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It's done*!
You're currently looking at my take on the Protoss Immortal, sculpted only too appropriately in the material of the immortal greek masters, which according to my work-in-progress blogs (here and here) took me some 87 hours of mostly power tool work, distributed over the past year (actually, my very VERY first blog entry on this project was exactly a year and a day ago). Summarizing, it was a metric fuckload of work and I'm SO happy it's finally done*.
The original block of white sculptor's marble (statuario venato) from Carrara in Italy (probably the most famous source of sculpting marble worldwide) was about 15x15x15 cm, weighing in at about 9 kilograms (cost me only like 10 €, since it was a leftover piece, had it lying in my basement for like four years until I figured what to do with it). Haven't weighed the finalized piece yet, but should be around 2 kg, maybe a bit less. The front of the "skirt" is about as wide as a euro coin, all maximum dimensions (w/h/d) are in the 10-15 cm range, didn't remember to put a size reference next to it for the photo.
"Power-tool work" sounds like you don't have to do much physically, but as I found out (the hard way), it's quite the opposite... after all, someone has to provide the leverage for the power tools to do anything! Still, I don't want to know how long this beast would have taken with purely manual tools. Marble is such an (expletive) hard stone, I sure as hell will return to softer alabasters and soap stone variants after this (as I was once told, mandatory) excursion into the material of the old classics. Michelangelo sure had a stable full of (probably fairly chiseled, if you pardon the pun) apprentices taking care of the "simple" stuff, otherwise I don't see how any single person would be able to produce his complete works in a single lifetime.
If you think this is cool, leave a comment and visit my older project blogs: Ultralisk (some history and a DIY-tutorial included), Baneling. You might comment on my ideas for a Banshee (cloaked = semi-translucent alabaster). Visit my page on deviantArt for more stuff.
But now for the pretty pics!
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*done: Sculpting, that is. Whatever scratches are still there remain there - this guy has been in battle, after all! He's been broken and, ahem, mended! There's also some administrative work left (mounting on a socket) and the question of which parts I'll polish to maximum smoothness (currently leaning towards guns, spine, possibly the racing stripes on the shoulders and some parts in the head/torso area).
 
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Dude, this is pristine.
Great attention to detail.
Thanks for sharing this [:
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It's done!
Really beautiful, thanks for sharing all of these updates 
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I wonder if you could get blizz to send you a really high detail 3d model so you can "perfect" this, its pretty cool :D
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Would be even better if it were more detailed
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Italy12246 Posts
Fuck yeah
Soultrain for life
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this is really amazing stuff :D
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that gona be coloured? Looks sick
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I remember your work-in-progress blogs. This looks great!
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lol you dont color a marble sculpture
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Very awesome work. Can you add a picture of the sculpture with something next to it for more perspective on the size?
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Amazing as always dude. I love looking at your work .
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In 500 years, some anthropologist/art historian is going to geek out over your sculpture as indicative of our culture.
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Amazing.
Protoss lends itself to marble
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Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
It's really amazing, but why is he sitting on a stump? Or is this a giant poo?
Joking aside, would it collapse without it?
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This is so cool! On a side note, why don't you try carving him a face too ?
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On December 20 2013 21:39 HornyHerring wrote:
It's really amazing, but why is he sitting on a stump? Or is this a giant poo?
Joking aside, would it collapse without it?
Yep, would collapse in all likelihood. The legs are way too thin to support its weight. Strictly speaking, I didn't TRY it, but I'm fairly sure. Plus, the pointy feet would crumble. I was considering mounting it on a metal rod for support (more classy), but then I'd have to drill a hole into the base of the finished sculpture, and typical mountings just BARELY fit into the amount of space I can work with (the "skirt"). Fairly error-prone. Might still do it, not sure yet. Maybe I find smaller mountings.
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On December 20 2013 22:15 yuuG wrote:
This is so cool! On a side note, why don't you try carving him a face too ?
