Bisons (2 Viewers)

[blaster]

Had a eureka moment and dug up my hoard to locate two bison heads cast in metal from a plastic toy head. Then decided to make more bison heads of differing sizes from other plastic animals.

Why did I do it? Why indeed…..

 

[thebritfarmer]

Looks like the Britains zoo series Bison head

 

[blaster]

It is. However it has a humanoid face, unlike bisons which I see on the internet. The walking bear is a Marx recast and the pony a HK toy. I use these as armatures to resculpt different sizes of bison heads.

 

[blaster]

Sculpted more of the bisons. I thot of doing three diff sized heads to give me sufficient variety maybe for a bison hunt(hint hint). Notice that the faces are sculpted as I want the eyes to look sideways, not frontally. That’s quite a lot of bull…. Hahaha.

 

[blaster]

Sculpted a bit more. Separated the heads from the bodies.
will redo the large head as I tk the eyes are too far apart.

 

[Grey Heron]

Quite impressive sculpting Victor on the Bison heads. Thanks for sharing your progress.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Grey

thx for yr comments. I sculpt empirically. Small areas at a time. Any errors are redone. So it is quite easy.

I carved down the sides of the large bull head and resculpted the eyes.

 

[blaster]

It was not easy to cut the large bull head down to size. This was cast in metal. What I did was to drill multiple holes along the edges and then snipped off the excess parts.
I repositioned the horns and the proportions are now the same as the smaller heads.
I will extend all their snouts a little and then detail these heads.

 

[paxtoysoldier]

very nice step-by-step tutorial, thanks;
Paddy

 

[Grey Heron]

Starting to come together. Thanks Victor for showing your progress.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Paddy and Grey,

thx for yr nice comments. My tutorials are meant for low brow sculpting. Hahahhaa

Here are the lengthened snouts. I think it makes them look more bovine rather than caprine. I’m just an intellectual snob. Hahahaha.

 

[Grey Heron]

Hey Victor, I don't think you could confuse Caprine with Bison even in the facial features. Good work with the sculpting.

Cheers,
Grey

 

[blaster]

Hi Grey,
almost done with the heads.

im just fooling ard with a couple of equus. Historex vs masterbox. Some difference in size. Interesting.

 

[blaster]

Finished the masters. Made moulds and castings. Animating and sculpting the castings now

 

[blaster]

Animating and fixing the poses for the main scene

 

[blaster]

Starting to detail the bisons. Reshaped some of their heads and resculpted some body parts.

 

[blaster]

I’ve undercoated the firs batch of bisons. Also knocked up an Indian and pony from scraps

 

[blaster]

Did some work on the Indian n pony

 

[Horus]

Great work so far Victor, well done :salute::

 

[Grey Heron]

Good work Victor with this ongoing project of yours.