MammaHyena Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 "The Crawling City is a city-state on the Amber Steppes of Ghur. It is built on the back of the Great Worm Shu'gohl.[1] High aloft the Amber Steppes the city has weathered the tide of Chaos that have flowed around it on the Steppes. As the other Great Worms it is ever-moving and isolated, Shu'gohl is unique in so that it leaves a poisonous trail after it. The ground go black and anyone coming in contact with it wither, eaten from the inside by black worms." (https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Crawling_City) Introduction Hi everyone & welcome to my sculpture & painting diary which will centered around the amber steepes of Ghur & the metropolis which is the Crawling City. If you decide to follow this thread you will (hopefully) witness my process of creating a CoS-army based on the Crawling CIty, the nomads of Vurm-Tai & the Black Marsh Barony. The primary purpose of this thread & by extension this army is to improve my skills at using "greenstuff" & getting myself accostumed to Age of Sigmar its rules & setting. I will hopefully update once per week with either new sculpts, conversions or concept art. To kickstart this journey of mine I decided to start with something bigger & easier to sculpt. Thus the idea of using giant turtles as Steam Tanks where born. I read a snippet of lore which referenced that giant turtles the size of castles where to be found in the Black Marsh Barony so why not start there? They could act as auxillary & if people do not let me use them as placeholders for Steam Tanks then they atleast helped me honing my skills as a sculptor. The progress so far I wanted a stable skeleton to work with. Some sort of scaffold to the epoxy so that the portions & positioning of the model where sort of correct. For this I used iron wire. I drilled several holes in one of my empty "snusdosa" (for those that do not snus is a form of nicotine pouch common in Sweden) & by threading the iron wire through the "snusdosa" I managed to attach the "body" (also consisting of iron wire) to its future shell/carapace. Until next time I will begin sculpting the general form of the turtle as well as constructing a rudimentary cannon for the howdah as well as search the internet for bitz to convert into crewmembers. Quick notes: - English is not my primary language & although I am a teacher (in Swedish & History) it has been several years since I wrote anything of note in English. Pardon my spelling errors & grammatical blunders. - Let me know what you think of this project. Is it worth the effort? Take care! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ggom Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Any endeavor to grow a skill is worth it in my mind! Looking forward to how you tackle this. I can’t sculpt to save my life and have always been curious what the road looks like on that path. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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