Lappet-faced Vulture

Finally I finished him - he's been sitting around unpainted for a while with no legs. But I managed to make some feet for him and painted him yesterday. I did try Phil's technique with the feet, but it didn't work for me. So I made some out of Super Sculpey clay, baked them in the oven and it worked out quite well. He looks better in real life
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Excellent work H, you managed to give it much more details than I thought it could be done

Beautiful! Awesome detail on the head and feet and feathers and... oh, everything really!

Thanks Robert and Sumo - he was fun to make

Congratulations Harriet on your Vulture, it looks really nice and well done.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Alejandro

He is gorgeous and not too big either!

Harriet, again a wonderful model, very finely detailed

The feet are excellent, I never saw in real life your other birds but I think you imrpve a lot your skills on feet making.


Not only the feet are excellent of course

Harriet! This vulture is amazing!! Your skills are getting better and better. Great details, colours, everything in this work is excellent! Congratulations

@atabini wrote:

Congratulations Harriet on your Vulture, it looks really nice and well done.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Alejandro

@Wildheart wrote:

He is gorgeous and not too big either!

@Kikimalou wrote:

Harriet, again a wonderful model, very finely detailed

The feet are excellent, I never saw in real life your other birds but I think you imrpve a lot your skills on feet making.


Not only the feet are excellent of course

@ana wrote:

Harriet! This vulture is amazing!! Your skills are getting better and better. Great details, colours, everything in this work is excellent! Congratulations

Thank you very much, Alejandro, Mihnea, Christophe and Anna! I'm glad you like it

Harriet, your vulture is excellent details and colors.
You work with amazing speed and accomplishments are getting better.
One day I see all your creations on a single photo if possible

Ooooh beautiful!! I love it :)

@lucky luke wrote:

Harriet, your vulture is excellent details and colors.
You work with amazing speed and accomplishments are getting better.
One day I see all your creations on a single photo if possible

Thank you Luc I'm afraid I won't be able to take a picture of all my models as most of them are with other collectors now. I still have all the birds though

@SyLoBe wrote:

Ooooh beautiful!! I love it :)

Thank you Sylvia

Another wonderful sculpture Harriet, what a great choice of species as well. If you are looking for species to sculpt a king vulture would be a great choice, they are by far the most colorful of the New World vulture species.

@Philter4 wrote:

Another wonderful sculpture Harriet, what a great choice of species as well. If you are looking for species to sculpt a king vulture would be a great choice, they are by far the most colorful of the New World vulture species.

Thanks Phil - wow the King Vulture is amazing. I don't think I've ever heard of it before

With such a wonderfully detailed figure I died of fright, now I'm nothing but a carcass waiting for a vulture! Congratulations!

@Roger wrote:

With such a wonderfully detailed figure I died of fright, now I'm nothing but a carcass waiting for a vulture! Congratulations!

Thank you Roger

@lucky luke wrote:

Harriet, your vulture is excellent details and colors.
You work with amazing speed and accomplishments are getting better.
One day I see all your creations on a single photo if possible

Here's a picture of the sculptures I do have
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Haha! Yes, what Roger says!

Great job Harriet! I'm jealous of your talent!

-Kristie

Izzy wrote:

Haha! Yes, what Roger says!

Great job Harriet! I'm jealous of your talent!

-Kristie

Thank you Kristie

A very expressive model and very well done Harriet!!!

@Yurumi wrote:

A very expressive model and very well done Harriet!!!

Thank you Ralf

Your vulture looks amazing. Such great details. I love seeing all your animals together.

Golly ! How did I miss this fantastic bird

Harriet, it is a fabulous figuere, - I just don`t know how you can make so much detail and then still it looks...hmm..how to say it ..so right ! And so easy, even if it is not !

Many of the brands would be really much better off with you as a designer

Now, you say you still have the birds, - please, please, could we see a picture of those all together, - I remember a tucan, pelican ....

Thank you so much Amy and Susanne
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I must say, the vulture is my favorite

Harriet
Congratulations, I love your creations they are fantastic.
Thank you for having posted an image of your models;; THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I admire the skill with which you perform particularly downers?
I think a real puzzle to position the legs??
Panther, Sable Antelope, there was also a Zebra and a fenec ... congratulations and we continue to dream Thank you.

Harriet you have done it again, great job. The paintjob is amazing keep up the great work. I can't wait to see your next animal.

Happy sculpting.
Joe

Wonderful to see your birds, and the jaguar, and a Pygmy Antilope, - I have not see that one before .

Not to boast ( or only a little ) but to show more of your works, here is my Harriet-collection

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Tha quality of the picture is not so good, - it seems my camera is not good at morning light

@skysthelimit wrote:

I must say, the vulture is my favorite

@lucky luke wrote:

Harriet
Congratulations, I love your creations they are fantastic.
Thank you for having posted an image of your models;; THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I admire the skill with which you perform particularly downers?
I think a real puzzle to position the legs??
Panther, Sable Antelope, there was also a Zebra and a fenec ... congratulations and we continue to dream Thank you.

@Joe wrote:

Harriet you have done it again, great job. The paintjob is amazing keep up the great work. I can't wait to see your next animal.

Happy sculpting.
Joe

Thank you Robert, Luc, Joe and Susanne

@Luc, yes I do find it hard making legs with that clay - but I have another clay which I will use in future for larger animals like antelopes.
I don't quite understand what you mean by downers, sorry

@Robert, thanks for putting it into my head to make one - I enjoyed it

@Joe, thank you! I love the painting part the most

Susanne, thanks for your picture, it's nice seeing them all together. It would be really fun to see Shawn's ones in one picture too.

@HKHollinstone wrote:

@Robert, thanks for putting it into my head to make one - I enjoyed it

No problem, I will get some more ideas

@skysthelimit wrote:

@HKHollinstone wrote:

@Robert, thanks for putting it into my head to make one - I enjoyed it

No problem, I will get some more ideas

The vulture looks like a grumpy old guy, but that is how some vultures exactly look like!
This is maybe your best model so far, but you made many very good models!
I saw this improvement in talented sculptors before with Ana, and i just can't wait to see more of you in the future.
You made a great bird, which is nowhere to be seen in the modelworld i think...
Go on like this Harriet, you are going to belong to the best in a short time!
When i just look at the models that Susanne bought from you, they are all grewat, with a kind of softness, like you take your pictures...