Lord Graviax of the World Eaters

[lerath666]

And one moooooore thing

What type of Milliput do you recomend using?

[Boltman]

I used a thing called Magic Sculp, you can find it from online stores. I love it, it doesn't stick badly like Millipuit and mixes much easier. Really like the stuff. For tools, the GW one takes care of a lot, I also use a very small tool I go from my dentist, ask yours for old/broken tools they are usually happy to help. Because Magic sculp (milliput too) can be water-smoothened and sanded, no smoothening tool like the silicon tips was really required. Jeweler's files to fix once putty is dry is all you need. You smoothened the surfaces by rubbing your finger on with a bit of water, and when cured, sand a bit.

 

Hope that helps,

[Dark Sensei]

Hey swordmaster, GRATZ GRATZ GRATZ !!!

Can't wait to see pictures from the rest of the competitors.

 

Dark Sensei

 

NB

 

"Well a Figostage I'm always up for. But I don't know where there are sufficient people to hold such a painting ''seminar''. Therefore, I rely on you guys to gather up interested people in your community, and invite me over. Some people have already started gathering, so I might have one such seminar booked next year. It is always a pleasure to meet people interested in pushing their painting further. "

Didn't know the thing was planned for next year, I'll discuss the matter here and help for the gathering. Will be a pleasure to see you around.

[Magnus the red]

Boltman do you only magic sculpt. I normally use magic sculpt but use GS for details

[Boltman]

Well I just started sculpting, so I would not be teh reference. But This terminator was done with Magic Sculp for everything except the face, which was GS with perhaps 33% Magic Sculp. Makes the piece sandable without loosing GS's flexible properties, perfect for distortionning facial traits for the right expression.

 

To answer the question int he next post, flesh was elf flesh mixed with bronzed flesh basecoat, shaded with snakebite and then bestial/blood red/black progressively. Elf flesh and white towards teh hilights.

[Marovingean]

It's a very nice model! and the fact that it's 96% GS/Milliput etc, amazes me.

How did you paint the flesh??

 

M

[Obliterator]

The sculpt is excellent, and the paintjob is technically about as flawless as it gets, but I must say I liked Magmatrax's more vibrant reds and warm golds better... Then again I'm not a huge fan of the muted palettes you so often see in French daemon entries... Very nice battle damage though :P

[Alpha PTP]

I think I just pissed myself.

 

You make me want to get back into 40k again. xD

 

 

Alpha

[GeneralStukov]

I am now wanting to start up a world eaters army... thanks.. thanks alot.. oh yea and I also wana have your chaos tainted babies.. XD that is one sexy model!

[Seif3r]

Master Boltman, amazing piece, truly amazing.

The axe? How did you do the axe? I do hope that an axe crafting tutorial will come from you, that would be neat.

[GeneralStukov]

Oh I ment to ask, that looks a hell of a lot like the Brother Artimis model from inquisitor in its pose, was that kinda the inspiration or what? Also, I'd love a tutorial on the model if you have one, same with the axe, I had an idea like that but as a 4 bladed axe in a + shape

[Ju'kosian]

whola this is a very very nice model.

I love the axe, well I love the whole mini, but the axe is :confused:

[Boltman]

Brother artimis was not a conscious inspiration for sure, I personally dislike that model. I wanted a brute rearing way back to swing a huge axe as he charges. I felt like a terminator as I like the challenge of posing such armor (harder than you may think... give it a try) and I love the terminator design. I sketched with stickfigures the posture of the body, legs, hips, torso, arms, elbows, weapon, and after a few dribbles I drew on the terminator armor restrictions and made sure the pose would still convey motion. When satisfied with teh pose, I sculpted blank legs, stuck copper wire pins between them and a plastic termi torso, made copper wire arms, and started fiddling with posture. when I was satisfied, I sketched many different features to pick what I prefered. Boot design, shoulderpad, torso decorations, powerfists, and the axe. Must have sketched about a hundred ideas. I selected and then started sculpting, doing trims, sanding after each step to insure perfect smoothness, this is crucial, else you'll pay during the painting stage. I'll see if I can find some odd pictures of this.

 

For the axe, I made one side of the pole and had a friend mold me a copy to act as second half. The axe was made with plasticard, 2 thin layers for the faces, then a thicker layer in the middle, but with a smaller surface to indented teeth. That way I could place in Dark eldar spikes to act as teeth. I glued one side to the middle part, making sure the thickness of the middle part was similar to the thickness of the teeth. Glued the teeth in, then glued on the other side of the axe head. Notice that each tooth has a slight edge angle that was staggered for uniform cutting :angry: I then used sandable putty, a thin layer on each face of half the axe head, and cut out my khorne symbol design. Hardest part was making sure that both faces of the axe half were identical so the copy placed on the other side, showing the underside of the original half, would match perfectly. Puttied up some studs, used plastic rod to make the two wheels where the chains is engaged from, and then glued to a plastic rod and metal pin for the shaft. Putty up some gimmicks such as the exhaust box on each side, then use two tiny plastic rods, drilled holes with super fine drill bit and cut at an angle to make the exhaust similar to a GW chainsword.

