Aepycamelus cast!

Here are my Aepycamelus, now cast, and standing a lofty 60mm or so tall..  When I have time, I need to make reins and harness, and sculpt some riders.  This will not be an easy task; I am to sculpting as Morokanth are to hitch-hiking.  

Slow sculpting

Last night I finished some aepycamelus greens, for a long-delayed fantasy project.

The aepycamelus is an extinct llama-like creature.  These are a lofty 65mm tall.

Below are the greens; I started these almost 10 years ago, and last worked on them back in 2009!

Aepycamelus Greens II

Here are the Aepycamelus greens I'm working on.  The main change since the last post is that I've started to flesh the legs out.  I also felt that the one on theleft was too long in the body, so I sawed a slice out of him, and stuck him back together!  This was fun and surprisingly successful.  I'm happier with him, now.

I am, however, experiencing a crisis of confidence over these greens.  Whilst I think I will be able to make them look reasonably good, they are, however, a bit big for my purposes, at 65mm tall; I really wish I'd made them 50mm tall, instead...  they are really 40mm scale rather than 28mm.  However I'm learning a lot, technically, as I go along with them, so I think that I will finish them (at least crudely) and then start over with a smaller armature.

Aepycamelus greens

I have very much enjoyed sculpting dead nellie, this week, and so have decided to revive a long-abandoned project.  I've dug some old greens out of my drawer and, after some useful advice from TimeLine Barry, have reshaped the legs and bases to make them easier to cast.  The models are only "skeletons" at the moment.

They will hopefully, in spare moments over Xmas, become aepycamelus , an extinct breed of American cameloids who developed long necks to feed off leaves.  I have a plan for them...