Trollbite Miniatures

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Friends know me as xbogx. I play guitar in I Stared Into the Forest and Coins as Portraits. This is my painting journey. https://linktr.ee/trollbite

Here is no. 2! He's using a looted ogre gut plate as a shield. I sculpted a wider rim on it because it was pretty small.

I sculpted the sword out of plasticard, which was my first time doing it. I loved how quickly I could get to the rough shape I wanted, but it's pretty hard to see details on white so I hope I can find colored ones.

I left the straps in place, but I sculpted a continuation of the shirt underneath them.

As I am sure to get questions again, none of what I'm doing is meant to be time efficient. I am practicing sculpting and making a few orcs as I would like to paint them. Like the previous one, I also removed stuff that wasn't necessarily sci-fi: the plates on the strap, the spikes on the shoes, the gloves, even the ammo pouch could have stayed.

I think the gun made the composition more interesting, creating a nice triangle between the gun tip, the grenade head and the strap on the shoulder. Maybe I can improve mine with painting.

I would especially like to improve the halberd head, I think the flat side is the worst part. The feather needs some work too. I think the armor is pretty good though I might need to lighten up the green reflections on it quite a bit as they are too subtle.

I am very happy with what I was able to do with the face. I don't usually paint humans and this sculpt is quite soft. I was going to add the red stripes on back of the pant leg, but ran out of time. The light side of the stones should be much higher in value, but I painted the base in about 5 minutes.

A big surprise to me is that I don't hate the green base rim. I still might paint it black eventually as I will want this guy to fit my old world collection.

Here's some more sculpting practice on zombies. The head actually comes from the same 1999 (?) multi-part zombie kit as the rest of the parts, but it's very different in scale and more in line with other kits at the time (empire troops) or even modern Warhammer. I'm wondering why they included it, maybe it was sculpted by someone else, or possibly even part of a different kit originally.

I sculpted an iron hat as one of the Gary Morley zombies had one. I was inspired by those models to make mine more equipped for combat, but the spearhead and the hat took me a long while to sand and get right.

Sculpting practice! I have mixed feelings about the old multi-part zombie kit. On the one hand, it has a lot of charm, and many of the faces are great. On the other, the heads and hands are huge and the shoulder joins are pretty rough.
My main reason for doing this is to practice sculpting without having to create a whole figure from scratch, which is always intimidating.
I got to try things I've never done before, like the hair and the blade, as well as some anatomy and cloth, which is a struggle. I wanted to create a more martial zombie that holds a shield and appears more focused, inspired by the 90s ones sculpted by Gary Morley. The head is from the previous generation skaven stormvermin kit.

Here's me painting a night goblin! I had to edit this down from 4+ hours, so you can imagine how much I cut out. By the time the video starts, I had brush-primed it with colors somewhere between the shadow and the midtone and added some wash (agrax) in the darkest places (basically occlusion shadows).

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