| SirFjodin | 19 Aug 2012 7:39 p.m. PST |
HI This creature IS NOT FINISHED! I still needs lots of scales to be added and some final touches on it face.
Just want to share some work in progress with you. This is a Swamper subspecies, but covered in light scale armor. For moving this creature uses its tentacles and muscles on its belly. This is slow creature who eats plants and some small shelled creatures. This creature lives in swamps, and uses its scales for protection from surface creatures. If its under attack it can dig itself in mud leaveing only armored back above mud level.
Here are some original Swamper photos link
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 MrHarold  | 19 Aug 2012 8:13 p.m. PST |
looking awesome! love the new version |
| ancientsgamer | 19 Aug 2012 8:48 p.m. PST |
V2 is really nice. V1 might make a less mature monster? |
| AVAMANGO | 19 Aug 2012 9:40 p.m. PST |
Yup i am defiantly buying a few of these as soon as they go on sale, lets just hope that they do reach the production stage, some really great looking work well done… |
| SirFjodin | 19 Aug 2012 10:05 p.m. PST |
Thanx for replies! This is not a new version, but a new species. Armored creature is slow and more like turtle. It can live only in shallow water. It have big eyes so it can se in dirty swamp water.
But original Swamper is more agile and can live on land near the waterline like mudskippers. quote////////////
lets just hope that they do reach the production stage.
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Dont worry :) Whey are going into 15mm.co.uk SHM range
15mm.co.uk/SHM_Range.htm
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| earthad | 19 Aug 2012 10:15 p.m. PST |
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| palaeoemrus | 20 Aug 2012 12:59 a.m. PST |
Looks like a baby Ur-Quan! |
| TheCount | 20 Aug 2012 2:22 a.m. PST |
Cool stuff Sir Fjodin, swamp beasties are among my favourites. And I'm a Muddy Mudskipper fan too. Cheers, TC. |
| SirFjodin | 20 Aug 2012 3:27 a.m. PST |
Baby Ur-Quan… I would like to see someone to sculpt some Star Control 2 aliens….. Like these
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| Eli Arndt | 20 Aug 2012 4:59 a.m. PST |
The new version definitely has a lot more going on and in a good way. All those scales are tricky to get right and to make look right. I have yet to try anything like that. Are you adding each one separately? -Eli |
| SirFjodin | 20 Aug 2012 5:06 a.m. PST |
Separately…each scale… with needle and magnifying goggles… Very masochistic job :) PS. Guy on above photo is NOT me. Just random pic from Google. |
| Cacique Caribe | 20 Aug 2012 9:19 a.m. PST |
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| SirFjodin | 25 Aug 2012 8:44 p.m. PST |
More progress. Please bear in mind that even if creature looks big on photo, its a small crature. Its base is 13 mm long.
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| Cacique Caribe | 25 Aug 2012 9:05 p.m. PST |
SirFjodin, Very cool! By the way, how are the toothy alien slugs coming along? I can't find the thread right now, but they reminded me a lot of the slug aliens in the film "Dreamcatcher":
Thanks, Dan |
| AVAMANGO | 25 Aug 2012 10:15 p.m. PST |
That looks simply amazing i am trying to cut back on buying miniatures at the moment but that thought went right out of the window when i saw this latest update of the scaly swamper. |
| SirFjodin | 26 Aug 2012 5:14 a.m. PST |
2 AVAMANGO
THANX!!!!!!!!! 2 Cacique Caribe
I will make other variants of molusca after I finish armored swamper and send these guys to 15mm.co.uk
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| Eli Arndt | 26 Aug 2012 7:07 a.m. PST |
Love this armored swamp bug. Great figure. All that work is paying off in a great texture. I can see the snazzy painters out there picking out each scale and giving it a complex color pattern like a Gila Monster. -Eli |
| SirFjodin | 31 Aug 2012 8:36 p.m. PST |
Today I completely finished scaling one side and there is only 1/4 of another side left. I also cuted miniature base to minimum.
And againt here are size comparison photo with true 15mm miniature on 18mm washer. Nick
15mmworld.blogspot.com |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Aug 2012 10:25 p.m. PST |
SirFjodin, That's the one I meant! The one on the far right:
TMP link I want to buy lots of those (but in 2 or 3 poses)! Dan |
| SirFjodin | 01 Sep 2012 12:33 a.m. PST |
I am glad that you like the third model on the photo above and I am planning to make more of these :) |
| AVAMANGO | 01 Sep 2012 12:54 a.m. PST |
Is it just me or can anyone else smell cajan cooking, Swamper creole anyone its classed as a bit of a delicacy in the Pangia system… |
| SirFjodin | 01 Sep 2012 1:13 a.m. PST |
Swampers have very tasty meat and can be raised as livestock by farmers. Typical Swamper farm should look close to these rice fields, but with fences:
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