I've been going a little Scout Blaster blind, so I've been looking for a distraction. While browsing at Boarders, I came across a Visual Dictionary for the POTC trilogy! Not being one to pass up pretty pictures, I grabbed a cup of coffee, a few more books, a sat down. While I wasn't looking for anything particular, and haven't watched the films in a while, I was struck by how cool Davy Jones' pipe looked. It's design gave me a barrage of possible backstory imagary, as it carries several of the crab motifes that flow through Jones' and Tia Dalma's other props. So I picked the book up for a cool 20 bucks, and started to think about how I might want to start sculpting the pipe. The book also has a great cutaway of the Black Pearl, and some nice, up close pics of Sao Fang's chart, if I'm ever that ballsy to build it.
So, I started on Monday night with just the bowl, which is a wild looking combo of barnacle, driftwood, and rosebud. I can only imagine what it may have looked like before its owner's corruption.
Once it went together, I cast into some OMMOO, so that I could sculpt on the crab legs around the bowl wihtout dinging or fingerprinting it. The cast came out clean, and is easy to hold onto while sculpting. Today, I sat down between casting Singlepoint Scopes and worked on the grasping crab legs. Once done, I'll cast this again so I can do the bottom 'crab shell' which should be fun, and since no reference exists, I'll get to play. I'm thinking about doing the Calypso face that we see on the lockets, Chest, and even on the deck of the Dutchman.
Hope you like this, even though the clay's nasty looking and the sculpt looks very dirty.
I'm really looking forward to painting, as the sutble coppertones, and red tipped claws should be a real blasty blast!
A big thanks to Darth Cross who passed along great reference photos from the previous threads.
So, I started on Monday night with just the bowl, which is a wild looking combo of barnacle, driftwood, and rosebud. I can only imagine what it may have looked like before its owner's corruption.
Once it went together, I cast into some OMMOO, so that I could sculpt on the crab legs around the bowl wihtout dinging or fingerprinting it. The cast came out clean, and is easy to hold onto while sculpting. Today, I sat down between casting Singlepoint Scopes and worked on the grasping crab legs. Once done, I'll cast this again so I can do the bottom 'crab shell' which should be fun, and since no reference exists, I'll get to play. I'm thinking about doing the Calypso face that we see on the lockets, Chest, and even on the deck of the Dutchman.
Hope you like this, even though the clay's nasty looking and the sculpt looks very dirty.
I'm really looking forward to painting, as the sutble coppertones, and red tipped claws should be a real blasty blast!
A big thanks to Darth Cross who passed along great reference photos from the previous threads.
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