A CROWN IS BORN../ The Hobbit Dwarves etc.. WIP's & Finished Builds Part 2

Ahh! The poor Dr. lost an enemy. This looks to be shaping up to be another wild build.

GubernatorFan wrote:I love that the quest for better articulation leads you to boldly march straight forward where few of us would dare follow. Chapeau! And looking forward to it. Happy New Year!

And to you! Is that the French Foreign Légion's motto or saying?

Stryker2011 wrote:Ahh! The poor Dr. lost an enemy. This looks to be shaping up to be another wild build.

Don't worry, didn't come from my collection, was bought for parts years ago!

Didn't find any concept pics on line but there is some great fan artwork and sculpts out there like this brilliant figure by a Scandinavian dude









I REALLY LIKE THIS, MIGHT BE THE ACTUAL PROP COSTUME AND THE LOOK I THINK I'M GOING TO GO FOR







THEN MORE OFFICIAL LICENSED STATUES















MOVIE STILLS? GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS OR STORY BOARDS?







Anyway I'm trying to avoid a 'Christmas look' so leaving the green out except for glow in the dark transparent paint much later down the road. I'm sticking with blacks, greys, dark reds, silver and gold mostly for the clothing; armour hasn't been decided yet but similar to the movie version with more damage. Did some more body mods to remove bulging parts, make room for some ribcage, join the top a bottom of the body better using a screw, washers and a spring etc..













REAL METAL MAIL IN BRASS AND SILVER, DIFFERENT SIZED RINGS TOO

Hard to believe it at this point, but I just know you are going to get there in the end. Your target look is really cool. And I was just saying that my (figurative) hat is off to you.

GubernatorFan wrote:Hard to believe it at this point, but I just know you are going to get there in the end. Your target look is really cool. And I was just saying that my (figurative) hat is off to you.

Oh right, cheers! I thought it might be FFL related because their white hats are venerated so highly in their units and they are famous for marching to death in the past. Although thinking about it I believe they call it a kepi not a chapeau?

The sea of madness continues! Replaced his arms with some that are longer and actually have a bicep swivel, since I had the Dremel out for that I decided to commit to where the bones will show through in places that can be more easily revealed than say under his chainmail skirt or cloak etc.. I went through my bag of monster bits to find donor muscle/flesh bits to encompass the bone and hopefully save me some sculpting, I also went through stuff for weapons and armour, he's a bit of a mixed bag as a character; sort of part medieval and part viking/saxon hence my temptation to give him a more viking sword, seax and shield rather than a Long Sword and dagger. I've got a few ideas about doing his distinctive 'rib cage' armour as you will see in the pics. Narrowed his shoulders as much as I can with his new weird arms that I also added more articulation too but he's a creepy ghost so doesn't have to strictly conform to a regular human shape/proportions, in fact I think a bit of distortion will make him look more menacing and 'not of this world' or rather Middle Earth.

 























INCREASING ELBOW ARTICULATION FRONT AND BACK













SORT OF NARROWER SHOULDERS LOL!





PROBABLE HEAD COMBO USING 'RED SKULL' FROM THE UPPER LIP WITH THE REGULAR SKULL JAW AND UPPER TEETH GRAFTED TO IT.









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Madness is right... look at that cornucopia of monster limbs! Wow.

GubernatorFan wrote:Madness is right... look at that cornucopia of monster limbs! Wow.

LOL, that's just the relevant ones!
Started putting the puzzle together, well making the pieces for the puzzle then putting them together!

I know it's early days, but I'm getting that Skeletor vibe again.

One of the craziest builds I've followed from you yet, lol!

The amount of cutting and rebuilding you do for these projects is immense.

GubernatorFan wrote:I know it's early days, but I'm getting that Skeletor vibe again.

skywalkersaga wrote:One of the craziest builds I've followed from you yet, lol!

Done nuttier ones like my 56" wide Vulture figure, my totally immersive Hulkbuster based MECHA suit for The Punisher just to name couple of more recent ones lol.

Stryker2011 wrote:The amount of cutting and rebuilding you do for these projects is immense.

Probably all for naught too now, his right leg (the one I haven't even scratched!) just decided to break off. Think I need to get rid of this silly idea of trying to find a use for this crap body tbh and just modify a decent cheap HT clone body.

That's a bummer after all that work.

Agreed, too bad about the body. But I'm sure you'll substitute it with something better.

This is bound to be really cool. A shame about the body breaking as I think it was starting to take shape.

Stryker2011 wrote:That's a bummer after all that work.

GubernatorFan wrote:Agreed, too bad about the body. But I'm sure you'll substitute it with something better.

Theboo-bomb wrote:This is bound to be really cool. A shame about the body breaking as I think it was starting to take shape.

Cheers guys! All good though, fixed it and added a bit of structural support so hopefully it won't happen again.









This going to look a bit mad but as you can see on the closeup of his elbow, his under tunic has a square pattern to it, sort of like tartan so I found this old Action Man coverall that should mimic it somewhat if put on backwards as his base layer of clothing.











Building the head now, using all the teeth and jaw from the basic skull and the rest from the Red Skull I recast. I hope to make the jaw movable but it's a bit tricky if I want to keep the ears, DOH! Just realised the helmet probably covers the ears so my complex solution is probably not needed lol!

Then again...



FFS...

