So there you go, a small selection of what I did in the past. Next time I write will be something up to date.
Cheers,
Gregor
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
More old stuff...
Been busy the last week helping a friend out, but now, as promised, a selection of more stuff of old:
This is the dwarf mentioned in the last post. My second sculpt and the first sculpt ever to be eternalised in tin... Oh, and my paint job as well... :-D
My third sculpt and my first shot at human anatomy. A bit stocky, that fellow...^^
A fun project. Santa rising from the grave to attend to his duties...
Oh yes, this one was special. Started for fun in 2004 when a friend visited me for a sculpting session I soon got carried away going way too far into detail and finding myself unable to stop. A full dragon was intended, but the beast would have been enormous, so it ended up as a bust. After 4 years of working on it whenever I felt like doing so, hrhr... Obtainable at Masquerade Miniatures.
One of the more recent projects this started out in summer 2010. It was so hot back then that I nearly melted sculpting this while sitting in my working office located under the roof. Finishing this one I did two conversions, while Stefan, the master mind of Masquerade Miniatures, did two more, so in the end there was a whooping 5 different wolves to be had. Here are mine:
These are obtainable from Masquerade Miniatures, cast in tin. I just say: Heavy Metal!
The last pics for today show two of the three Giant Bats I did while working for Masquerade Miniatures. The need for those arose because the alternatives out there where not to our liking, so there. D.I.Y.-style. Interesting for all those Vampire Counts out there... ^^.
So there you go, a small selection of what I did in the past. Next time I write will be something up to date.
Cheers,
Gregor
So there you go, a small selection of what I did in the past. Next time I write will be something up to date.
Cheers,
Gregor
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Now it is official!
Hiho everybody
From this very day on I am now a freelance sculptor.
Hooray!
If someone would have predicted that two years ago I would have had a good laugh and surely not believed it.
But that is life: It always holds many surprises and now I am really looking forward to this endeavour and chapter in my life.
I would be happy to let those who are interested partake in this enterprise and so I will show in this blog what is happening on my workbench whenever I find the time to do so.
At the moment I am working on a commission for a polish company, of course I can not show any pictures of that.
Nevertheless I would like to share some impressiones of my collected works I have done so far beginning with my very first scratch build miniature.
Of course it could not be anything other than a dwarf:
As a matter of course there is also a story behind this miniature.
Being introduced to the tabletop hobby by a friend way back in 1992 I soon started to be an ardent collector of everything dwarven. Painting my miniatures came to me naturally as I did historical modelling before I got into tabletop, so painting was not new to me.
Eventually I learned that with painting miniatures on a semi proffesional level I could combine hobby with making money. Must have been in 1999 when I answered a job offer from Hobby Products for painting their miniatures as a freelance painter.
Hobby Products had an own game in 15mm scale called Demonworld and as far as I know they also produced the miniatures for Armallion, the DSA tabletop game.
Necessary painting skills back then were not the same as today (and payment wasn't either) but it was still great fun. So I went to introduce myself to said company to show them my painted minis and thus became acquainted with none other than Werner Klocke. In that time Klocke was employed by Hobby Products as sculptor and had to judge my painting skills.
I got the job and did a bunch of painting jobs for the Demonworld line.
That is how I got introduced into the tabletop scene where I also got to know Stefan Niehues, back then the other Hobby Products sculptor and in later times my "sculpting mentor", so to say.
To cut a long story short, Werner Klocke sold me a roll of Greenstuff for 30 Deutsche Mark (the miser...) and that was the very beginning of my sculpting career.
At first I did just minor conversions but in the end I did my first miniature from scratch, the dwarf you can see above. That must have been in 2001. The dwarf was meant to bolster a regiment of spear-carrying clandwarves (dwarves were allowed to take spears back then, 4th Warhammer edition, I think...) so of course I also painted it. Yep, that means the original green...
I soon did a second dwarf and before I painted that one too, Stefan Niehues introduced me to Thomas Palm, head and owner of Assassin Miniatures. He was very interested in my second dwarf so in the end I sold him the sculpt and got my second sculpt released - what a career... :-)
When I told him that I had done another dwarf but had it painted he really wanted to tweak my ears and assigned me to get rid of the paint so we could release that dwarf too.
No sooner said than done, in the end even my first sculpt got released by Assassin Miniatures, which for me then was very exhilarating.
Hah, now I got carried away spilling the beans about some very old inside story. Hope it wasn't too boring. :-) Anyway, that is how I came to do my first sculpt and even got it released.
More rantings of times bygone soon to come...^^
Cheers,
Gregor
From this very day on I am now a freelance sculptor.
Hooray!
If someone would have predicted that two years ago I would have had a good laugh and surely not believed it.
But that is life: It always holds many surprises and now I am really looking forward to this endeavour and chapter in my life.
