A Sculpted Mousling Warrior
Posted: July 16th, 2018, 5:24 am
I've developed an interest in mouslings made by Dark Heaven.
Sadly the ones I'm primarily interested are fighters like the thief or the knight pictured above. Since these particular pieces aren't sold separately, if I wanted more fighters, I'd have to buy the set and I'd wind up with a lot of bards.
Since I've been playing around with sculpting, I decided to turn my hand to sculpting a warrior mouse. I started off with a wire figure padded with aluminum foil with a cork base.
I then sculpted clay over the wire and foil. Although I was originally going for a helmet similar to the mousling knight, I wound up sculpting a face. Since I now have some new sculpting tools, I decided to make rows of holes to simulate the appearance of chain mail. Here is the clay figure before I baked it in the oven.
Here is the completed product.
One interesting thing about the shield ... I made it using the plastic lid of some candy sprinkles for baked goods. I was originally going to recycle it but as I was about to throw it away, I noticed a raised triangle with the #4 printed on the side of the lid. If I had to guess, I'd say that this was an in-house lid number to differentiate it from lids made for other products ... but of course, I don't know for sure.
Since the triangle was just the right size for a mousling's shield, I literally cut it out, glued it on, and painted it.
I think this figure turned out quite well. It only took me three hours to make from start to finish. This included the time needed for painting and flocking.
I will have to see what other mouslings I can produce. One nice thing about sculpting my own figures is that each will be a one-of-a-kind figurine. Instead of having a dozen armored mousling knights with identical poses (and a dozen bards that I really didn't want), I can now (eventually) craft additional mouslings each with a unique pose.
Sadly the ones I'm primarily interested are fighters like the thief or the knight pictured above. Since these particular pieces aren't sold separately, if I wanted more fighters, I'd have to buy the set and I'd wind up with a lot of bards.
Since I've been playing around with sculpting, I decided to turn my hand to sculpting a warrior mouse. I started off with a wire figure padded with aluminum foil with a cork base.
I then sculpted clay over the wire and foil. Although I was originally going for a helmet similar to the mousling knight, I wound up sculpting a face. Since I now have some new sculpting tools, I decided to make rows of holes to simulate the appearance of chain mail. Here is the clay figure before I baked it in the oven.
Here is the completed product.
One interesting thing about the shield ... I made it using the plastic lid of some candy sprinkles for baked goods. I was originally going to recycle it but as I was about to throw it away, I noticed a raised triangle with the #4 printed on the side of the lid. If I had to guess, I'd say that this was an in-house lid number to differentiate it from lids made for other products ... but of course, I don't know for sure.
Since the triangle was just the right size for a mousling's shield, I literally cut it out, glued it on, and painted it.
I think this figure turned out quite well. It only took me three hours to make from start to finish. This included the time needed for painting and flocking.
I will have to see what other mouslings I can produce. One nice thing about sculpting my own figures is that each will be a one-of-a-kind figurine. Instead of having a dozen armored mousling knights with identical poses (and a dozen bards that I really didn't want), I can now (eventually) craft additional mouslings each with a unique pose.