Anonymouse:
Hi all,
My greenstuff-skills (although improving) aren’t quite as good as they should be. I especially have troubles sculpting my BfSP-handgunners guns into proper blunderbusses (blunderbussii?).
I want to give them all a unique look, by using greenstuff (no bits, no pieces and no thumbtack-heads: I like the individual, handcrafted idea each blunderbuss carries) but I am having trouble shaping the lumps in the first place. The GS will not properly adhere, and when it does, I can only shape it quite lopsided :s
Since my cam is broken and I am too broke to buy a new one, pics cannot be delivered at this time, unfortunately. Trust me when I say the one result I have so far looks like my BB is sprouting a carbuncle.
I have seen Snotlings BB and cried a bit (who didn’t?) as well as many other examples: since I am not a big fan of the buckler-approach (which works fine, but does not give me the individual look I’m going for), I am wondering if there is a recommended way on sculpting the mouths of the BB? With this I mean: with what shapes should I start, followed by which other shapes?
All help is appreciated.
Anonymouse:
@ Mods: I don’t know why this thread got opened twice. Apologies.
phierlihy:
You’re probably going to get a dozen different ways to sculpt Anihilators. And there is no “wrong” way since every army is custom. Here’s mine…
On GW sprues, on every frame there are circular nubs sticking up from thte molding process. I clip them off, sand then or file them down so they are thin, and then glue them directly onto the end of the BFSP Handgunner’s gun barrel. Once it is dry I take a bit of green stuff and model the cone so the gun barrel changes from its skinny normal barrel to the wide plastic bit I just glued on. Once that’s dry, add on ONE tiny bit (like a scope or an aiming sight). On the next one, try adding something else. Work your way up in complexity and eventually you’ll have a custom unit.
And yes, we all cried a little at Snotling’s unit shakes fist at sky :hashut
Anonymouse:
No, I know about there not being a ‘wrong’ way: I meant the ‘I’ve-been-trying-to-do-it-my-way-and-it-turned-out-crappy’-way which I have done so far.
The nubs are a great idea; just found out the fit pretty well 
Beats my way of trying to build the muzzle from 1 blob of GS.
kornchild:
hi i used the tiny shields that come with the dwarf warriors box set the shield i also used for my obsidian guards.you just need to file of the icony thats on the front glue it to the barrels of the BfSp dwarf hand gunners and fill in the gap with GS.
like this:
i dont know if this is what you wanted but it will give you a new idea to work with.
cheers.
Anonymouse:
Hey Kornchild: thank you for posting this, much appreciated
I have seen this technique a few times before and though they fit well, unfortunately it’s not quite what I’m looking for. The shield-technique sadly doesn’t allow me to individualize the shapes and sizes to my liking (yes, i know: I’m picky)
However, I really do like the way your heads are positioned on the body: nice and anatomically more in line with ‘reality’: how much of the heads did you have to carve out? They remind me of old-skool marauder-Dwarves, which already makes them awesome in my book 
Baggronor:
The GS will not properly adhere, and when it does, I can only shape it quite lopsided
Put a bit of wire into the stock of the gun and build a blob of GS onto it t make a rough shape. Leave it to dry, then apply the final GS over the top: that should at least solve the problem of getting the GS to stick to the fig.
I would steer clear of attempting to sculpt the round nozzles, its virtually impossible to get something close enough to circular by hand, doubly so if you want any uniformity within the unit. I would suggest using another plain part from something and then sculpting designs onto that instead. I used the bells from the Zombie sprue (helps if you have an undead army ofc). I also found the DE spearmen musician's trumpet to be oddly suitable too (again, it helps if you have far too many of these boxed sets).
Anonymouse:
Thanks mate, much obliged
Blackheart:
Made a handfull of Chaos dwarf blunderbusses a few weeks ago. I made a pressmould of the bottom part of a push pin and used O-rings for the muzzles. I really liked the way they turned out:)[attachment=2111][attachment=2112]
kornchild:
@anonymouse use the mold line as a gide.
sorry for the late reply.
nitroglysarine:
I tried to sculpt my own, but it didn’t like the outcome.
I aslo tried using bits of tube to so it, didn’t work again.
In the end I used the mantic blunderbussmen and they thankfully worked, otherwise i’d have been a bit light on my fire power.
