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Published: 2004-09-15 06:20:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2354; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 198
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- here you go then folks, it's that Magnum lad with axe included - please do your best to resist the temptation offered by references to his 'big chopper' (ha, beat you to it!)....hmph, lost focus a bit, which was the problem before and the reason for cutting the axe out of the previous pic - need to tinker with me aperture a bit, if you'll pardon the expression - and sort out the old depth of field cobblers.
- anyway, I'll leave it with yer - a picture says a grand's worth, as they reckon - so I'll shut me gob and let him get on with it...
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- yep, I reckon that would be very painful - but then again, probably not for very long, as I\'m just as sure it\'d all be over very quickly afterwards...
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AH yes, seeing as how if you were sliced by something over twice your size (if this was to scale)... You'ld probably die.
Unless your superhuman. But then you wouldn't be sliced in the first place, you'ld dodge it. Or something. WOW I had too much coffee today O.O
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OMG, the apes are rebelling! I was right Planet of the Apes was a documentry from the future(I'm too scared out of my mind to use quotes from the movie). *runs off* Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! *runs back* Oh yea, and great sculpture btw, I'm gonna fav it. *runs off again screaaming more*.
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Wow, this is superb, soooo lifelike. Was it cast or carved?. I must have a look at some more of your stuff.
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- actually, it sort of involves bits of several processes - a bit of casting, some carving, but mostly straight-out sculpting: I tend to make the head, hands and feet for any armature first of all out of plasticene which I then mould and cast so's I've got a sturdy piece of stuff for those particular parts of the model, since they tend to get moved around a lot while I'm figuring out how the pose is going to go; sometimes I'll carve back some of what I've already sculpted if it's needed or if something's not quite right; but most of the rest of any given piece is sculpted on as successive layers or portions of the figure's body built up from my favoured medium, something called milliput...
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Wow, thats realy interesting (sorry, I always think that sounds so sarchastic when its written down like that, its not meant that way). I used to use milliput when we used to do wargaming....hold on, I thought milliput came in small packs, how big are your pieces then?
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- yeah, I know what you mean with the 'really interesting' bit, it's hard to sound sincere in type, and even if you emphasise something it comes off as sarcasm instead...
...but yep, milliput's still in relatively small packs (about 113g if my anoraking skills are up to par) - and meanwhile this fella's about 9" tall to the top of his pointy little hat, roughly equivalent to 1/6th scale... it's just my favoured medium I guess, I've had a crack at most things that it's more or less possible to sculpt with (though still not sculpey as yet, ho hum), and my old mate milli's the one I keep coming back at - having said that though I've gotta re-familiarise meself with 'green stuff' again, I'm supposed to begetting busy with some miniature-work, and milliput isn't necessarily the best for that kinda thing.
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I just had a vision of you standing in a studio with a 3/4 finished, Full Size Gorilla sculpture, knee deep in Milliput boxes, with it stuck in your hair and all over your clothes, on the phone to the 400th model shop, trying to get hold of more, as you'd bought nearly all the milliput in the country..... Odd what images the human brain can conjour up
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WOW LOOK AT THAT BIG CHOP--!... ops, hehe, it looks awsome! He looks so real! I've been thinking about getting a miniature gorilla, to roam in my garden. You think the gnomes will get jealous?
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- well, so long as he doesn't show any unwarranted interest in the lady gnomes, (gnome-ess-es? - doesn't seem to be a female equivalent for 'gnome' - guess they're like Tolkien-dwarves, it's hard to tell the difference... which I suppose means he probably wouldn't show 'em much interest in the first place) I reckon they'd all get on well enough, unless they were gonna get jealous of his impressive implement...
- heh, I ought to show you the gnomes I used to make, utter silly-ness-ity.
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haha, well I suppose all the gnomes would look the same, the ladies would all have long white beards and they wouldnt exactly have any chemical odors for deferentientation. And gorillaz would probably go for something more banana-like.
I dare you to submit these utter silly ness essit teas. You've curiosed me.
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...hmm, I will have to dig up the files from my days of garden-ornamenting, I think they're buried under the front step along with the key to my soul - it's a good thing you reminded me, 'cause I'd forgotten where I'd put that thing, my soul's been locked for ages - it'll need a right good spring-cleaning to get the spiderwebs out...
