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Nice work! I think everyone knows something about GS that I don't, the stuff that I have is quite old and impossible to sculpt.

I have noticed that if I leave out a ball of yellow and a ball of blue open to the air for a few days, then mix them up, it's much tougher than straight out of the tube. I suppose I should use it up as much as possible so it doesn't dry up on me. I have no idea what the shelf life is.

Looking great!! A very close take on the original!

I should be posting an update soon... 'should...' - I'll get pics up soon. I've added a few more bits to the 'sprues' and channels. I plan to pour some silicone soon.
Work (as in - money, day job) is hammering me (I'm not the first person on Dakka to cite that as a reason for not moving a project along, am I?)

Ohh, you big tease you Ok, we'll wait for 'soon'. Unfortunately, no, you're not the first, why is it that we have to work, dammit this is the 21st century we're living in. when I were a lad I was promised robots would be doing all the work and I be spending my time popping across to Luna and Mars.
Where's my jetpack?

Dear Nurgle.
Awesome. You are an inspiration to those that love greenstuff.

Sometimes when I read about those toiling masses of humanity in the 41st millennium being choked on toxic atmosphere and worked to an early grave I feel a little better about my job


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but still were the hell is my sky car and skintight metalized jump suit

Just to add my two cents. That is very impressive.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the mold works out.

Yeah, in the olds days (and I mean the old days) I'd come home from school on a Friday, after dinner I'd be up there at my desk, painting away, space marines, skeletons, all kinds of little minis, for hours on end, practically the whole weekend. It's almost impossible to even imagine that time now, where with all the stuff that's got to be done, by the time I have the opportunity to sit down and get some work done, I am so exhausted it's just not going to happen. Easier to watch Red Dwarf or Cadfael mysteries or something on DVD. Thank God for the winter though, it'll keep me indoors more.

Happy Halloween everybody! (do they do Halloween in the UK?)

I agree...

School holidays were the best...though we just say and played roleplay for days on end...until being told to get out in the garden, where we'd promptly kick a football around till tea.

Anyway, I have always called it Halloween. Though, it isn't really that big here as we have Bonfire Night next week.

I spent my holidays as a child wandering the woods and fields and riverbanks identifying edible plants. but thats because I'm secretly a hobbit...

Yeah we have Hallowe'en - it's practically a British invention!

Like mano said above, we're much bigger for Bonfire Night, that's the 5th. I always get a little sad on that day, but we still get rat-arsed and set off a bajillion fireworks. Good times.

I spent my holidays identifying inedible plants, and then trying them. Or playing RPGs, or playing on the speccy or the c64, or watching videos till our eyes bled. What I never did was wonder how I'd get on with my hobby stuff when I would still be at work at 18:50

Hey weety you're right, it's not just my jetpack I want, I forgot about the shiny skin tight outfits for women, that or the Starfleet issue mini-skirts.

Ambull, you could try intermingling your hobby time with a dvd of something good you've seen a million times before.


edit: for spelling

Actually - yes, watching something really cool that you've seen a million times is great for painting cos you don't really need to look at the screen

Star Trek outfits were the best. - Yeah, I actually do a healthy diet of books-on-tape (course it's on CD now) whilst putzing at these projects, it's all very therapeutic really.

Hey Tek, Weety, Monkey... Penny for the Guy?

Well, guess you can have this Guy, he's not doing much around here, not sure if I'll take Penny in exchange, not sure I've met her

I tend to listen to music when I paint - stick the mp3 on random so there's a good mix and a few bits of comedy thrown in there - over watching a film, but that's mainly as I don't really want to start moving modelling stuff into the main room. Although that's started to happen as I tend to take pics in there and so theres a few minis lying around now. Occasionally I'll take a portable DVD player into the workroom, but probably only if I was trying to get a certain feeling or inspiration, if that makes any sense.

Heck i paint on a desk in my room with a 42" screen infront of me (connected to my Computer of course[yes i can cruise on dakka using that 42"]) and a ipod dock to my left, i`m pesonally surprised that i can concentrate. Anyway onto the ambulll, as 9it is my first post on this thread let me take a second to say how awsome this ambull is. I must say this is a extremly good first attempt, i`ve tried greenstuff before but have never really had much luck, more of a painter my self. Mabye im ahead of myself here but i wanted to know the colour scheme of the finished model, i`ve seen some interesting colours for ambulls and am intruiged about yours. Please tell me?

