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PROGRESS REPORT, DAY 3:
Well, As you see I took some pictures using the scanner (attachment at the bottom of the post). The quality is nothing spectacular, but not as bad as I feared.
(I apologize for the poor quality of the collage, I just cut and pasted the individual parts together with a view to saving space)
The image shows:
(-An Epic catachan, both for size comparison and to give you a means of judging the loss of quality in the image).
-The Head: It's effectively finished, unless I decide to change something about the hair. I don't want to mess with the face, since it would be a horror if I ruined it now.
-The bolter: 90% finished, what's left to do is just the touching up to make it look smoother and the edges crisper (which is always a problem for me in that scale, since I don't have access to brown stuff, which would probably be perfect for that kind of work).
By the way, IMO the other side of the weapon looks better ("cleaner" mostly) , but unfortunately it won't be visible on the finished miniature- d'oh !
-The main body (2 shots): First off, I haven't set to work on the arms yet, but they likely won't be too difficult, so I don't mind putting them off a little. Also they need to match the shape of the body.
Now for the body: As you can see it's still some way from completion but it ought to be recognizableas a Sister, which is a vast improvement from yesterday, when it was just the legs and some plastic slab where the torso should be.
The legs are mostly finished now, except for the fleur-de-lys on her left leg, which I might redo. By the way, that's why I included views from 2 sides, since I'm very satisfied with it from the front, but IMO it stands out way too much from the side, what do you think ?
The tabard, both front and back needs some more work, particularly the back part.
The torso still needs some work. The flanks look irregular (actually more so on the scan), but they will be covered by the arms. There are also two fleurs-de-lys missing (below each breast), but I'm not sure whether I'll do them, since they would be hidden by the weapon anyway (in the pose I'm basing this mini on) and are extremely fiddly.
I haven't yet started work on the shoulder pads, what you see in the picture is just a basic shape for stability.
She's also still missing the tubes coming from her backpack as well as the skull emblem that connects them.
What is not in the picture:
-The backpack and the crucifix: I didn't include these because of the way they are attached for handling, which would have made them tricky to get into the scanner without having to break the support off and reglue it later, which I didn't want to do.
The backpack is around 70% finished unless I decide the fleur-de-lys doesnt' look good enough ( I think it's a little too wide) , in which case it's closer to 50 or 60%. The most tricky thing missing are the small spiky bits on both ends of the "T-bar".
The crucifix is finished, it even has a small skull (really tiny, which probably wouldn't properly show up on the scan anyway
(hell, even with the eye you probably have to know what it is to recognize it, but I didn't want to leave it off, or replace it with a simple gem or something.)
So what's left to do? Besides all that's listed above and the obligatory touching up: Some grenades or somesuch to hang from her (yet to do) belt, and the arms. And fitting it all together, which is gonna be terrible, but then again great because I will effectively have crossed the finish line by then.
So much for today, see you tomorrow.
Cheers,
Drasannar
P.S. @Vanvlak: You seem to be talking from personal experience ?. Alas, I know what you mean. I *do* have a cat; his name is "Loki" and he behaves accordingly. So I generally keep him *far* away from my sculpting table
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Just fantastic, amazing stuff Drasannar....