I would be happy to let those who are interested partake in this enterprise and so I will show in this blog what is happening on my workbench whenever I find the time to do so.
At the moment I am working on a commission for a polish company, of course I can not show any pictures of that.
Nevertheless I would like to share some impressiones of my collected works I have done so far beginning with my very first scratch build miniature.
Of course it could not be anything other than a dwarf:
As a matter of course there is also a story behind this miniature.
Being introduced to the tabletop hobby by a friend way back in 1992 I soon started to be an ardent collector of everything dwarven. Painting my miniatures came to me naturally as I did historical modelling before I got into tabletop, so painting was not new to me.
Eventually I learned that with painting miniatures on a semi proffesional level I could combine hobby with making money. Must have been in 1999 when I answered a job offer from Hobby Products for painting their miniatures as a freelance painter.
Hobby Products had an own game in 15mm scale called Demonworld and as far as I know they also produced the miniatures for Armallion, the DSA tabletop game.
Necessary painting skills back then were not the same as today (and payment wasn't either) but it was still great fun. So I went to introduce myself to said company to show them my painted minis and thus became acquainted with none other than Werner Klocke. In that time Klocke was employed by Hobby Products as sculptor and had to judge my painting skills.
I got the job and did a bunch of painting jobs for the Demonworld line.
That is how I got introduced into the tabletop scene where I also got to know Stefan Niehues, back then the other Hobby Products sculptor and in later times my "sculpting mentor", so to say.
To cut a long story short, Werner Klocke sold me a roll of Greenstuff for 30 Deutsche Mark (the miser...) and that was the very beginning of my sculpting career.
At first I did just minor conversions but in the end I did my first miniature from scratch, the dwarf you can see above. That must have been in 2001. The dwarf was meant to bolster a regiment of spear-carrying clandwarves (dwarves were allowed to take spears back then, 4th Warhammer edition, I think...) so of course I also painted it. Yep, that means the original green...
I soon did a second dwarf and before I painted that one too, Stefan Niehues introduced me to Thomas Palm, head and owner of Assassin Miniatures. He was very interested in my second dwarf so in the end I sold him the sculpt and got my second sculpt released - what a career... :-)
When I told him that I had done another dwarf but had it painted he really wanted to tweak my ears and assigned me to get rid of the paint so we could release that dwarf too.
No sooner said than done, in the end even my first sculpt got released by Assassin Miniatures, which for me then was very exhilarating.
Hah, now I got carried away spilling the beans about some very old inside story. Hope it wasn't too boring. :-) Anyway, that is how I came to do my first sculpt and even got it released.
More rantings of times bygone soon to come...^^
Cheers,
Gregor
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Further options...
... for the Technoservant.
I finished sculpting the alternative arm and hand options: The new right servo arm and a new left hand consisting of tubes and cables.
I also was made aware of the fact that the blue spacer between body and gun was a bit to long, so the gun looked a bit unbalanced.
I gave that part a bit of rework, now it is more pleasing to my eyes.
Thanks for the advice!
Best regards,
Gregor
I finished sculpting the alternative arm and hand options: The new right servo arm and a new left hand consisting of tubes and cables.
I also was made aware of the fact that the blue spacer between body and gun was a bit to long, so the gun looked a bit unbalanced.
I gave that part a bit of rework, now it is more pleasing to my eyes.
Thanks for the advice!
Best regards,
Gregor
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
News to be told
Hiho again to all of you out there!
"What has he been doing all the time?" you might ask...
Well, being busy, that is!
Apart from finishing the last paper work for the public authorities (how I love that...) I have (nearly) completed work on the momentary project populating my work bench.
I give you the Technoservant I.
I., because there will be at least one more of those fellows:
This one comes with a weapon and human left hand, but will have another left hand option (which I still have to do) and also another right arm option, which will be a servo arm (that I am currently working on). On the last pic you can see the miniature without arm/hand options.
Inspiration for the general idea for this came from the "Terminator guy", who I did all those Terminator conversions for, so all laurels/blame to him. :-)
I plan to cast this one in white metal and sell it along with my "Landsknecht" style dwarves (viewable in older posts) around the middle of the next year.
As always comments welcome.
Best wishes,
Gregor
"What has he been doing all the time?" you might ask...
Well, being busy, that is!
Apart from finishing the last paper work for the public authorities (how I love that...) I have (nearly) completed work on the momentary project populating my work bench.
I give you the Technoservant I.
I., because there will be at least one more of those fellows:
This one comes with a weapon and human left hand, but will have another left hand option (which I still have to do) and also another right arm option, which will be a servo arm (that I am currently working on). On the last pic you can see the miniature without arm/hand options.
Inspiration for the general idea for this came from the "Terminator guy", who I did all those Terminator conversions for, so all laurels/blame to him. :-)
I plan to cast this one in white metal and sell it along with my "Landsknecht" style dwarves (viewable in older posts) around the middle of the next year.
