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The Race Around The Block

"The Making Of"

by Gregory Privat

 

More pictures will soon be available in the WIP galery. I concentrate here on picture of the unfinished block. Compare with for exemple the Tentacles 200! Article to see how it have been modified, especially the color of the Block, wich received many different and thin layers of color paint, and the marsh which vegetation have been competelly removed and made again with some aquarium plants. I let you discover the other differences...





The original drawing, which started the project, the monday after Tentacles 2007.


another drawing, made during the project.



The Block is made of foam with a coat of filling plaster.



It s a pretty simple construction. MAde with 2 plates of Foam : 120x60cm




The plate closing the top have later been removed to host the electrical system that make some sky bulls fly around the Block.




Peoples sometime ask me how I find the time to do my games : I just have slaves.









The marsh plants were originally looking like that.



But I didn t like the effect, and finally replaced those plants with aquarium ones : about those, paint them if you want them to looks less "plastic-like".



The trees are all made of fimo : metal wire squeleton, fimo and then natural fiber to make the "things' that are on the branchs (if someone want to translate that sentence in proper english, he s welcome).



Tentacles are fimo too, and the water is GW water.




A general view of the marsh.




First drawing of the tents decorations



The tents are made of (ink drinking paper) and pva glue, on a metal wire structure. Pretty easy and fast to make.



The tents are being decorated with the symbols from the concept drawing, telling stories about the god's time or the recent history of Prax.



On the right side of that one you can see, as an exemple, Waha making the Good Canal to clean the Block's base... All the drawing are first made in white and then painted in color.




The rocky area wasnt red in the begining. I changed that later to add some contrast.






A général view of the game, at a very early stage.







I made many miniatures, and converted close to all the other for this game.



I made the 3 big bosses (the Devil's Hand, The Eternal Battle and the Devil's Stomach) with the same material : metal wire structure and some Fimo.



Here you can see the Devil's Hand metal wire structure.



From different directions.






and now with the Fimo paste.




It have been made in several steps, with a "cooking" stage between each sculpting one to not break what was done previously.



Some WW1 germans in the background, they have no link with the hand.









With the same technic, the avatar of Chaos.






My "paint display" in the background, and the avatar in foreground.




A general view of the original board