New Vampire sculpt (Amelia)

[Josef]

looking very nice richie

 

[The Dark Sheep]

Looking very good. Maybe a little too big teeth for my taste, but that's probably just because they are pointed.

 

[N.I.B]

Your green stuff skills are awesome, but I'm not sold on the pose of the female vamp, she looks more shy than malevolent. Maybe it's different when she get some paint on.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Another superb sculpt Richie - but the same comment as always - I want to see them painted. I've seen quite a few of your great sculpts but no painted ones as of yet.

Very nice level of detail on her though, and whilst agree with NIB she does look quite innocent, and think with decent pale skin and slight trickle of blood from one side of her mouth, she would look the part.

 

[Wolf Fang]

Nice work as always Richie. I agree with N.I.B.'s comment about the pose, but aside from that it's awesome. I think it would fit right in with the Reaper line.

cheers, Wolfie

 

[Richie]

Apologies for my lateness, life has been hectic with the move back to the UK just tomorrow.

@Disciple of Nagash
I'm always scared by adding paint as there are no green stuff friendly paint strippers (even brake fluid ruins them). I also need to leave them unpainted for resume purposes.

@Wolf Fang and N.I.B
I'm hoping it's just the angle (not the best to be honest) so I have uploaded another image.

Aside from her being finished ages ago I have been working alot on the wight king, sadly he won't be finished before I return to the UK but thought I'd post photos of him as he is and get some feed back (hope you all like him) he's taller than the average wight, I wanted to combine some of my own ideas by making him look elongated in places and drew on ideas I have of a combination of a wight king, Krell and even Nagash.

Will still be availible from troll forged miniatures when complete.

 

[illusionarypresence]

hes very cool

am sad that none of them get painted...

 

[Richie]

hes very cool

am sad that none of them get painted...

Well I don't paint many of them for a variety of reasons.

With the wight king it's going to be cast by troll forged miniatures so there would be little point in me painting it as it would ruin any moulding and obscure detail.

Amelia will be painted, just not by me, I have a friend who is a golden demon winner (first time he entered he went for the hard catergory and scored bronze).

Many of my sculpts though have to be left unpainted for any potential work that I get offered as a sculptor.

 

[Master Vampire]

Nice. When will the wight king be on sale?

 

[The Dark Sheep]

I can see what you mean by elongated. Maybe it's a little exaggerated, though, as the neck is a tiny bit too long (even for a long person).

 

[Richie]

Nice. When will the wight king be on sale?

Unknown at the moment, it all depends what the production line list is like at trool forged (first come first cast basis).

@The Dark Sheep
Someone else made the same comment, I'm hoping it's just cuased by the look from the cloth covering the lower half of the face.

The two shoulder plates closest to his neck is actually where his shoulders are and the point of the armour where his neck and head come out of are just above that.

 

[Aegis]

Once the sword is finished i'm sure it will not be noticeable. I think the problem people are having is there isn't much to scale it with other than his head and the blade(shoulder guards are always over sized, because they are meant to protect more than just the shoulder, case in point.)

and the cloth is exaggerating the size of his head. Plus you also have to take into account that he wasn't always dead and the armor SHOULD look a little over sized, as its occupant has likely lost about a hundred and fifty pounds of flesh. IMHO hes amazing looking, and carries the weight of his years very well.






You are a very good sculptor Richie. You have not posted anything myself and my little coterie of friends have not liked. You won't fail in this endeavor either.



Now hurry up so i can remove my converted empire general wight king and replace him with this. (I know I know, art can't be rushed, doesn't make me want it now any less. lol)

 

[Richie]

Once the sword is finished i'm sure it will not be noticeable. I think the problem people are having is there isn't much to scale it with other than his head and the blade(shoulder guards are always over sized, because they are meant to protect more than just the shoulder, case in point.)

and the cloth is exaggerating the size of his head. Plus you also have to take into account that he wasn't always dead and the armor SHOULD look a little over sized, as its occupant has likely lost about a hundred and fifty pounds of flesh. IMHO hes amazing looking, and carries the weight of his years very well.

You are a very good sculptor Richie. You have not posted anything myself and my little coterie of friends have not liked. You won't fail in this endeavor either.



Now hurry up so i can remove my converted empire general wight king and replace him with this. (I know I know, art can't be rushed, doesn't make me want it now any less. lol)

Not a problem, I'll try and finish him this afternoon, I'm feeling tempted by the zombie pirate list for sculpts to be quite honest (especially the rotten leviathan).

I DO believe it or not appricate the suggestions and help from everyone, especially because you all back up your points very well.

If anyone would like me to reduce the length of the neck and bring the head down slightly please post so and I will make changes.

Thanks again people.

 

[Master Vampire]

Not sure about the neck really. You have to say it to notice. Can you get a picture of the back?

 

[SethDrallitoc]

I like what I see. Want to see more.

I thought that knight was holding an ipod for a moment there...

 

[Richie]

I like what I see. Want to see more.

I thought that knight was holding an ipod for a moment there...

Now that would be an awesome sculpt :mrgreen:

Some updates on the changes I made to the sculpts, please note if any of you have any recommendations then please go right ahead.

I tried using a skull pic as reference for the haft I hope it's ok but if you think I should have a few more attempts please let me know. I also reduced the length of his neck and brought the head down lower to the shoulders, I hope it looks more realistic.

Not finished the Vampire's haft yet, currently it's just a base stage, toned her hair down a lot but not sure if it still needs work.

 

[Josef]

i like the Wk a lot better now =), and still love the Vamp model, only thing i would change personaly is the spikey parts on the sholulder pads im not that fontd of them but over all very awsome work =)

 

[Richie]

i like the Wk a lot better now =), and still love the Vamp model, only thing i would change personaly is the spikey parts on the sholulder pads im not that fontd of them but over all very awsome work =)

Hmm, which would you prefer, complete removal or toned down?

 

[Master Vampire]

Yes I agree with Josef. In my opinion, complete removal of the shoulder pads. The helmet horns can stay. Maybe beef those up. Then it looks like he is the king, having got the greatest horns on his helmet.

 

[Josef]

yup remove them would be best IMHO just looks out of place to me but keep the helmet horns

 

[Richie]

Agreed, spikes seem a little uneven too.

What should go there in it's place because at the moment there's a dip between the front and back shoulder plates where the spikes are seated?

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

I agree about removing the spikes - if there is a dip that you can't smooth over how about just making a ridge? The lowering of the head looks much better btw - great work as always

 

[Arion]

Woderful, great work!

I actually like the spikes, but they are a bit uneven.

 

[Richie]

Thanks for the feedback guys,

I removed the two spikes closest to the head before I saw the last few replies in this thread.

I'll remove the shoulder spikes (I can see what you mean, they don't seem even and are a little out of place).

Anything other changes you would like?

 

[Spartan]

WOW you should find a way to cast her and sell her, I would buy one.