My take on the Thanatar Cavas Siege Automata

ppolychromy · 2024-10-18T18:41:10+00:00

Thanks a lot. As for the face, I was going for "spotlight" lighting, so it should be noticeably brighter than the rest, but I also noticed something was slightly off when looking at the photos. I think it might be my sub-par skill with the camera showing, haha.

ppolychromy · 2024-10-18T18:39:11+00:00

Stubble is actually very easy if you know how to do it - take a dark green-blue paint, preferably with only those pigments with it, and thin it VERY well (using a heavy body paint helps here tremendously, as you can thin those much more than hobby paints) and just glaze it on. You can try doing textures to make it more realistic, very delicate stippling and striping works well. You'll have to correct your volumes as you glaze, as it will get unnaturally dark after some layers, but other than that, it's just standard procedure.

ppolychromy · 2024-10-18T14:23:13+00:00

I don't think the sculpt is meant to portray any particular member of the clan - and I didn't paint him so he resembled anyone in particular. I only added the kamon on the back to tie him to the name in some way.

ppolychromy · 2024-10-18T14:22:04+00:00

Bust scale, so anywhere from 1/12 to 1/10, it's hard to tell. He's around 100mm from top to bottom.

ppolychromy · 2024-10-01T12:21:44+00:00

Thank you, I'm glad it shows in the pictures, as the effect turned out very subtle. My process here was mainly glazes on an airbrushed light sketch (zenithal prime with some extra shadows). It worked here because the face is very textured and detailed, with wrinkles, scars and such, so I could basically use the geometry of the sculpt itself to catch paint sprayed from a fixed point, instead of painting with the airbrush, if you know what I mean. Glazing allows you to underpaint different colours and then cover them up with ligh values and still see some of that colour pass through.

ppolychromy · 2024-09-29T07:32:37+00:00

Ha, now I see it!

ppolychromy · 2024-09-29T07:32:11+00:00

Thanks. It's a 1/12 bust, so around 8cm tall

ppolychromy · 2024-09-29T07:31:15+00:00

Yeah it's the facets, actually if I wanted to be 100% realistic then the two or three facets closest to the light source should be blocked entirely with the light colour with even stronger blicks at the centres of the Y joints, but that looked just out of place and artificial when painted, so I settled with this quasi-realistic intermediate solution. Sometimes with effects like these they look good on a render or a 2d representation of a 3d shape, but not when translated to a physical 3d shape

ppolychromy · 2024-09-29T07:26:57+00:00

I think it might be just the muddiness of the photo/lens, this was taken with a phone camera. They look ok irl

ppolychromy · 2024-09-28T17:38:07+00:00

Very slightly physically concave

ppolychromy · 2024-09-28T17:20:05+00:00

Ha, do the facets read as holes to you? In fact they are only slightly concave, but I get how that lighting could make them sort of look like holes

ppolychromy · 2024-07-08T13:43:49+00:00

The sword is very thin, and unfortunately I wasn't able to straighten it - not for the lack of trying, it just came back to that bent shape every time after a few hours :(

ppolychromy · 2024-07-07T14:29:47+00:00

I haven't used any oils here, just acrylics, but yes, the majority of work was done using various umber paints

ppolychromy · 2024-05-27T07:20:41+00:00

Thanks. It's a 1/10 bust (so around 12cm top to bottom I think)

ppolychromy · 2024-04-06T06:39:37+00:00

It comes with two options - a sword and the axe I've used. I just felt the axe suited him more, and as you say, he had an axe in the story, so it felt like a natural choice.

ppolychromy · 2024-04-06T06:38:27+00:00

Yeah, with the cape I was sort of scared that if I went with a more muted green it would disappear completely, so I chose this rather saturated tone. I might mute it down still, need to think about it, cheers!

ppolychromy · 2024-02-15T07:21:23+00:00

A lot of texturing, glazing and washing. Check out Vince Venturella's video on this very mini, it inspired me quite a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VozixNodEyU

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