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Sculptor of gods, monsters, and mortals - in miniature, life-size, and larger; thingsnstuff ©J. Brumby unless noted otherwise; commissions available, in theory. Find me sneaking around at www.snuurg.com or https://linktr.ee/snuurg. he/him.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Jun 15
Ok; two years or so ago, got drafted into a new place of work on the ask of creating a scene for a Lego set - of Rivendell, no less - so, starting from a very basic sketch based (wrongly) on a hex, things began to be begindled...
The Lego Lord of the Rings Rivendell kit, or set, or whatever the terminology is; a very intricate and complicated build which thankfully (or maybe unfortunately) was already assembled for me to make plans around. The first extremely basic sketch of the scene I was intending to create, a literal minute-scribble showing (more or less) a river, a couple of build-levels, and the location of the Lego-set at the top, This whole drawing was approximately an inch and a bit across, though the concept was broadened out by scribbled notes relating to materials needed, design-element queries, and concept-notes. The first refinement of the initial sketch, starting to pick out a more detailed notion of what I'm gonna be trying to achieve - mostly for the sake of the employer at this stage just to show 'em that I'm not just winging it from the first sketch, even though I totally was. More notes and ideas aplenty. I was envisioning a fair bit of tree-work at first, I hadn'y actually seen the kit at this point so wasn't aware that it had its own Lego-trees included, for which adding more realistic ones probably wasn't going to gel very well. Sketch three, with more refinement, more notes, and so on - still at this point designed for a hex-shaped base - which, though it was quite nifty concept-wise, was gonna be a bit more of a git to build a case for later on.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 8d
*one of a few, rather than such a definitive 'the' :)
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 8d
Hyukyukyuk!
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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · Sep 6
Hyaenodons are coming to the shop later this year - one set from many we're remastering from Otherworld minis' retired collections. Sculpts by @snuurg.bsky.social now returned home!
two model hyaenodons on a walk for their stupid mental health in a woodlands surrounding.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 8d
Philth. :p
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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 28d
Gobogeg, the Moon-Ladder, was a last-minute addon we made for the original Cthulhu Wars game, intended by Sandy P as the ultimate Great Old One but designed by Rich Luong and @snuurg.bsky.social to look somewhat more...intimate?
gigantic ribbed worm-like space god critter with a flared, armoured head something like a mushroom with eyes, surrounded by scattered chunks of rock as it explodes from the earth's crust. unpainted bare resin casting of the same model. left 3/4 view of the bare resin model.
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Andy Hemming @andyhemming.bsky.social · 26d
My version.

It’s minis like this that have cemented my love for @snuurg.bsky.social as a sculptor. I think they are lovely models to paint.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 8d
cheers Andy - sooner or later I might actually sculpt something again. Hopefully sooner :/
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 8d
- yup, pretty sure I've got 'em all still, think I've still got the actual 'liths that I made to mould from, too. Haven't got the mould of the main site but I do have the last cast that I took from it, that's got all the indents to map out where everything goes...
a model and a faux-bronze cast of the model, of the site of Stonehenge, both set within circular bases. The model, and three other discs showing previous iterations of the site, were made for the Stonehenge Visitor Centre.
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hey it's all the minis we've cast and painted from the KS campaign so far! Backdrop by @handiworkgames.bsky.social available in this project, terrain scratch built by @berlintuesday.bsky.social , minis by us - sculpted by Alan Marsh, shown painted by John Morris and @berlintuesday.bsky.social
some reallly cool women of the resistance figures all painted, on a rubbley terrain in front of a ruined city backdrop
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Sep 6
Ok you need these ladies in your life - during WW2 they risked (and many lost) their lives fighting fascism. Their stories are incredible, and it's been an honour to research them and make 28mm versions of them. You can collect, paint and/or play with them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...
poster for women of ww2: resistance KS on now, with Simone Segouin and Eva Klovstad minis - sculpted by Alan Marsh and painted up by John Morris. Backdrops by John Hodgson
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Sep 8
I made a video showing off all the backdrops from the new @handiworkgames.bsky.social you can tell I am not a video person by day. But you can see how cool they look so job done!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gT...
