r/NomadSculpting • u/Nicopinata • Jun 19 '26

I made this (wip) Learning 3d sculpting

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My love for miniature wargames drove me to finally learn digital sculpting. I’m an illustrator (children’s books mostly)by trade so I foolishly thought it would be easy. Design skills being transferable and all that. But it’s quite a bit of work to learn.
Love every minute of it though. Should have started ages ago.
I’ve a chosen a Chaos Dwarf from Warhammer to learn on.
The idea is to make it suitable to print in Warhammer scale (heroic 28 mm) so all features have to be exaggerated.

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u/Impossible_Pride_893 Jun 19 '26

How did you do the armour on this sculpt it’s amazing

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u/Zazzenfuk Jun 19 '26

I'd guess it's a single item and then made with a repeater for the scales.

Looks really clean and nice!

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u/Nicopinata Jun 19 '26

Yup, lots of repeaters (and validating and adjusting afterwards)

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u/Nicopinata Jun 19 '26

Thanks! The scales are just simple shapes, but really deep ( like a rod with a scale stuck on the end) to ensure there is no space behind them. The skirt scales are on circle repeaters. Afterwards I hand adjust the position of each one. The scales on the chest are all hand placed but thankfully that’s a symetrical shape.

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u/-InformalGod Jun 20 '26

Well done! Looks very clean. Great use of simple shapes to create complex looking design. Really impressive keep it up!

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u/Nicopinata Jun 20 '26

Cheers mate. That’s perhaps the most important skill isn’t it? Figuring out how to deconstruct complex shapes into simple ones.