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Awesome! Absolutely! I had a humbling experience with one and I've been endeared to them ever since. 
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- one of my favourite critters on the planet, I'd be happy to put up with one as a flatmate if my doorways were wider.
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- I reckon he just doesn't like to be photographed...
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yeah i checked your site. Realy like you work especialy the warlord of thr damned one.
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My that is a large axe you have! 
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Pure brilliance, as always. Keep up the good work.
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- thanks mate - I'll keep on keeping on, as much as I can manage to...
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Again, I have to agree with the others: The expression you captured here is soooo great! Excellent work!
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-ahh, I cheated a bit, I kept looking in my mirror for reference on the face...
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i love the texture and his face/expression. i find it hard to get good expressions on the plasticine i abuse. nice job!
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- thanks, much appreciated - and meanwhile, the good thing about plasticene though is at least you can have another crack at it if everything goes A/T - I still use plasticene for making the faces for most of these things for casting up, so's I don't lose anything to making a mess of it every now and again...
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love the glint on the helmet. good stuff as always dude!
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- heh, cheers for that - though I have to say I can't really take credit for that glint, that's just a bit of fried gold courtesy of a bright morning...
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- cheers! - seems to have been the best view, axe-wise - from any other vantage-point it just didn't have the same presence in the pic, but the perspective in this one is just right for emphasising the size of the thing...
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Superb sculpting skills as always Snuurg, Axe looks awesome.
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- hi again hellsblood, thanks for that - just seen I've got a note from you too in my box, I'll get to it in a tick or two...
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- heh - it's a precision instrument, you know - finely crafted and delicately balanced, masterfully...nahh, it's just a damn big axe for crush-cutting the hell out of anything stupid enough to be in the way when it starts swinging...
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I haven't been keeping up with your stuff lately! This ape-sequence is great, they all have so much personality.
Nice axe, too.
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..hmm, could almost have made some sort of triptych / trinity kind of a thing with these three I suppose, they might have leant themselves well to the fact that some of the higher-ups in the Catholic Church are known as 'primates', heh heh (well, I think it's the catholics, anyway)...
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Just slap mitres on all their heads, they'd look great, especially the guy with the axe.
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lol, thats freak'n awsome. I wish I had a gorilla like that....a body guard
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- heh, yeah, he could be pretty handy for hiding behind when trouble starts - mind you, you'd have a hell of a job trying to get him to fit in the limo when you had to get anywhere... make a good chauffeur though I guess, he could steer with his feet if needs be, though quite where or when that necessity might arise I really don't know...
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- thanks mate, much appreciated!
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- thanks much, glad to hear he's such a popular bloke, that'll be one less night crying into his pillow once he hears about it...
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...not a slur on you anthro-modelling skills but the axe is the best part of this. Big, pointy, choppy things always do it for me....
I have a digi camera with auto-focus which is a pain in the arse for close-ups. Even in macro mode, it's guaranteed to focus on the wrong thing.
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- well, everyone should own at least one big cutting-things-up device, I'd say... and yeah, still got a lot of getting-used-to to do with this photo-machine o' mine, used to know more or less exactly what I needed to be doing with my old Olympus SLR, but it's all gone back to the finding things out stage again with this thing... I also need to find out where the hell I put the macro-lens-adaptor that I got with it, hmm...
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That's really coo, love the way the fur is made as always. Keep up the awesome work...hehe. do you do commisions
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- thanks sumilidon, always appreciated - and yup, I do do commissions, have a look here if you wanna look into it...
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AWESOME. I like his stance and the determined, somewhat evil glint in his eyes.
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- thanks, Nell - reckon he might've just seen something worth eating, that's what that look'll be (hmm, I seem to be making up word abbreviations again, sorry about that...)
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Saw your other animals. Nice work. This is the best me thinks cause you got yer guy in a good setting. some of the others are around grass twice the size of the model, and its obvious its teeny. this one, though, is in the right folliage and looks monsterous. had to see the others b4 I knew what was up, thought it was a huge statue or that u had digitally put him in. nice job. yeah, DOF is off slightly, in hand and axe, but nice that up close folliage is blurred, and DOF almost works as is, kinda makes his hand look almost like slight motion blur. Gives a bit o life. BTW, you cant stop me!! hes got a teeny chopper where I grew up.
-Thummper
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