Roman Lappat Patreon Challenge

Not sure if I ever mentioned, but I’m member of the Roman Lappat Patreon and he posts quarterly Art improvement challenge. This time the topic is to create a miniature bust.

Challenge Accepted - Combat Arena Ransacked

As I participated in the last 2 challenges, I didn't plan to join this time as I haven’t been inspired.

Well then I cleaned up my boardgame stacks and stumbled over “Combat Arena - Lair of the beast” and opened the box.

I never played it, but the minis are amazing. While looking at them, I remembered the challenge and chose the Inquisitor.

Miniature Taddeus the Purifier completely build

There is an Amazon artwork of Taddeus, standing arrogantly with the book held high and the servo skull over the shoulder.

Well then - goodbye game, goodbye Taddeus lower half.

The plan for the Warhammer 40k inquisitor

Cut in 2 part at his hip
Remove the servo skull and add at the back
Remove right arm - maybe repose
Remove left arm and turn around book as of he is reading

and the last part will require some sculpting to rescue the cloak and I’m quite afraid About that.

First, let's cut.

Miniature Taddeus the Purifier cut in pieces

I’ve even tried to remove the head and make it more looking up, but that didn’t work. Let's hope the scratches are not visible.

For the plinth I found an old yarn roll. Always valuable to store garbage.

FRANKENSTEIN

Now it's Frankenstein time! Blue Tag and check the poses.

I chose to leave the right arm. For a bust we have this freedom and otherwise it would look too overloaded for me.

Miniature Taddeus the purifier rebuild with blue taf

The first items were glued ( scarf broke a few minutes later again ) and added a wire to rebuild the cloak

Miniature Taddeus the purifier with paper lip as arm armature

Miniature Taddeus the purifier with wireframe sideview

Sculpt it like a ... Real sculptor

First, I covered the frame with a bit of green stuff like an arm. Not beautiful, it will be covered later anyway.

Taddeus the purifier with a bad sculpted arm

And then a flat square is cut and shaped like mad. Took about 2 hours. The dryer the green stuff got the easier it could be shaped as it got stiffer. That's a lesson learned. After drying, I sanded with fine grid of K600 and cleaned some parts with a very sharp knife ( fresh blade).