Guvnor Kulo WIP

Kulos' coming along....slowly. This is my first GS sculpting experience and I have to tell you I'm a little daunted. I suppose I should have started with something small, maybe making a finger or a weapon head instead? Bitten off more than I can chew trying to sculpt up this much, but either way, I'm having fun playing with the GS, so even if I fuck it up good I will have learnt something.

Ok, pic's first, talk later:

Initial gut sculpt with old belt buckle reattached.

Head fattening in progress.

Padlock put back on too.

Side on you can see how fat I tried to make him....dead sexy :)

Now the arms;

Ogre Kingdom arm's blue-tacked in place.

I used a modern Ork bolt pistol, but I scraped off the Ork "logo".

I'm planning on molding his shoulders into his body, over his jacket......if that makes any sense ;)

Not sure about the nipples. I might remove them or try & re sculpt them....dunno yet?

I'll be mounting the arms higher at the shoulder.

Here's a couple of Suspensors as well.

Ok, now the talky bit, where should I begin? Let's start with his Gut shall we.

This was done in a few stages. I'd heard that some sculptors wait until each section has fully cured before moving onto the next stage, for fear of running their previous work. And seeing as this was the first time I'd used GS I decided to do the same, but I was surprised at how long it took to cure. It took an age for it to solidify enough so that I could move onto the next bit. I ended up doing one bit a day, so it's taken me almost a week to get it to the stage your seeing it at now.

I'm also trying to include all the equipment Kulo has listed in his description as well. Two of which are Rogue Trader Suspensors, this fatso has two of them on his person to help offset his weight problem. The thing is is that I've never actually seen a picture of one, so I asked the question over on the Oldhammer forum. So after getting some help on there I settled on using some small discs to represent them. After rummaging through my bits box I found a couple of model car instrument dials. I also decided to attach them where most of weight would be..... His gut :)

About the arm's, I bought some Ogre Kingdoms one's to use for Kulo, but when I got hold of them they looked far too chunky. The alternative was to use standard Ork arms, which are way too muscular. I would have had to GS the hell out of'em to fatten them up enough. So, I went back to using the old Ogre arms, but with the forearms reduced in length & the shoulders cut back. They'll still require quite a bit of greenstuffing but I think they'll look better in the end than trying to use the Ork arms...time will tell :)

I'm also thinking of giving him a T-shirt coz his gut looks a little plain, but I'm not sure yet. I suppose it's hard to tell how it's going to look once he's all painted up. The green & metallic surface don't help in giving me a complete picture.



So as it stands I've gotta attach his arms, bulk them out & smooth them onto his body, make a Neuro Disruptor and give him some detailed work.....quite a bit to go.

I'm kinda on the fence with how he's gunna turn out. It's still too hard to tell at this stage for me. What do you guys think of my efforts so far? Worthy? Rubbish? Misguided? I'd be interested to know what you think.


Cheerio :)