I paint in bed with a laptop streaming southpark usually. I've done whole 30 inch canvases lying down many a time. No spillages yet.

So when do you pour your first cast mr ambul?

@ Weety you've just tempted Fate.

@ Ambull Terry Pratchett is good to listen to on tape - funny, witty, deep. Usually read by Nigel Planer or Tony Robinson (two sort of famous British Comedians from the 80s). There are about 40 Audio books...all available abridged or unabridged.

@ Monkeytroll...I want Deathrace 2000!

Weety: You paint in bed!? Frida Kahlo style? I swear I will mold and cast soon, I like this forum so much because there is no excuse for me to put this project aside, it's inspiring to see the demand for updates!

Mano: 'Sort of' famous?! Baldrick ("I have a cunning plan...") and Neil! The Young Ones was very important to my upbringing. I was watching the one with Motorhead just the other night.

As for color scheme I can't decide, my instinct points me towards some earth colors for the body with some points of brighter, louder colors for dynamism (fangs, eyes). Casting allows for some experimentation.

Its music for me, AC/DC will do fine.

Frida Kahlo? well my painting in bed is probably the result of chronic rather than polio!

Not quite old enough to have seen the young ones but I caught the re-runs. Some one said my first flat-share after leaving home reminded them of the young ones. Bubbling mushroom brew on the stove. damp patches so evolved that they can hold a conversation, pet chinchilla bouncing around and a bunch of hippies and punks dossing on my floor

Getting back into it. I finished watching the old series 'The Sandbaggers' and can now devote more evening time to the completion of this project. To recap: the present goal is to reproduce the sculpt in resin.

The channels and sprues are sufficient enough to start with, although I ALWAYS wind up cutting more into the rubber after it's cured. this is a decent starting point and first casts are always trial runs to show where more venting is needed.


I should mention that this is not how to do it properly. This is how I am doing it, without vacuum chamber (which really is necessary when doing silicone molds). This is a real punk effort and we'll see how it works. Maybe it'll end up over in Skalk Bloodaxe's failed-thread (there's confidence for you!).

If you ever buy silicone and resin, always mark the date on the bottles and cans when you get them. This way you know if it's getting too old to use. Old materials cause problems. For example, the silicone I'm using here is over four years old. That's nasty - chunky, very viscous, like a paste more than the creamy pourable stuff it wants to be. But I can cheat - and add a thinner to it. This does weaken the mold, but gives a little more life to old stuff such as this. Look at how lumpy this is, don't try this at home: use fresh silicone.


Chunky old silicone with catalyst being added:


More soon, I promise, I want this thing completed so I can move on a build a six foot titan or something (kidding). You can see in one of the pics that I started applying rubber to the mold. I'll get those pics up soon.

good luck my fingers are crossed for you

Nope, that's it. Your schedule has been set, next it's a full squad of zoats, then a 6-foot titan

Looking forward to seeing the first cast.

Now I'll really start embarrassing myself. When one doesn't have a vac-chamber, one can deal with detailed areas by gingerly applying a thing layer of silicone first, and leaving the bulk of it till later.

Here I drip small bits onto the crucial areas, mushing it around to get as much contact as possible. "A li'l dab'll do ya"


More mushing:


and a light layer is developed to encompass the important parts. One has to be really careful though because air will tend to get trapped everywhere


More absurdity soon. We'll see if these crackpot methods work.

Second layer started - the 'bulk' of the mold.

I think I see what you are doing here - Its sort off cheating and the old crafts lecturers wouldn't approve (yes we did have some resin and silicone experts in uni) but the important thing is the final result and the ease of achieving it so I will hold my breath and blow on my lucky rabbits foot.

I was surfing the gallery and came across... an ambul??? Excellent thread, read it from start to finish, really impressed w/ your skills. Hoping your cast comes out for you. Will be following this thread, it's pretty cool. And if for whatever reason you don't finish it... I know of another thread you can post it on.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:And if for whatever reason you don't finish it... I know of another thread you can post it on.

Ha ha! You're collecting souls for your thread! Now Dakka has a 'Valhalla' where things can go when they die. It's kind of comforting.
But this Frankenstein's monster must live. I've never posted progress on a project before, and because I've done so here I feel like it's got to be finished.