Some more silhouettes with sallet. I call them sallehouetts.
Two generations ago, we stopped burying our dead.Speaking of fire, we tried burning the forests to stop the hordes.Scorched Earth they call it. It helped us see them at night, at least. They don't sleep.But didn't stop them. But we shall fight them on the beaches.They call it the 'end times'. I prefer 'hammer times'. GubernatorFan wrote:For an annoyances-ridden day, you produced some beautiful and artistic imagery. Of course none of the details really show yet, but the tantalizing clues silhouettes are stunning. By the way, have you been reading Hungarian or Polish lately, because you seem taken with the letter combination "sz"? In Polish it would be like English sh/German sch (and have you decided to change the spelling of Jaroyesh?), but in Hungarian "sz" corresponds to a plain s (or ss), whereas "s" would be sh (sch). And I knew that warhammer will come in perfectly useful...
Thanks a lot sir. The sallet fell down while shooting and broke in two, perfect day haha. Good thing about these prints, the cuts are perfect and good to superglue.
Did I use the sz somewhere else too? Well I think my use of sz is more of Polish origins as this is the language I hear and feel more connected to, while not really speaking and understanding it that good haha. But cool of you noticing it, yeah I think I will change the name to Jaroyesz. It looks cool.
The sh might have sounded better for the universe I originally created the character in, so I kinda want to make a distinction here I think. The Empire I mentioned was a multi cultured monolith of many different cultural and ethnic groups held together by an ancient religion with Gothic, Catholic, Giger, Pagan, Satanic, Lovecraftian elementes. There might be many medieval Polish, Russian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Slavic influences there, but I don't want to work too much with 'real world stand ins' haha. Glad to have you by my side whenever I drop little worldbuilding stuff in between pictures.
Stryker2011 wrote:Cool to see this thread resurrected, Ovy. Sorry to hear about all your frustrations, and I can understand completely. The silhouette pics look amazing, and the story you wrote is dire to say the least, but with the new found hammer solution perhaps not all is lost...
Looking forward to seeing the finished product, and I’m sure it will be up to your usual standards.
Haha yeah thanks for the empathy. Our little sixth world problems. Glad that the atmosphere came through as intended.
skywalkersaga wrote:Oooh, stunning images, Ovy! The headstones in the background are particularly effective. And I finally understand the grave importance of the warhammer! :'D
Hope things go more smoothly for you soon. <3
Thanks a lot! Beautiful pun. The headstones are actually from that Necropolis in Glasgow. Amaazing place.
Valiarde wrote:I told you already, but your first iteration is still stunning even though you are redoing it now. I think it was this thread (on another platform) that opened my eyes to the world of modifications and worbla!
Even though I won't have the patience doing gloves and or moveable things like knee pads myself, I would throw it out of the window in no time or would put it onto the shelf and never move it again lol
Your new version looks very promising, even though we can just ee the shadows. Love the different backgrounds you choose for her.
And perfectionism can be stressful, especially if you really want to top your first stunning work!
Haha yeah glad having helped you on your way of getting customize and using worbla. Hot water method is much more comfortable than heat gun use for me. An before you throw any figure out of the window, put padding in front of it so I can collect it later.
And while the original armor.might look more hefty and artsy with it's spikes and oversized fantasy stuff, I like the new armor a lot more already.
BAMComix wrote:Love the shadow pics! fantastic work!
Thanks a lot! Can only recommend this kind of shooting for lazy moments, just putting the figure in front of a screen in a dark room.
Tjolnir wrote:feel free to post them in whatever state they are in, first second or 10th reboot. it's always inspiring to see your and the others stuff here on the board and sometimes the work in progress helps more than the final project in terms of learning something new or getting some food for thought.
i know from personal experience getting into something full throttle only to burn yourself out someway down the road. got a few almost finished figures laying around only to feel pre-exhausted at the thought of building yet another diorama. still, from every project on ice or on hold indefinitely, i took some experience for those i finished.
Thanks, yeah I might get up some WIP pics tomorrow. Glad that it can help you.
And yeah this project was almost finished, but then I started the other universe, learned so much and looking back at the old figure it just had to be modified.