Got out the milliput to sculpt some gorey rotting flesh to surround the exposed bones, decided to to only have his left side (our right) exposing flesh and bones (so I rebuilt his right arm out of his left arm parts), not 100% sure why it's just an aesthetic choice; maybe that half of his crypt/tomb was damaged and the rats and weather got to him? The jaw hinge is proving to be a pain, the metal pins I'm gluing on keep coming off. I reinforced his ribcage, found some diamond stitched pleather to use as his hip skirts and a couple of more suitable swords for movie accuracy.





































DECIDED HIS BONES NEEDED MORE ROTTING MUSCLE
AROUND THEM

Pretty cool looking thus far. The addition of the rotting flesh is a great idea.

Luckily the tendons had not yet rotted away. Very impressive. And very ingenuous. I hope the jaw works. At the risk of being more Captain Obvious than usual, and just in case you forget, you might want to paint the interior of the torso if one would see glimpses of it through that ribcage.

Stryker2011 wrote:Pretty cool looking thus far. The addition of the rotting flesh is a great idea.

Cheers Stryker!

GubernatorFan wrote:Luckily the tendons had not yet rotted away. Very impressive. And very ingenuous. I hope the jaw works. At the risk of being more Captain Obvious than usual, and just in case you forget, you might want to paint the interior of the torso if one would see glimpses of it through that ribcage.

Well It's all going to be sprayed with black primer as usual (I'll make sure to get right in there behind the ribcage) and then sand back to the bone colour. Good point though, I've got some icky looking rubber guts parts from other kits and smaller scale figures I can probably squish in there to give him a bit of a General Grievous look!

Keep meaning to post this here, it's the only video I know of that fully explains the 'Oathbreakers' existence in LOTR:

Sounds very promising. And nice video explanation, thanks for linking it.

GubernatorFan wrote:Sounds very promising. And nice video explanation, thanks for linking it.

Got to find the parts first but I think they are in a random Star Wars aliens build bits bag in a draw.

Finally got the stupid jaw to attach without breaking off the metal pins or looking wonky, only took about 50 tries! (constantly filing, Dremelling, bending wire etc..) So now it can open and close, got rid of the ears in the end, if I want to add ears I have plenty in a bag just like fingers!
Carefully unpicked all the stitching in the boot to get the diamond pattern out safely and get rid of the smelly liner yuck.
Managed to break another joint, this time on the elbow but it was my fault, I accidently let glue or milliput freeze the swivel joint in place while adding the bone or sculpting the muscle tissue. All good now as a modified LEGO Bionicles joint set was grafted in to replace it. He has feet and a neck too with articulation of a rubber ball in his head and the lower neck joint does the usual thing. Added a little bit more muscle tissue to his ribcage edge just in case it's needed and have chosen some mail hands, one will be modified with bone finger bits, his boots will have bone toe bits as well.

(INDULGING IN MY EVENTUAL SUCCESS HERE LOL)

Glad you conquered the jaw. And nice to see him take shape.

GubernatorFan wrote:Glad you conquered the jaw. And nice to see him take shape.

Thanks GTF, getting there!

Done his hands with bone mods, given him a spray of black primer and now I'm tackling his boots, I noticed the figure has lace up boots like many other LOTR characters so I've decided to go with that look; I just have a few options on how to do it.. Anyway, here he is cosplaying as a 'Jason And The Argonauts' character!

Wow, fascinating to watch this take shape.....

So cool, Alex. Love the Jason and the Argonauts reference. Nice work thus far on all the mods.

Wow, fascinating to watch this take shape..... wrote:

Thanks SWS!

Stryker2011 wrote:So cool, Alex. Love the Jason and the Argonauts reference. Nice work thus far on all the mods.

Cheers Stryker!

Finally found that rubbery guts piece I've been looking for to use under his ribcage, wasn't with all the other rubbery guts stuff which is just as well since I still haven't found that while going through my entire storage room! I was a bit dirty so cleaned it up and coated it in silicone oil. I also made his cloak and may attach that black patterned gauze to it so it kind of replicates the patterns on the cloak on the statue. I then did a full mock up to get an idea where I'm going from here.

Once you had it all primed in black, it looked like a complete figure already, perhaps something along the lines of T-whatever-hundred endoskeleton, but indeed Jason and the Argonauts style. Nice job revitalizing the guts, make sure you hang them the right way -- if there is one. The mock up really helps explain where you're going.

Oooh, i love the fabrics you chose for the cloak!

GubernatorFan wrote:Once you had it all primed in black, it looked like a complete figure already, perhaps something along the lines of T-whatever-hundred endoskeleton, but indeed Jason and the Argonauts style. Nice job revitalizing the guts, make sure you hang them the right way -- if there is one. The mock up really helps explain where you're going.

Yes very T-900? With the red power light from my fan coincidentally right next to his eye socket! I didn't notice until later but thought 'that's kind of cool. que: Terminator music!'   As for the gut, well he's sort of a magic, cursed, mummified, zombie, ghost so probably doesn't need them working!    There is something that looks like a heart in there, a stomach, some colon but his lungs and liver have gone to the rats! LOL. Probably doesn't help that these organs belong in a giant alien monster in a different scale and in a different galaxy a long time ago and far, far away!!  

skywalkersaga wrote:Oooh, i love the fabrics you chose for the cloak!

Cheers! Funnily enough I don't like them at all for this figure anymore because I think he should be more Celtic and have a woolen tartan style red cloak instead!

Just a couple of lazy pic grabs (ooh, grew up with this artist!) Bloody impossible to find much in the way of Irish historical references since the English Bastards destroyed most of it and we were tribes for a long time hell bent on killing each other before that! But this is a gist of what I'm going for.