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DUDE THESE ARE AWESOME!!!

I've only just started playing around with Green Stuff, so running across this thread was great. Thanks for the tips!

best article i have found on dakka completely love it but must ask where do you get your green stuff i get mine off of ebay

Thanks for the help.

Great tutorial, I found it useful and easy to follow. I've also had some recent experience with Greenstuff sculpting and converting, I created a YouTube video tutorial and posted it on dakka not so long ago. Here's the original post along with some tips and tricks I'd like to share with you:

Using a piece of clear acrylic as your work surface. You can get this at most craft stores or even at your local DIY home improvement stores. It's a nice smooth surface that can be lubricated easily and is portable. I use a smaller square that is slicked to flatten out my green stuff into nice smooth, thin sheets.

A clay scraping blade, a thin , very sharp blade I use to lift gs off my work surface and make nice clean straight cuts.

Alternatives for lubrication: Canola, sunflower or safflower oil work well. I also use a product called Coolslip sold from a jewelry making site (cooltools.com) that works for me. I usually apply a little to my acrylic surface so it doesn't stick

Rubber clay shapers are a great way to expand your tool arsenal.

Super glue helps to tack Green stuff to your model. Its especially helpful when the gs starts to firm up and your trying to tack on a strap or section of a robe.

Some good alternatives to milliput for understructures I've found are Aves Studios Apoxy putties. I use Fixit sculpt which dries even harder than milliput and can also be mixed with GS for hard edge applications. And if your in a hurry and don't want to wait a day for milliput to harden try using the Faststeel epoxy putties found in Hardware stores. It hardens rock hard in 5 minutes but it has only about a 1 or 2 minute working time so you have to move fast with it. This is the same stuff sold as Instant Putty and Stick Putty. I just used it last night to sculpt the robe on this Crusader I'm converting from a Scout/Cadian:

elliot the black templar wrote:best article i have found on dakka completely love it but must ask where do you get your green stuff i get mine off of ebay

This probably varies fronm country to country; but in Australia I get mine from a store called back to base-ix that have a website and an ebay presence. ~110 grams (36 inches) for $14.95 free postage in Aus.

America, somewhere like maelstromgames could be cheaper or the like.

I've also heard cardstock can substitute the milliput first stage on the tabard, although I am yet to test this for myself.

Just in that small tutorial I have learned so much thank you and you make it look so easy . I will use these techniques the next time I try to sculpt a robe . Im sure I will have improved greatly because of your tips . Thank you and I hope to see more soon .

This is so nicely done. Thank you for sharing.

Edit, wrong thread.

Very cool, been needing a tutorial like this for a while.

I've just started with sculpting so this rely helps

That's the most impressive tutorial I've ever seen. I'm going to give it a try!

Great stuff

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I just recently got into sculpting, so these tutorials will definitely be helpful!

Subscribed!

Thanks for posting this. Just what I was looking for!
I'll be trying this out on some Cadian men to try and make Commissars.

hey all on dakka dakka and to you too whatwhat i was on the internet searching for using green stuff and came across this and was hooked on the awesomeness of your work, and also would like to share a link with you guys about green stuff were you can buy 36 inches for £6.35 and from the UK too so here is the link...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310236159605?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

its not my ebay no, but come to think of it it would be a good way to boost my sales lol but no sadly it isnt i thought for any of you out there wanting lots of green stuff for cheap then there you go.
unless its an error were he/she meant 3.6 inches, nooooooooooooo i hope not but placed an order so will let you chaps and chap-etts know when it arrives
also to go with it a neat cheap set of sculp tools too. (link can be posted)

Enjoy and once again awesome straight to the point advice whatwhat subscribed and hope there is more to follow.

PS sorry about all the orkmoticons but love using all types of moticons

Pretty amazing stuff, I cant wait to get up to this level

YT da painter boy wrote:
hey all on dakka dakka and to you too whatwhat i was on the internet searching for using green stuff and came across this and was hooked on the awesomeness of your work, and also would like to share a link with you guys about green stuff were you can buy 36 inches for £6.35 and from the UK too so here is the link...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310236159605?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

in reply to my post were i would keep you posted about my order of green stuff. well it was fantastic when that parcel came in the post and opened it up. there were 36 and a quarter inches.
so i mixed some and made a stick figure ready for sculpting and was also amazed how it set. i will definitely buy more when get the chance as it mixed well and set well + with some two part green stuff you get a core were the two colors meet, well i didn't it was like really fantastic and beat the scraps i had left from years ago, ere's a vid ~8
on second thoughts scrap the vid, well i mite edit this and put one in or a link hmmmmmmmm

Great.

Necro! But thanks man, I would never have found this otherwise

 elliot the black templar wrote:
best article i have found on dakka completely love it but must ask where do you get your green stuff i get mine off of ebay

Thanks elliot. Yes ebay too.