As always comments welcome.
Best wishes,
Gregor
Monday, 5 September 2011
Terminator Chaplain
The last achievement ready to rumble from my workbench: A Black Templar Terminator Chaplain!
One of the more extensive conversions I have done for the "Terminator-guy", it was fun to do.
The wishes and requirements given by the customer were again very specific.
The next project I will be getting my spindly fingers on will be something of a secret.
Inspiration came from the afore-mentioned "Terminator-guy", so all laurels to him.
I can tell that much: We will stay in the Sci-Fi theme...
One of the more extensive conversions I have done for the "Terminator-guy", it was fun to do.
The wishes and requirements given by the customer were again very specific.
The next project I will be getting my spindly fingers on will be something of a secret.
Inspiration came from the afore-mentioned "Terminator-guy", so all laurels to him.
I can tell that much: We will stay in the Sci-Fi theme...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Yeehaaa !
Finally!
Yes, it took me a while to find the time to do some sculpting, but now that I found it I can proudly present pictures of my last endeavour.
The champion for my "Armoured Imperial Elite Dwarves".
Resplendent in his masterwork heavy armour, with well groomed beard and eye-patch, a veteran of many a battle, he stoically holds his mighty "Zweihänder" in his calloused hand.
Nothing the enemies could throw at him will break his ease.
Or something like that... ;-)
Well, what more can I say?
Sculpted in Bees Putty again, this gnarled old grumbler completes the commando group for the elite regiment of the imperial dwarves I plan to release in the middle of the next year.
I intend to do about 6 more rank and file troopers for this unit, all armed with two-handed swords. The first 3 for the time of web shop launch around May/June 2012, so there would be availlable the commando group plus 3 troopers. The other 3 as soon as I can do them after that, if sales volume justifies it.
But that is just a rough estimate of what I plan to do.
Anyway, next on my workbench will be another conversion for the Terminator guy.
This time it is a Black Templar Chaplain with skull helmet in Terminator armour he wants me to do - surely looking forward to that one!
Untill then "Saludos a todos!"
Cheers
Yes, it took me a while to find the time to do some sculpting, but now that I found it I can proudly present pictures of my last endeavour.
The champion for my "Armoured Imperial Elite Dwarves".
Resplendent in his masterwork heavy armour, with well groomed beard and eye-patch, a veteran of many a battle, he stoically holds his mighty "Zweihänder" in his calloused hand.
Nothing the enemies could throw at him will break his ease.
Or something like that... ;-)
Well, what more can I say?
Sculpted in Bees Putty again, this gnarled old grumbler completes the commando group for the elite regiment of the imperial dwarves I plan to release in the middle of the next year.
I intend to do about 6 more rank and file troopers for this unit, all armed with two-handed swords. The first 3 for the time of web shop launch around May/June 2012, so there would be availlable the commando group plus 3 troopers. The other 3 as soon as I can do them after that, if sales volume justifies it.
But that is just a rough estimate of what I plan to do.
Anyway, next on my workbench will be another conversion for the Terminator guy.
This time it is a Black Templar Chaplain with skull helmet in Terminator armour he wants me to do - surely looking forward to that one!
Untill then "Saludos a todos!"
Cheers
Saturday, 13 August 2011
New project finished
The Terminator guy surely keeps me busy!
Those Black Templars are truly his soft spot, so he could not refrain from having more conversions done - well, keep them rolling in, mate... ;-)
Ok, let us be a bit more specific:
The task was to convert a standard Forge World "Contemptor Pattern" Dreadnought into a "Black Templar" version.
I was provided with a briefing in written form, with very clear and detailed instructions, even including some photos and sketches. If all customers would go to such lengths to make clear their wishes life would be so much easier for sculptors - great job!
The actual conversion work was again done with "Bees Putty", some metal chains and a bit of "Green Stuff", where the more "sticky properties" of it were useful. The plastic parts are GW and were also provided along with the briefing papers.
Pictures:
Next in line will be finishing my third dwarf - the champion - and another Terminator to be converted, so stay tuned. :-)
Regards,
Gregor
Those Black Templars are truly his soft spot, so he could not refrain from having more conversions done - well, keep them rolling in, mate... ;-)
Ok, let us be a bit more specific:
The task was to convert a standard Forge World "Contemptor Pattern" Dreadnought into a "Black Templar" version.
I was provided with a briefing in written form, with very clear and detailed instructions, even including some photos and sketches. If all customers would go to such lengths to make clear their wishes life would be so much easier for sculptors - great job!
The actual conversion work was again done with "Bees Putty", some metal chains and a bit of "Green Stuff", where the more "sticky properties" of it were useful. The plastic parts are GW and were also provided along with the briefing papers.
Pictures:
Next in line will be finishing my third dwarf - the champion - and another Terminator to be converted, so stay tuned. :-)
Regards,
Gregor
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