New Backdrops for Photographing your WW2 Tabletop & Wargaming Miniatures (so easy to use)
YouTube video by Bad Squiddo Games
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Sep 8
Last 48 hours and I am nose deep in reading the translated memoirs of Hedda Lundh to see if there's an anecdote to get the perfect mini, and if not - just learn a lot more about her. Herself and Else Marie Pade designs will be public tomorrow!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...
Women of WW2: Resistance (Hand Sculpted & Cast)
Top Quality 28mm Pewter Miniatures for WW2 Historical & Pulp Gaming & Painting - with Hand Painted Backdrop Book
www.kickstarter.com
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Sep 4
(- by other contractors, I suppose I ought to add! - many a sour grape has been spat out since at not getting to do ours).
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Sep 4
Maidstone borough or whomever ultimately ponied up 40 grand a coupla years or so ago, for a miniature bronze one outside the train station, it's about 6 foot tall :/
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Sep 4
oh there's more stuff besides, but those are the most vividly etched in memory; pretty sure there's half a gorilla-mould from a 'spooky' shaker-maker set too, plus either or both the chest and head, or the arm with a space gun, from an alien critter Ian brought me back from a trip to Brittany :)
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Sep 3
...there's a box, somewhere, that's got the front fork and wheel in it; also a star-spangled door and bonnet, plus one tyre and a ripcord, from my stock car smash up set; also, possibly, the torso and a leg off the monster from that Frankenstein game I had, plus the crank for raising the table... :)
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Aug 27
AND WE'RE LIVE

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...
Women of WW2: Resistance (Hand Sculpted & Cast)
Top Quality 28mm Pewter Miniatures for WW2 Historical & Pulp Gaming & Painting
www.kickstarter.com
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 28
cheers - turned out alright, all things considered!
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 28
ta muchly - not bad for a load of old sand and cement, eh? :)
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 28
- thanks, glad you think so :) But yeah, main memory of these was hefting the blummin' things about, hehe! These were the first of these casts that I painted I think but I guess I've always painted sculpted stuff one way or another so I suppose it's just a matter of practice to get the look. Ta!
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
them owls have infiltrated my typewriter!
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
...the mo turned out to be twoo weeks, but there y'go.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
wasn't expecting Judge Death to join the conversation.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
ah, an anciente artifacte from my olde-dayes experiments in concrete-ornament-making! Here's a few slightly more involved suchlikes from the pictorial histories:
a birdbath, cast in concrete and painted in realistic colours, depicting a peregrine falcon hunting a pair of hiding mice around the trunk of a tree. a concrete-cast tree-styled birdbath with a family of little owls roosting around it. a fountain water-feature with a pair of otters (one hidden behind the central tree-trunk structure) standing on pebbles, with a captured fish, and with a wood-effect well beneath to hold the water for the pump to make use of. The whole thing is painted in realistic colours.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
- though this does at least mean I get to play with the workshop's new paint-mixing machine and get a bit of an idea how it works:
a paint-mixing machine and paint-shaking cabinet, branded by 'Creative Resins'.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
...back on building air-purifiers by maybe the end of this next week, a quick step back into filling in on spraying duties again though for the next coupla days or so, these are something to do with jewellery/gem-display, 400-and-some of the little sods to do the colouring-in on:
about sixty or so small cylinders monted on sticks in preparation for spraying; they're just over an inch or 25 millimetres in diameter, and I guess just shy of three inches tall. more of the cylinders, maybe at least a hundred, now fully sprayed up in a sort of terracotta colour.
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · Aug 25
- except for these three that got a bit boo-boo'd - there tends to be a bit of shifting as the glue goes off around the neck-stuff, and now and again the heads can end up crooked or a bit too far away from the body to allow the model to work as intended; 3/50 ain't bad though - rip out and re-do!
pic showing three of the head-and-torso models being slightly 'adjusted' by ripping out the neck-attachments, using a special ripping-bit as inserted into the drill to the right of the image; things sometimes go wrong, just like in real life.
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