But before that I think I´m gone work some more with the fighter.

Wax

I have started a new sculpt. I´m not done with the last one yet but I have a habit to always try to have something more in the pipeline. I think this one will be more of a fighter/rogue kind of guy but it´s still to be seen. I have read a lot of good stuff about sculpting waxes from Willow products so before Christmas I acquired some wax recipes from them. Yesterday I ordered the ingredients for one of there waxes which I think will work great with miniature sculpting. It took a lot of ebaying to get it all but I think I got it all now. I will do a followup later on.

Sword

I´ve started working on a sword. I used a piano wire that I got over from making my loop tools as a base. You can check out how to make your own here. I use mine all the time and it´s cheap :) ! I made a shield as well just to se if it would fit the model.

Crown

I took some time yesterday to add the second shoulder and the crown. It was more challenging then I thought. I had to work hard on making the castilene stick properly and when I finally did I had messed up the model so I had to do a clean up. I think I have to learn how to weld wax:) I added some hair but I think I will make some more changes to it cause I liked it better before. I will sleep on it.

Progress

I´m continuing my work on the "female knight". I was watching snow white and the huntsman while sculpting yesterday and I really like the crown the queen has so I´m considering adding one later on. I´m adding features to the sculpt like armor parts and clothes. I try to be methodical and dress the sculpt layer upon layer. It makes things easier in the long run. 

Sometimes I get carried away though:). Like now when I started out with the face. I start out with marking out the eyes,nose and mouth so I got some reference. I use a string of clay to add a nose and add some volume to get something to work with when sculpting the lips and chin. 

I cut out the lips with a knife and gently sculpt the face. It´s good to be methodical and try to get the overall shape before going to much into detail. I think it´s It´s very easy to make mistakes while sculpting faces in this size but I try to see them as part of the process and just carry on till I get something I like. At one part of the sculpt the face looked to big for the head but when I added some hair I think it worked out. I´ll leave the face for now and get the other parts in place.