NEMESIS, a lunchtime project

[Lonesome Crow]

Cheers Poyks
Just a quick update. I have finished the skin areas of the model, there are a few small parts still to do, like fingernails and teeth.













Since these photos were taken I have painted the leather parts of his trunks and wrist guards.

[Bagnew]

Incredible! That eye-making process is brilliant!

[Lonesome Crow]

Thanks Bagnew

Finished off the leather work today and also the metal studs and skulls.









Working on the sword tomorrow.

[mrgrotey]

Three Words...

Qua Lee Tee!!!

[Deleted]

Whoa, that's some nice art, Lonesome.

I've never heard of Nemesis, but your project is making me want to check it out. ;D

[Lonesome Crow]

Thank you both.

It didn't go so well today. I was working on the hilt of the sword, wrapping strips of Milliput around the white plastic tube but the Milliput was too freshly mixed and too sticky. I was not happy with the end result.
I'll try again tomorrow and mix the Milliput an hour earlier.
Some days are good days, some days aren't.

[Lonesome Crow]

I managed to squeeze in another couple of hours work on the model this week.
I've concentrated on the base, I had intended to cover the base with a mixture of rocks and alien-plants, but instead I went for rocks and a shattered human skull.

About 10 years ago, whilst clearing out my garage I found an old bag of cement that had set like..... well like concrete. ;D as I dropped it in the rubbish bin it broke up into interesting and very realistic rock shapes (they looked like big rock on a small scale) I chose the best looking of the chunks and took a rubber-latex mould of them. They remained unused for 10 years until I started this project.
I poured a mixture of polyurethane resin and plastic padding into the moulds and poured it back out again, leaving a thin coating of the resin mixture on the inside of the mould, about 2mm thick. When set I removed them from the rubber moulds and I had a bunch of very realistic, light-weight, grey rocks.



I stuck the hollow resin rocks to the wooden base with super glue.



I filled in all the gaps between the rocks with Milliput and left it 30 mins to semi-set.



Using one of the rubber rock mould, turned inside-out I pressed rock details into the semi-set Milliput.

When the Milliput was fully set I painted it the same colour grey as the other rocks.



When the painted base was completely dry I dry-brushed pale grey paint over the whole base to pick out the rough rock features.(Dry-brushing is as it sounds, you put some paint on a large, soft paint brush and then wipe it off onto a tissue leaving the brush almost dry).



I cheated with the skull. I took a silicon mould of a skull from a model anatomy kit I bought many years ago, I cast the skull in polyurethane resin and hollowed it out and added features to make it more realistic, then smashed it and arranged the pieces on the base, glueing them in place when happy with the position.





This is how the model looks at the moment, almost finished, still some minor details to add.
I might have another go at making the sword, the blade on this one is a bit too wide and the guard is much too big.

[Lonesome Crow]

Here's a short animation of the finished piece, it's a bit small, Photobucket has resize my original.



I've remade the sword, wasn't happy with first effort.
I'll post better pictures and hopefully a better vid when I have better daylight for taking photos.