Original sculpt Rat King and Traag COMPLETE painted up

[RayH]

Now onto my newest edition of turtle figures Rat King and General Traag! These guys were really fun for me to make. I know i should be making shredder and the foot, obviously, but I love sculpting rock texture and fur, so while i like the characters as well, these were very fun scuplturally. while making shredder still intimadtes me cause of the armor. I'm good at organic things, but armor and robotic things are not my forte for sculpting.















Rat King is an original Sculpt, he used to be the iron-man figure in the ML shield sets. everythings pretty much been sculpted on him. I go into more detail on the sculpting process in my WIP thread. For paint, i was trying to make rat king look like he did in the cartoon, and i realy wanted him very grimey looking. except for the skin tone he's pretty much all hand painted liquitex acrylic, i really went heavy on the drybrushing, i felt it make him look grungy. I also made his eyes red, like the toy, i thought it'd look make him sinister looking, and i thought it would be cool if all his rats had red eyes as well, like there under his control.



I also added something since you saw the WIPS, i decided to give rat king a base, I didnt take a wip picture, but the base is a totally original sculpt, the pipe is cap off something other than that all apoxie sculpt. I killed so much of my apoxie suplly doing this. I'm not a 100% happy with how the rats came out. They kind evolved as i made them. The initial rats i did were very cutsey, but i kept trying to make them more meaner looking as i progressed. Adding all the rats took a long ass time.