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Title: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: elysium64 on October 07, 2012, 10:05:47 AM: Due to my current living circumstances I have had to seriously downsize my hobby activities, I don't even currently have a space for a painting area. So I have decided to do something that I have wanted to try for a long time........ Sculpting my own figures, I was hoping the good folks here could direct me in the direction of the following resources:
Suppliers of sculpting materials, tools (particularly interested in the rubber headed tools)
Sculpting tutorials
Armatures, with production rights
recommendation for best sculpting material ( I have only ever used Green stuff) I would prefer cold cure rather than something that requires baking, unless the advantages of that material far outweigh the hassle of baking.
Thanks
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: gamer Mac on October 07, 2012, 10:17:31 AM: Ebob minatures sells alot of the stuff you are after.
Antenocities workshop has a good supply of those things as well.
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: Cherno on October 07, 2012, 10:29:39 AM: Heresy has some stuff as dwell, IRRC, Hasslefree do amatures.
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: OSHIROmodels on October 07, 2012, 10:31:17 AM: Colin's pretty much got it but for sculpting material try Pro-Create, I have and I like it :)

cheers

James
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: Kalle on October 08, 2012, 02:56:12 PM: http://www.masq-mini.com/ has everything you need, from sculpting putty to freeze spray.

Regards/
Kalle
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: Major_Gilbear on October 08, 2012, 03:08:18 PM: If you know the name/brands of what you want (putty and sculpting tools especially) check Amazon: I got a decently-priced pack of colour shapers (the rubber-tipped sculpting tools) from there with free shipping! Good value is not to be sniffed at. ;)
Title: Re: Looking for supplier of sculpting materials,tools and armatures
Post by: Daeothar on October 08, 2012, 03:43:15 PM: Quote from: jimbibbly on October 07, 2012, 10:31:17 AM
try Pro-Create
Absolutely! I tried it and never looked back at Green Stuff...

And for the Rolls Royce under the sculpting tools, consider dishing out for Tiranti's 'SG Stainless Steel Dental Tool'. Unfortunately, the individual pictures on the site seem to be down for the moment, but if you scroll down and enlarge the picture of the entire set, you can see the SG for yourself. basically, it's all that GW's sculpting tool wants to be. Like comparing a low-end saloon car to it's thoroughbred Touring car Championship cousin; they might basically look alike, but driving it makes all the difference, trust me.

Seriously; it is awesome, and GW's very similar tool pales in comparisson.

http://www.tiranti.co.uk/subdivision_product_list.asp?Content=Dental+Tools&Subcategory=47&Subdivision= (http://www.tiranti.co.uk/subdivision_product_list.asp?Content=Dental+Tools&Subcategory=47&Subdivision=)

And I never bothered with dollies before; I just twisted paperclip wire together till I had the basic shape and pose I was going for. Then I bulked it out with Green Stuff, and went to work on the actual sculpt with ProCreate. I find dollies to be too expensive for what they deliver. Although a couple at first might come in handy to get a feel for the anatomy etc...