Grot Scout Walker Pt. 4

So, I haven't been totally idle. The pilots arms are attached to his body, but the sculpting is going slower as critical dimensions are being approached. 

They're still too big, but I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be able to produce something partially acceptable. They will end up being a minor part in the bigger picture, so we'll see. His face will be more important. 

I also glued the Scout legs in a way that made me happy, and I started painting the cockpit interior. This painting is probably a waste of time since it's hard to see inside, but if I didnt try I would know, even if nobody else would. 

The gauges were hard to paint, not because of their size so much but more because of how deeply recessed they were. It's literally a battle with myself to not go back and fix something that nobody will be able to see. I tried to make all the gauges be either in the red or right on the edge of failure...

I also hacked the door off, because. 

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"Strategic Objective"

A pile of crap glued onto the lid of a spice jar, or the "Comm. Sat. Relay Strategic Objective"? The truth probably lies somewhere in between those extremes. 

I really wanted to try out the green stuff and see how hard it is to work with while it is soft, and I also wanted to find out how tough it is to shape, be it shave, sand, scape, etc. once it's dry. To do this I constructed this beauty from some bits of wire, a pen, a hunk of sprue, and whatever else was lying around my junk box. Then I tried to add some "blocks" of green stuff.

My experiences so far are as follows. The initial sculpting is/was pretty good.  The material starts out quite tacky, but working with a bit of grease makes things pretty easy.  

Does the kind of grease matter? I dunno, I used good old nose grease, which is convenient, because it's always between your eyes and the work... As I've found with other projects of this type, organic things seem easier to sculpt than metal bits. Mostly because the former are typically devoid of 90 degree angles and perfectly flat surfaces... by trying to add square blocks this was as hard a first test as possible (idiot). Once the resin hardens and I have a go at the post sculpting, sculpting, as it were, I'll update again.

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Scout Pt. 3

The strongest Grot in the world! This is what the title would be if it wasn't part of a series. 

Today I decided to attempt to carve a grot arm out of a human arm. Sounds impossible, and that may be true, but as of right now it appears to be working. 

I forgot to do a full before and after, but I have the left, right comparison, which is good enough.  

The bicep is still a little large, along with everything else, but I'll trim it further once he's together. Really it was pretty easy, I just used the Exacto and the tiny GW files. I've got lots of larger Ork arms to use as a visual reference for muscles, and Grot arms too! Really it's just a matter of copying what you can see right in front of you (no anatomy knowledge required). 

Admittedly, I was quite intimidated when I started, but it was actually pretty easy. Originally he had some stick grenade at his waste, but that got in the way so it had to go too. 

Again I failed to take a before and after, but this works. To be honest I think the whole thing is going to work!

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Captured Scout Pt. 2

Today I began some work on the scout.  I started with the usual, trimming, mold line removal, and test fitting of parts. 

Overall I'm pretty impressed with the fit of most parts. The legs were somewhat annoying to pose, and that probably took the majority of the time. The reason for the challenge is that they are molded such that certain angles can be easily locked in, (to increase structural rigidity), but at the cost of easy adjustability. 

The grot is perfect in height, but modifying the arms to fit the hands will be a challenge. I haven't decided if I should chop everything apart and then put it all together, or hack down the scout arms into sticks and sculpt the muscles back up.

The other obvious challenge is the stepwise paint and assembly that will be required; the cockpit interior will have to be painted before assembly...

Stay tuned,

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