July Blanche (July)

Brother Meredith said:
The scripture is a little thick of line and not sure what he aiming at with the gun in the air (victory fire maybe)?
Otherwise fun conversion and suitably grimdark! 👍💀
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Thank you my writing has often been banned from typing pools so this is almost a complement!! But as I may need the skill in the future attempts at improvement will be made, any advice would be most welcome.
 
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I would say almost ink like viscosity and break up the horizontal lines into chunks. That will look more like words than one big long line?

If imitating scripture.
Maybe arrange the text into 2 columns per page.
 
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I agree on the thin ink like consistency, you then get a bit of variation in the colour density which ends up looking more like cursive script as the ink pools a little more in places. Otherwise a very fine brush and I do try to break up the horizontals a bit. I think Michael's suggestion of multiple columns is a good one.
 
orkwrangler said:
Behold my total lack of sculpting skills.

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In the end I opted for a squig with a lower centre of gravity for my project. The other one kept falling over when I did Blu Tack mock ups.

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John Blanche's original sketch. You can see Kev Adams' version on SoL. I think his job is safe.
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That looks brilliant, didn't realise they did an actual figure, wasn't it one of those bonus sculpts they'd pack in a blister? Look forward to seeing it painted.

I loved the original short story where one sneaks into Inquisitor Kryptmann's office and tries to off him. Brilliant design and concept for a Tyranid.
 
orkwrangler said:
Behold my total lack of sculpting skills.

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In the end I opted for a squig with a lower centre of gravity for my project. The other one kept falling over when I did Blu Tack mock ups.

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John Blanche's original sketch. You can see Kev Adams' version on SoL. I think his job is safe.
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now, that's very interesting... Looking at that sketch, I would have done it completely different to how both you and Kev have interpreted... Mm.. I might give it a good as it's in-human enough to allow 'mistakes' to be hidden up ^_^

I've been trying to do my entry, Got it based coated and started to do bits but then.. just kinda not feeling it.
 
ManicMan said:
I would have done it completely different to how both you and Kev have interpreted...
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I think it is beyond me to do better. I think the most complicated thing I previously sculpted was a scabbard and that's on the back of a model where it is blessedly out of view.

The lore has these beasties shapeshifting as they tear through people, so I'm happy to use that as license to do my own thing. :razz:
 
orkwrangler said:
I've never seen one of these Kev Adams big squigs in person. Going by the blister codes it may have been paired with the spider-like squig. Squig swarms were a unit in the WD145 Tyranid army list.
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I'm always drawn to towards the fringe miniatures for some reason. Like those snotling/grot/squig bonus models you got with space ork nobz. I think the 1st ed tyranid models were my favourites. Your interpretation of whatever it was from the White Dwarf story looks bang on to me.
 
Yep! It's like a difference between spring boarding and plagiarism. Spring boarding has you take the basic idea of something and do something different with it, where plagiarism is just taking a large chunk of something and pretty just copying it.

while doing Homage sculpts is... really blurry on the lines, but using something as a starting point to develop your own thing is a much better 'spring board' approach. In a way, I would say Isaac Asimov's novel "Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain" uses Fantastic Voyage as a spring board (basically.. Asimov did the novelisation of the film as Fantastic Voyage but he was never happy with it, partly cause of how much of the scientific details weren't good and he wasn't able to change it enough for his tastes. and he never felt it was his own cause, it wasn't. It was a Novelisation of a film script written by Harry Kleiner, based on the story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby (which itself was partly inspired by Richard Matheson's "The Shrinking Man". So later on, he had a change to write 'his' version. apart from miniaturized scientists entering a human body, there isn't that much in common. While it isn't the BEST novel ever done (Asimov was best as a short story writer) it's a great novel and really just used the original as a spring board. I think that's a good example of spring board vs plagiarism.

I think some Citadel Miniatures are a bit... boarder line to if they have used the source that 'inspired' them as a spring board or just plagiarism.
 
I spilled some paint on a miniature for the first time in decades. Will see how it looks when the ink dries. Think I'll need to do the eyes at least, but a couple of dabs of black should suffice. Used WarColours Nostalgia '88 paints & inks, and a #2 brush.

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This assassin beastie assembles itself from bits of its victims as it hones in on the Tyranid Hive Mind's target. Will do a write up on the background for the blog.

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Art by Stephen Tappin.
 
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