Titan's feet part 1

even though my studies have been hard, i still have been steadily keeping at the hobby, even though my usual happy time of painting minis has been at best put aside until weekends, i haven't given up onthe hobby just yet.  hell, i even managed to get a commission in the time i've been away.

by now your mind will probably started to wonder off the post because of my random ramblings, and maybe onto why the title of this post is a little stranger than the rest.  well naturally the series of posts with this title are all about the commission i recieved, which happens to also be my first ever.

enough chit chat, let's get down to hobby.




earlier in the year (can't really remember) i was asked to work on a scenic base for this titan painted by my friend Lazarus.

i happily agreed. considering that nobody has really commissioned me before.  as an added plus, he sent me some wicked parts and the blank base to use as well. yay! no trying to find obscure things on the internet!
anyway after a couple of weeks wait, the parts finally arrived and i could start work on the base.

some of the parts for the top of the base

after looking at the sheer size of the thing and doing an assessment of my cork supply, i quickly concluded that i had nowhere near enough cork to fmake this base, so (after convincing mum to pay) i got some more supplies.

i started out in my usual way, ripping up a piece of cork tile and sticking it onto the block thing on top of the base.  inly in this case, the block thing was a 60 mm diameter piece of solid wood.  sorry laz, but you said you wanted the base sturdy.  have fun pinning anything to that.

the next step was a little dirfferent.  i decided to fit the pieces of tile to the top BEFORE i did anything else. that way, i could shape the tile to the best ot the base, and not have to worry about doing complicated cuts to make the tiles fit on an already completed base.  i also added some cracks, sctatches, and other weathering to make the base look a bit war torn.  it's going to be a centrepiece model.  it needs a little bit of extra detail.

the next step was to make the pillar of dirt.  it's basically the same as part 1 of the basing tutorial, except due to the sheer scale of the base, i was using ripped up pieces of cork sanding block insted of cork tile.  oh yes, that pun was intended by the way.  what too late to call it? fne then *sulks*

unfortunately, that was also the time that uni really started to hit hard with mountains of homework, so the base remains unfinished still. but i plan to change that.  once i finish with this current project (due next week) i am going to do nothing but work on this base. one week of non stop basing coming up! i'm looking foward to sticking my fingers together trying to put the pieces on to the base already.  it's almost as fun as sticking your fingers together with green stuff as you sculpt out the... no!  too much info.  you have to wait for a later post to see the results of that.  maybe if you plead enough i MIGHT consider telling you. then again i'll probably be too busy working on this secerect project to tell you anything anyway.  not that any of you care though.

ah well, it was worth a shot.

until nex...ah i just remembered something!
on a (not so) random subject, look who else got a base made for them (and an arm for that matter too)

now. until next time
   -Claire