 

I rolled copper wire around a stiff metal pin to make the grip, puttied the ends and there you have it. Plastic spikes were placed at the head of the main shaft to make it look more rugged and dangerous, stolen from Ork boys choppas, a few of them have such a spike that only needs to be cut to length. The hardest part of all of this is coming up with your own original design. When you know precisely what to do, it’s a matter of time until you successfully build and adjust exactly what you want. Make sure you start by sketching exactly how you want your axe to look like before you start building.

[Psykochiken]

What colors/ techniques did you use to battle damadge this guy, I am having an awfull time battle damadging red armour

 

thank you!!

[VulkansFury]

Congratulations on another Golden Deamon Boltman....well deserved as always.

[Terminatorinhell]

i got two quick questions

1. what hands did you use?

2. how did you make the base

 

Thanks,

TerminatorinHell

[_jagr]

Congratulations!

 

Looking your old works, I have grown fond SE-NMM. Now I love metal paints :sweat:

 

Tell, please, as you painted the handle of an axe, a finger and other dark metal details.

 

PS. I really apologize for my English.

[Chaplain Chazzicus]

thats too awesome!!! *jaw drop*

[Colrouphobic]

Congratulations to your marriage.

 

It's a very impressive mini, not only the modeling, but the colouring comes together very well with the sculpt.

 

For a first sculpting atempt I'd say you are on a very good way to become a professional, should you like to.

Getting the speed up (as you said, this took time because you learnt during progress) is more or less all that is needed.

 

I'd take a look at some of the conceptuals out there for different figurines (Dark Angels, Black Templars, Orks, they can be found on various places with various qualities, though make sure they're made by GW) and then have a go at making one of them conceptuals into a mini. Take a photo of the mini unpainted and then paint it and take a photo. Ship the photos to GW and you will have a job there I'm quite sure.

 

If I got it correct, youi recieved a Golden Demon for this- well deserved.

If not, then you ought to have gotten one.

 

I personally have no issue with the cloak. Maybe it could have been made better, if you say so, but honestly, I fail to see the need for it, it comes together perfect as is. Maybe the photo doesn't show the "errors" as good as if you look at it whilst holding it in your hands.

 

The Axe is perfect. A bit on the large side, but the clean-cut design works extremely well.

 

My favourite parts of the model are:

3) The head. It's sculpted beautifully, and gives it a very savage feel. People who play White Scars should be wetting their pants about having such a head in their army.

2) The skin colour. I think that the tanned feel is perfect for a Khorne model. You don't get tanned from sun alone. Harsh wind and tough weather-conditions will tan you as well. Khorne bezerkers are probably in these conditions all the time when in the Eye of terror, and I would think that the enviroment onboard their ships would be akin to this as well. Hence the skin colour is perfect.

Other armies I would give the same skintone would be the Catachans, White Scars + successors and Space Wolves (yes, SW's, winterlands give exactly these kind of tans, just like dessert/jungle enviroments does).

1) By far my favoured piece of this mini is the right shoulderpad, the World Eater one. Perfect. The teeth and the general design of it is just exquisit. That one should make it into the ForgeWorld shoulderpadsection instantly!

 

 

Looking forward to seeing more from you. I'm fairly new here, and just picked up on the hobby after an 8 year hiatus. I'm mostly in it for the background part, but Mini's like this one are always welcome :pirate:

 

 

EDIT:

Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Chaos iconography under the sole is a neat detail. Sneaky.

[Muskie]

It certainly is a big axe. I like the cracked skull shoulder pad, I remember when those terminators came out, the lightning claw terminator champ has a similar shoulder pad...

 

Red is a difficult color to get just right. I don't like the orange highlights even yellow you see often enough, especially for Worldeaters. You need a dark evil red. I don't mind a little pink in my painting ;-) Some people are too dogmatic, too afraid to expirement, but your GD entries are all about expirementation, trial and error, a good example for all.

 

You need to move on from red though, might I suggest green. Blue and Gold may be all the rage in Chaos armies in the new Codex, yellow is a tough color to paint, so perhaps Imperial Fists...

[Boltman]

Thanks for the comments;

 

Yes, I've done plenty of red, though in my defense I have treated many different reds. Greens I use for Tyranids and Orks. I'll always remain a gamer first, so I paint what I want to play next. I will have more Deathguard and Khorne projects in the future but I have been tempted with Thousand Sons for a long time now. As soon as I finish my current Apocalypse project, blue is in my sights...

 

Boltman

[benno_wallace]

AS always amazing. Do you have a website with all your work on ti cause I often hear people talking abouts tuff of yours they have seen but I have no idea how old it is or whether u posted it at all

[Boltman]

I lack website-making skills, and my time is scarce, so no website. I'd like to, eventually. You can however find a few of my nicer stuff on Coolminiornot.com

[Acunnon]

My god that is an amazing model. For crying out loud there are even little arrows and the mark of the blood god on the bottom of the boot. You sir deserve all the kuddos and demons given and much more. I may have to make the treak up to the Canadian Games Day one year just see some of this in person.

[olii]

Fantastic! I love the axe and the skullpad. You said something about a tutorial for the armour?