Sculpting a Venator Head
Things have been quiet on this blog of late, but rest assured valued reader for my time has been spent in worthwhile figure related endeavors. I have been working on a couple of things at once (in my usual ADHD fashion) as enthusiasm grips me. At least some of these projects will come to fruition in the coming weeks, I swear. 😉
This is a series of shots I have been taking over the last week of a head sculpt I am working on for Asslessman, a chap who frequents the Oldhammer Forum. He mentioned that he was looking to get some suitable heads to create a Venator gang for Necromunda – Venators are basically bounty hunters. This is a perfect project for a budding sculptor as it is small, self contained in scope, and it’s relatively easy to sculpt due to the caricature nature of the subject matter.
The source material is this John Blanch illustration (Copyright GW and used without permission for illustrative purposes, natch):
A fair bit done and a fair bit more to go!
December 3, 2013 at 18:20
Good stuff! That looks really nice. Its quite fun that its a Confrontation design too. It doesnt get much more Oldhammer than that 🙂
Do you have a link to the thread?
December 3, 2013 at 18:57
Thanks Sho3box!
Thread is:
http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1534&sid=81dee4794a19a44e20bbe0aa0777f629
December 4, 2013 at 12:45
Yeah, definitely sign me up for a handful of those at some point if you can please!
Fancy bringing some Confrontation-y, Necromunda-y sorts of figures to a sci-fi Rules With No Name game at an Oldhammer event in Foundry in 2014? Having visited Foundry and discussed it with Marcus last Friday, I am 100% certain that you and I would have a hoot at it.
Those guys would surely enjoy seeing a Venator gang 🙂
December 4, 2013 at 13:02
I am sure i will make a few bits and pieces suitable for Venator conversions which you will naturally get copies of. This project will definitely up my sculpting and casting game a fair bit.
Rules with no name is a fun system, I would definitely be keen to do that, what provisional time frame?
December 3, 2013 at 22:24
This just too great, my limited skills won’t allow me to return the favor but be assured I’ll do my best to make the best Venator gang I can !
December 4, 2013 at 09:37
No worries, I enjoy the process. Will be fun to eventually see this gang take shape – hopefully it won’t take as long as my projects.
😉
December 4, 2013 at 19:52
That’s really nice to see the stages of the sculpting as it goes from the ‘green sausages’ look to increasingly smooth (though of course my own attempts only ever get to the ‘green blob’ step). I will look forward to seeing more of this.
The fact that it’s a project about Confrontation only makes it better. I loved playing that half-system with cobbled together rules for the bits that were never published. What’s not to like about a game where there are six different damage tables, four of the functionally identical (i.e. your gang member is dead whatever you roll).
December 5, 2013 at 12:53
Hey Argentbadger, this is a good article and required reading for epoxy sculpting:
http://www.bananaking.net/cento/workshop/conv_green.htm
Confrontation was a strange bird indeed being between an RPG and a skirmish game. I only played it a couple of times myself but it was the setting that captured the imagination rather than the ruleset. There was definitely fun potential in there though. The Venators never got a decent run in the Necromunda game so it is nice to revisit John Blanche’s concepts.