Something Different from the Normal Routine
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Ok so I've been meaning to do one of these for a while and figured tonight was a great night to get started so here it is.
Starting out with the armature... Not really the best one but it's sturdy and will do the job for what I need.
Starting out with the armature... Not really the best one but it's sturdy and will do the job for what I need.
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Keep it up.
I wasn't able to get a hold of one of the Celebration Europe Exclusive Busts so I decided to make my own to go with my collection but I wanted to pose him differently and give him his rifle like in the full body shot.
Lame joke aside, I like seeing this, cant wait to see the progress, keep it up!
Anyway, if I can make a suggestion, the base of the torso on your reference figure is a lot wider then what you have going on. Just wanted to point it out before you get into details. Keep going!
Ok time to get back to work on this....
Looks like your model is coming along quite well.
Right now my sculpt is sitting a bit to let harden a little.
When everything is sculpted out to where I want it I will bake it and then etch in or carve all the hard little detail with my tools or a small dremel tip.
If I mess up I can cover it back up with more clay and re do it all.
I also like the super sculpey because it comes in translucent and you can just get one of the smaller sculpey packs for the color and mix them.
For every box of super sculpey (1 lb) I use 1 small thing of the colored stuff. Right now I'm using gray...
I'll get a shot up of all my materials and tools in a bit.
Any more questions just feel free to ask away.
if you rush into detail you will regrtet it,
I think the neck looks long right now because i made it that way on purpose... I am going to cut the head off when done so I can cast molds.
I measured on the gentle giant bust since the head comes off and just added some distance to where I want to cut.
Also included a modified bust-up to just show a quick mock up of how the final piece may look.
lookin pretty clean, you gonna do the hands and head seperate and then just stick them on?
Ok Adam I was holding off on the head for a bit so I could get the final body to where I wanted it.
As for how i'm gonna do the hands I mentioned it to you earlier Gavin and instead of typing all that again here is a pic.
By doing it this way I can make a few easy variations with hands and different arm sculpts for different poses.
I am slow with updates because I will let my sculpt sit close to a window for a day or two and i'll turn it so that each side gets sun light. It wont bake the clay but it will make it a bit firmer so you can get harder edges.
Also when doing stuff like wrinkles if you use a pin to draw out the wrinkles and then sprinkle baby powder over the sculpture and use a paint brush to blend the wrinkles together and smooth them a little it will create a nice effect and look like skin.
The sculpy liquid stuff is pretty pricy (so I've heard. I haven't actually seen it on sale), but you can just pick up some rubbing alcohol form a chemist which works just as well and may in fact be exactly the same chemical.
Yeah I'll take some pics of my tools tonight an up load a shot.
I really need to get myself some more tools. Currently I have one very chunky rake, a brush and a pair of tweezers. Could you give us a run down on what you've got in your toolbox, Jesse?
The sculpy liquid stuff is pretty pricy (so I've heard. I haven't actually seen it on sale), but you can just pick up some rubbing alcohol form a chemist which works just as well and may in fact be exactly the same chemical.
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Here are some of my supplies and tools I use. My digi cam batt died when I tried to take one of my actual clay tools. I'll get to those tomorrow.
btw, a cars whiper blade? wtfawk?
MUST.. HAVE.. UPDATE!
btw, a cars whiper blade? wtfawk?
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cars wiper blade. That is being used for something else haha. When building props, models, sculpts I try to use anything possible to save time sculpting that will work and give me solid results.
Some of the details were partially destroyed during the transit from Maine to Chicago despite me packing this guy nice and neatly in it's own special box surrounded by soft fluffy goodness...ok anyways.
Here is the updates.
Both arms are removed now to clean the undersides up and add the more fine detail.
I am going to bake the bust tomorrow so that I can add the sharper details that would be hard to do with a soft piece of clay in my hands and since you can rebake super sculpey it's no big deal.
So here is the progress shot.
I was sent a GG Ep 2 clone body and pieces to play with since that is what a lot of customizers are doing. So i figured I would try it out too.
I started on the mold making tonight using a product from smooth on. It's brushable.
Its really coming along.
I was asking another customizer how she got hers to look so damn close to the gg product and she laughed at me and said it's cause she re-cast it and then sculpted over that to add the other pieces.
So I was sent the Ep 2 Clone Body and a few other pieces. I already have the Ep 3 body and pieces along with a few commanders.
I am still working on my hand sculpted one but I wanted to give this a shot and paint up a few customs that can easily fit into my collection or anyone elses collection.
Good to see you're working at Midway! When did you get that job?
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just wanted to add more to this so it didn't sound like a trolling statement.
I have a unit of 12 chaos warriors that need the mark of Nurgle on their shields. I bought the 12 nurgle icons to glue onto 12 chaos shields. Some people would say it's perfectly ok to just do one shield and cast the other 11 (although most miniature forums would close my thread and threaten the banhammer for saying that), but someone giving me their bits to copy is a no-no in my book.
I have made trades with other people for my customs because they like the way they look and the changes to their own collections.
I'm not gonna go to comic con and set up a booth and sell these.
As for if it's right or not who knows. I guess that is a matter of your own perspective and opinion.
In this matter I am using the GG bust as a base mesh to customize to how I see fit.
But it doesn't change that storm trooper is looking ace