second beast for my Lost World-type games is a Woolly rhinoceros. It was made alongside Megatherium, so it has came mostly like it - too thin and with fish-eyes. Still, I have learned alot regarding sculpting its hair. What I did with both, was cover it in putty and then score it. I guess this approach would work for Megatherium, to stimulate its short hair, but with woolly animals, it would be better to work from bottom up in strips, overlapping previous set. While this would take few days instead of few minutes, it would greatly help with the overall looks of the model in the end. If you look close enough, you can see later added putty on rhino's belly, to see what I mean.
Personally, I am even more proud of this one compared to Megatherium, but even here, I had quite some trouble finding art I'd like - one would think it's appearance would be straight forward, but it never is. Here, I have came across Elasmotherium, a mountain sized beast! It is low on my list of interesting animals (sculpting wise), but it can't cease to amaze me just how huge those animals were.
In game of Strange Aeons, woolly rhino will be my substitute for triceratops and that is about all the explanation needed, hehe.
I do have one question for you guys...there is a certain scenario in a book, where you steal dinosaur eggs and every now and then enraged momma dino comes stampeding through the table. Now, rhinoceros would be perfect for the stampeding part, but I have no idea what I would want to substitute eggs for? And don't tell me baby rhinos, too cute, too cute!
I was thinking simply using eggs of other birds, while stampedo would still be done by rhino...I guess territorial animals wouldn't like some weird apes running around their area.
Thanks for looking,
Mathyoo
RNino looks great Mathyoo, look forward to seeing what beastie you come up with next.
ReplyDeleteAs for the stampeding, I suppose if your in their territory, that's all the reason needed to set them off!
Thanks Dave! I'll let next one to be a surprise, but if I can get myself to it, it should be another extinct animal :P
DeleteGood looking sculpt. It does seem a little thin from head on but otherwise spot on. Keep on sculpting and sharing.
ReplyDeleteI only had height scale shot, so that part was quite easy - draw a rough form and bent the wire, but it didn't work for width, heh! Thanks for the compliment, does keep me going!
DeleteGreat looking sculpt again mattyoo
ReplyDeleteAs for the eggs, just use eggs for one of the big flightless birds, today these would be Ostriches, but Madagascar had an even bigger one, now sadly extinct. Ostiches can fairly vicious creatures too.
There are also a fair few prehistoric flightless birds, such as the Terror Bird. (Steve barber does a 20-25mm model with nest of one) http://stevebarbermodels.com/
Yeah, I've checked Terror bird out as soon as I got back home in April, but I've decided against it as it doesn't fly and doesn't represent pterodactyl sufficiently (I went with argentavis magnificencis or something - supposedly biggest bird ever). I have watched video on Terror bird on YT and I must say, makes me want to sculpt it. It is so..bizzare. A dominating predator that looks like an ostrich! :D
DeleteLooks great mate, while not have some strange little dinosaurs or rare birds or something.
ReplyDeleteThanks mate, will probably just do eggs, and send some other monster stampeding...it really doesn't matter when you think of it :P
DeleteI think you can sculpt mate. I wish I were that good.
ReplyDeleteHaha, thanks Clint. I am sure you can bend some wire, fill it with putty and scrap it with a needle :P
DeleteUsing big words makes me feel smart too.
ReplyDeleteUsing short words makes me feel better.
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Nice paint job btw