Continuing the discussion from Battleborn Fancraft <3:
Sooooo, to get the time arround until my Pre-ordered disc arrives here I craft badass things. The dear @Cobble had the idea to make Attikus weird skull necklaces - that creepy mix of pirate skull, a Behelite from Berserk and the Orbs from DMC-series…
Aaaaand here you go!
My handmade version
Here the finished work
Its completely handsculpted from polymerclay, even the silver “screws” are sculpted. The skulls are safely attached on strong black cords.It then was painted by me with Citadel Colors.
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HOW TO DO IT YOURSELF
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Tools of Trade
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red and silver Polymerclay (FIMO, Premo, Sculpey, all work equally good.)
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Citadel Colors: Runefang Steel, Mephiston Red/Khorne Red/ Troll Slayer Orange, Abaddon Black, Ceramite White, Karak Stone
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A brush with rounded tip as tool for sculpting. Sculptingtools with round ball tips are perfect, but brush backends work too.
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Knife & needle/pin as sculptingtools.
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Brushes for painting.
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Black cord/band
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Resin/Copolymer glue to attach the sulls to the cords.
On the picture you see the already sculpted & pre-baked “screws” and the little key thats dangling with on the necklace. I sculpted those prior from silver polymerclay. This way you can stick the already hardened screws into the finished skulls, without doing to much damage.
START
Take the red clay and make 2 equal big balls for the skulls + two equal long & thick rolls for the bones.
Now start to enlonger one side of the ball for the future “jaw”. It takes some patience but after 5min. of sculpting the clay with your fingers (no tool needed yet!) it shouls look like this:
It gets tricky now! Get your brush or ballpointed tool to start the mouth/nose/whatever the hell that opening is o.O
After the act both skulls should look like that:
Use the same brushtip/ballpoint sculptingtool to sculpt the eye holes. Sculpt/bore them roughly with a bigger round, then use a smaller rounded tool for more detailed work.
Its not easy to get the eyeholes symmetrically, so don´t sweat it if they look a bit off. Without detailwork it will look like this:
Take the needle or a smaller ballpoint-tool to sculpt details. Don´t worry there are´nt many details^^ Its mostly the “eyebrows” to make the skulls look evil.
Left one has “evil yebrows” the right one does not.
When the eye-section is okay and your satisfied how the skulls look so far you can attach/bore in the “screws”.
You can use an actual metal spring in fitting size or sculpt them yourself as I did.
For that roll out a long tin roll of silverclay and wind it up carefully into a spiral. let the very end point upwards - this part you´ll jam into the skull. Pre-bake it (10min at 110°CELSIUS) to they are hard enough to work with.
Then bore them into the ready sculpted, yet unbaked skulls. After baking you can still add glue to attach them more safe to the skulls.
As you see on the picture I already started the bones, which will get behind the skulls. To attach them without making the pendants even thicker, we´ll cut them and take a middle part away
Place each bones end on the fittinf place left & right from a skull and attach them by pushing them against the skull a bit. After baking the whole thing they should be attached safely. (unbaked clayparts are adhesive towards each other and will bond through baking process)
Now the bioth skulls are ready to be put into the oven - 15-20min 110°CELSIUS.
Not more heat or more time, it could be that the pre-baked silver clayparts could burn and the gas released from smouldering polymerclay is very toxic!!!
GET YOUR PAINTS READY!
After bake it will look a tad bit darker.
Let the skulls cool down and start with a priming layer of Citadel paints, Mephiston Red /Khorne Red.
After the base colour has dried, mix some dark (dried-blood-like) black-red with Mephiston ed & Abbadon Black. Paint the inside of the mouths/eyeholes with it.
Now we can add some darker shades arround. Just mix some more pure red onto the dark-red to match a middle colorhue. After its dried it will appaer brown-black.
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After the darker shades have dried fully, mix a light red with Mephiston Red & Ceramite White. Carefully paint on the first tier of highlights.
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Mix in more white into your light-red until its nearly pink. Trust me here! Add the 2nd tier of highlights.
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And 3rd tier of highlights - add a tad more white to your pinkish-red to paint the almost white highlights.
Now I just painted the “screws” with a dark steel metallic paint & I added and glued on the cords.
DONE!!!
Hope you like them!
If someone as any questions regarding the crafting process or an idea for future Battleborn-crafts just drop a comment!
PS: I may upload more/different photos made on a better background, we´ll see^^
It really was fun. Plus: It looks far better than I thought I could do^^
