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Miniatures Sculpting

When I worked for Games Workshop in the nineties, I accumulated quite a collection of metal miniatures of which, even now only about 25% are painted! A selection of these can be viewed on the gallery pages of this site. I have always found the modelling aspect of the war gaming hobby more appealing than the actual gaming and have made a lot of models. These ranged from from fantasy housing to dungeon rooms to vehicles. Back when I was working for GW I created two massive set pieces for Games Day:

• A 10ft x 5ft Epic snow planet-scape. This consisted of the ruins of a massive city and a crashed Hive ship
  
• And an 8ft x 5ft Warhammer 40K snow scene

In February of 2007 it suddenly occurred to me that I could perhaps have a go at sculpting my own. Odd that it should have taken so long for this to surface... but anyway, to the rightis my very first attempt at sculpting (in progress and slightly bigger than life-size - at least on my monitor!).

I have used a two part epoxy putty - Procreate. Most sculptors seem to use something by the apt name of "Green Stuff". The general consensus - at least from what I have found on the web, is that Procreate is a little more forgiving to the amateur, which of course is why I went for it.

The most useful web-links links I've found thus far:

• Cento Workshop
  
• Custom Hobby Forum Item on Anatomy
  
• Reaper Miniatures
  
• Heresy Miniatures Shop - where I got my Procreate from (fast, friendly and efficient service to be recommended)
• Hirst Arts - very finely sculpted scenery (includes fantastic dungeon paraphernalia - walls, doors, floors etc)
• 1ListScupting - an excellent, well used and lively Yahoo Group for all abilities from absolute beginner like me, to expert