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| 20 October 2000 | page first published |
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The Hydra is dead; long live the Hydra...
Hurrah, 'tis finally finished. Today basically involved finishing off a load of small jobs. Filling in a few gaps here and there where shoulders meet the bodies and such like.
The only major job dealt with the juncture where the three upper torsos meet the main body. I had already tried this once, and thankfully it went better this time. I kept it simple with just a few folds of flesh twisting up to the upper bodies. Ok, so it doesn't look anatomically correct, but trying to get a live Hydra to pose for you is not an easy task, their rates are extortionate, though I blame their agents myself!
Before it could go off to be cast, I needed to do one job on the arms. When I cut the model up I decided to leave the arms connected to the spears, thus reducing the overall number of pieces. However, to make sure that these cast up properly without twisting, I needed to put a small tag between the shoulders. This will prevent them from twisting out of shape and it also allowed me to label them left and right to help when assembling the model. It is not going to be an easy model to assemble, but then I think that most people who collect miniatures are sculptors and model-makers in their own right, so it shouldn't prove too much of a problem.
Finally I put the whole thing together. I have to say it is an impressive beasty destined to dominate the VOID battlefields. Then again, it is supposed to be a counterpart to the Tiger APC, so I guess it had to be big!
Well, I guess it's goodbye for now then (sniff, sniff…). It feels kinda weird to know that so many people have been following the creation of the Hydra. I'm sure you will have learned a good deal from the pictures. Sculpting is as much about technique as it is about artistic skill, so look at the way I have handled things, adapt my methods to suit yourself, then add them to your sculpting vocabulary.
If on the other hand you prefer just to collect and paint minis, then I hope you like the Hydra and maybe you can post a picture of it on the web when you get round to painting it. Whatever the case, I will catch you later cos I'm off to work on a tracked APC...
takes some South Africans and turns them into urban bad guys.