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Remember this Gormiti?
Well, it's a proper ent now after some modeling putty and some creative sprue stretching. Three copies of the figure above were lathered with model putty, stuck with flame-melted sprue parts and subjected to black and brown spray paint to produce these bad boys.
The original Gormiti had very minimal textures on its skin, so I applied a generous helping of Tamiya model putty on the surface. I also tried to break up some of the toy's original shape. An asymmetrical look seemed more appropriate. Then armed with a raggedy old chisel brush and a toothpick, I went over the putty and roughened the surface, trying to make it look like rough bark.
Some leftover sprue was heated and burned atop a lit candle. With the plastic bubbling, I stretched, twisted, joined and slopped around the molten material until I came up with branch-like structures. These were trimmed and superglued on the toy's body. Some more putty covered irregular joins and empty spaces between the branches. I was tempted to add eyebrows and a nose to the face but decided to retain the skull-like visage. Maybe these ents were more like Old Man Willow, a bit crazy and malevolent. I need not stress the importance of safety when doing something like this. I've been burnt before so I have a pair of rubber gloves handy for occasions like this as well as a set of metal tweezers and blades.
I havent decided how to paint these guys so I primed them black and then lightly sprayed a bronish coat to check how the texturing looked like. These ents will be joining my People of the Woods army soon.
Remember this Gormiti?Well, it's a proper ent now after some modeling putty and some creative sprue stretching. Three copies of the figure above were lathered with model putty, stuck with flame-melted sprue parts and subjected to black and brown spray paint to produce these bad boys.
The original Gormiti had very minimal textures on its skin, so I applied a generous helping of Tamiya model putty on the surface. I also tried to break up some of the toy's original shape. An asymmetrical look seemed more appropriate. Then armed with a raggedy old chisel brush and a toothpick, I went over the putty and roughened the surface, trying to make it look like rough bark.
Some leftover sprue was heated and burned atop a lit candle. With the plastic bubbling, I stretched, twisted, joined and slopped around the molten material until I came up with branch-like structures. These were trimmed and superglued on the toy's body. Some more putty covered irregular joins and empty spaces between the branches. I was tempted to add eyebrows and a nose to the face but decided to retain the skull-like visage. Maybe these ents were more like Old Man Willow, a bit crazy and malevolent. I need not stress the importance of safety when doing something like this. I've been burnt before so I have a pair of rubber gloves handy for occasions like this as well as a set of metal tweezers and blades.
I havent decided how to paint these guys so I primed them black and then lightly sprayed a bronish coat to check how the texturing looked like. These ents will be joining my People of the Woods army soon.
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteI used some of those MageKnight figures for ents/treants myself:
http://wp.me/pBJn2-ge
I really like your use of stretched sprue for branches; great idea.