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Is your skull ripe for the taking?

Skulltaker conversion for Warhammer I've been working on for a while and just finished today. Kitbashed out of Bloodletter and Bloodreaver bits with considerable sculpting work in green stuff.(Acrylic polymer resin.) Gave him a duelist cape of flayed skin, a heart in his hand and used a dagger as the hilt for his Slayer Sword and sculpted the burning blade.

You can't see it especially well here but there's a blood trail behind him and blood dripping over him from the cape and heart. He's standing atop a rocky outcropping over a lava pool, the rocks made from cork and set into volcanic rock paste to mimic a hardened lava flow.


Now it's just a matter of getting him on the field to take some skulls for Khorne.馃拃
SW-User
Although I'm late to this, come and get it [i]heretic[/i].

Anyway, it looks good, but the sword is a bit all over the place in terms of what colours are where. And the cloak looks a bit.... plain, I guess. It doesn't look like there's any real texture to it at all, so is kind of reminiscent of a tarp.
UndeadPrivateer31-35, M
@SW-User It looks notably better in person than here, honestly. The blade is meant to be a Hellfire blade so was going with a transition from black to white at the base and with eight flame licks moving up along the blade. Sort of imagined as a freeze frame, as with most models. If he were animated the flames would move up the blade disappear at the tip and re-appear at the base. Also the cape actually has a subtle bubbly flesh grain texture to it from me working it with my fingers that the camera totally fails to capture.

Valid criticisms, though. I do need to work on the wet blending on the blade and will probably repaint it a bit. I don't particularly love the way it transitions on the blade itself and the flame could be touched up.
SW-User
@UndeadPrivateer The blade transition is what I was meaning. You don't even really need to wet blend; simply using thinned layers is enough, but you have to take the flames on the outer into account.
UndeadPrivateer31-35, M
@SW-User There actually was, the layering was being tricky with that and lead to the shoddy transitioning. Hence thinking I need to do wet blending to really get it half decent. The overlapping "glow" effects aren't very layer-friendly.
NickiHijabF
I didn鈥檛 understand any of that geek talk but that鈥檚 awesome!
UndeadPrivateer31-35, M
@NickiHijab Hey, some of that was crafty talk, you hobbyist!
5thApprentice31-35, M
basilfawlty8931-35, M
No, I take skulls,not get mine taken. My ancestors were headhunters before we became Catholics.

 
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