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Offline Highlandbevan

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First time sculpting with green stuff
« on: December 15, 2017, 07:52:44 PM »
In between other activities I'm building up a high medieval army. I had some spare horses and green stuff, so I had a go at sculpting some knights bodies and legs on paper clips.

https://thirtyyears15mm.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/sculpting-with-green-stuff/

It won't win any prizes but they will blend in and it was surprisingly fun. I'd recommend it if you have odd spaces to fill, or if you wanted to make casualty figures.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: First time sculpting with green stuff
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2017, 08:02:38 PM »
You can only get better!
I am going to build a wargames army, a big beautiful wargames army, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

2019 Painting Challenge :
figures bought: 500+
figures painted: 57
9 vehicles painted
4 terrain pieces scratchbuilt

Offline nic-e

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Re: First time sculpting with green stuff
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2017, 08:04:56 PM »

far better than my first greenstuff work.  :)

I'd suggest experimenting with a few different tools. Alot of people dive in with metal sculpting tools, find it all a bit fiddly and quit. Try using pins/silicone clay shapers/cocktail sticks ect until you find a handful of things you feel comfortable using.

never trust a horse, they make a commitment to shoes that no animal should make.

http://mystarikum.blogspot.co.uk/

Offline Highlandbevan

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Re: First time sculpting with green stuff
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2017, 07:54:59 PM »


Providing the link works, this shows the final effect. They are a bit chunkier than the models I based them on, but overall I'm happy and it looks better than 4 empty saddles.

My next foray with green stuff will be filling in missing horse tails.

Full story here:
https://thirtyyears15mm.wordpress.com/

 

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