Scratchbuild 300 Spartans vignete

Red1,

Well done. Makes me want to go watch the movie 300 again! I do not know if it is the lighting and the translation to digital media but are the cloaks that bright in real life or more of a crimson?  No matter, well done.

Steve

Awesome work, dude....I agree that maybe some variations among the men's fleshtones would have made the layout even a more interesting, but your work is impeccable...is this your entire vignette or are you planning on doing a series of different scenes from the movie?  

If I were you I would maybe also modify some of the figs to get more different poses, etc...I know that the three came from the same casting, but you could always bend joints slightly, etc. so they don't all look too much alike...

Thanks guys!

@ajlafleche

Yup, I would try painting another set of this guys in a different skintone like you suggested. Since I was trying oils for the first time, I'm still figuring out the drying time and blending techniques. Thought I read on one of the post that oils would turn a shade darker when it fully dries. Is that true? I have to wait I guess.

@SteveA

Thanks Steve. I 've seen a couple of variations of the cloak colours. Based on historical records, the Spartans wore red cloak to symbolise the colour of blood. I wanted to use citadel blood angels red(too bright), than switched to cadmium red oils(too dark) than changed my mind and switched to it scarlet lake. I forgot to mention too that it was very tricky when using red oils cause hightlighting it might turn everything to pink. I learned that the hard way. I'll try crimson next time.

@Manstein's revenge

Variations in skintones just did not cross my mind man. You definitely gave some ideas. I'm abit conservative with my first task with oils cause it can be daunting painting a few figures at a time.  

My plan is to  try recreate another scene with differing variations with more conversions and additions. I did try making a few different poses with another figure but it just did not fit this early idea I had. I might just convert the figure to become a babarian since it looks like like one without the cloak. But I definitely make a few more scenarios from the movie this year.

I try my best to keep em coming guys!

Cheers 

M. Sharif

Red1,

Great work!  Now, are you going to add 297 more figures to complete 300 Spartans?

@Steve A.

Thanks man. 

@m1garand   

Thanks man, now I'm planning to create a diorama with some Spartan action. 297 more with help from CGI perhaps(even  the movie cheated).  Definitely some more "Hot Gates" action.

@Sam      

I would definiitely luv to recreate some more of the battle scenes from the movie. My brother also suggested the fight scene with the immortals. 297 Spartans against 10000 immortals, hey that's more than a handful. The shield tossing scene is one of the memorable moments of the show. That's another scene I like to make. Hope to share more stuff soon. Thanks.

Cheers to all,

M. Sharif

Thanks agentg. Will try the yellow  on my next batch of Spartans.

Peace

M.Sharif

That's a great idea vespa boy!

I will surely try exactly dat method next. Many thanks.

Hi everyone,

There's  not much changes to the figures but I added some foliage and an immortal mask to add more interest to the vignete. Finished it just in time for submission for SFOTM at Historica Forma.

Cheers

M.Sharif

Just saw this post today.  All I can say is woooow.  I bet you could sell that to someone on ebay for major $$$$.  Now did I get it correct that you sculpted the whole thing (esp. the figs)?

Grizz

Thanks for the compliment. Yes, the whole vignete was scratchbuild(from the base to the figures and mask etc.) I kinda like to build stuff I can't find on the market.

 I might just auction this off after contest day.

Cheers

M. Sharif

Really a superior piece of work! Tremendous skill and execution; a real work of art!

Yu should contact a mold maker or a company and try to get it manufactured for the market after contacting the studios who produced the movie! You could make some BIG BUCKS!

And I'll take 10% for the idea! LOL!

Thanks to the doog!

That should inspire and motivate me to make higher quality stuff in the future! U can b my Quality Control guy man.

If I can make big bucks, what is 10% right? LOL

Cheers