The head is fairly small already, a face would likely end up looking dumb. Plus, the actual immortal model has no face, just this golden pin-type head.
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The head is fairly small already, a face would likely end up looking dumb. Plus, the actual immortal model has no face, just this golden pin-type head.
Could have sworn they had faces from the in game WoL portrait. Might be tripping though. Just a thought, this is already awesome.
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On December 21 2013 19:08 yuuG wrote:Show nested quote +The head is fairly small already, a face would likely end up looking dumb. Plus, the actual immortal model has no face, just this golden pin-type head. Could have sworn they had faces from the in game WoL portrait. Might be tripping though. Just a thought, this is already awesome.
yeah as much of a face as BW dragoons though
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I love the amount of passion that people have to put into projects like these. Great job
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On December 21 2013 19:08 yuuG wrote:Show nested quote +The head is fairly small already, a face would likely end up looking dumb. Plus, the actual immortal model has no face, just this golden pin-type head. Could have sworn they had faces from the in game WoL portrait. Might be tripping though. Just a thought, this is already awesome.
Fair enough, they might well have one on the portrait screen... I always just looked at the model in the world editor. MMmmhh...
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The only real face an immortal has is the 'eye-slit' across the 'head' of the walker. The portrait is of the pilot, who is suspended in bluegoo inside the walker.
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You finished it, and did a great job! Nice.
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How much to buy it? 
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This is awesome, good job.
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SoCal, USA3955 Posts
That's pretty cool. Seeing the tree stump thing on the bottom makes me think of Greek statues. XD
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Did you ask SC2John if you have the rights to do a sculpture of him ? 
It is very good. This should be spotlighted.
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1. This is very cool.
Noob questions inc:
2. Where does one get white marble for crafting exactly and what do you use to craft it? lmao
3. The white marble used there looks quite different from the white marble I'm used to--kitchen counter tops mostly. In the case of the counter top it usually looks sort of streaky-rocky (a description fit for Dickens) with more of a 'conglomerate' look as opposed to this totally uniform-homogeneous sugary white. Is this just the type of marble you used or a treatment problem or something else that a noob like me is too ignorant to know?
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Wow, it looks fantastic! I don't know the first thing about sculpting but Carrara/Luna marble sounds like a pain to work with. Makes you wonder how they ever finished the Column of Trajan!
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This is amazing, really nice detail, thanks for this!
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On December 23 2013 09:05 idscy wrote:
1. This is very cool.
Thanks, much appreciated.
2. Where does one get white marble for crafting exactly and what do you use to craft it? lmao
3. The white marble used there looks quite different from the white marble I'm used to--kitchen counter tops mostly. In the case of the counter top it usually looks sort of streaky-rocky (a description fit for Dickens) with more of a 'conglomerate' look as opposed to this totally uniform-homogeneous sugary white. Is this just the type of marble you used or a treatment problem or something else that a noob like me is too ignorant to know?
2. There are specialized shops that sell stone, in our glorious age of the internet I usually order online. I'm not sure about shops in the US, but you should be able to find a place relatively quickly. They usually have both the stones and the tools you use to work them. As an example, I often order from this site (in german, but you should be able to navigate it via the pictures).
3. It's just the type of stone, or rather where it was mined. "Marble" is everything with a defined chemical composition, the color (which can range from white over light pink and blue to black), swirls, hardness and all other detailed properties depend on the minerals that naturally occur in the area where the marble in mined (the stone never is 100% pure). Check this list for some examples.
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Marbelous! (: (seriously, i've never tried sculpting anything, if we don't count wood figurines, but sculpting marble seems hard)
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That's just... cool
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On December 22 2013 12:03 PineapplePizza wrote:
The only real face an immortal has is the 'eye-slit' across the 'head' of the walker. The portrait is of the pilot, who is suspended in bluegoo inside the walker.
Solution: hollow out the inside and fill it with blue goo.
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