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Necessity is the mother of invention...



Ghidorah

Amazing!

I feel sorry that the turtle pie will be visiting you shortly.

Faux Pas wrote:I feel sorry that the turtle pie will be visiting you shortly.

I'm not sure what that means, but it made me laugh all the same.



Ghidorah

Here's a huge tip for working with greenstuff: Use carmex, or some kind of petroleum jelly. Seriously. Coat the greenstuff in it, and coat your hands in it. This helps so much with smoothing out greenstuff (which seems to be a problem...I can see fingerprints in your work fairly easily). Once you're done sculpting and the model has hardened completely, you can remove the carmex with dish soap (nothing else really gets it off of the model, and leaving it on might create problems with priming).

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Wow, I feel like the biggest friggin idiot in the world. I seriously did not think that was a lamp switch. I thought it was a strange stompa, or something. I'm friggin stupid, all apologies.

thats like omg x2 noob work. look at the fingerprints.

reminds me of those horrible 2 am mighty putty commercials
good idea Ghidorah

Chrysaor686 wrote:Here's a huge tip for working with greenstuff: Use carmex, or some kind of petroleum jelly. Seriously. Coat the greenstuff in it, and coat your hands in it. This helps so much with smoothing out greenstuff (which seems to be a problem...I can see fingerprints in your work fairly easily). Once you're done sculpting and the model has hardened completely, you can remove the carmex with dish soap (nothing else really gets it off of the model, and leaving it on might create problems with priming).

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Wow, I feel like the biggest friggin idiot in the world. I seriously did not think that was a lamp switch. I thought it was a strange stompa, or something. I'm friggin stupid, all apologies.

I second the use of Carmex/Vasaline when using GS.

10/10 because its legit! :3

It looks better than any of my green stuff work. I still have half of the roll of green stuff I got at my FLGS back in 1994.

the press is on backwards!

I love the subtle surface detail, creating an almost leatherette texture. It must have taken hours of work.

You could have at least done some checkering work on that, so your fingers don't slip in the fiture.. http://www.ahlmans.com/checkering.html here are some examples of checkering on rifle stocks.

Looks awesome will you cast some?

As for the carmex, or some kind of petroleum jelly... sugestion... dont do it! you will kill one of the GS strong characteristics the stikyness. believe me just use water.

Well the hard part is done. All ya gotta do now is prime and paint it. Have you chosen a color scheme yet? Perhaps some non metallic metals might be in order? My suggestion is inks and washes to preserve the astounding amount of detail. Just saying...

Do I smell a GD entry???????

It's better than mine. Only thing I've sculpted out of miliput that looks not like a five year old has bashed plastercine into my figures is some rope and that's just roll it out thin, fold it in half, hold one end and roll slowly.

Still, I'm trying elephant blankets next and that shouldn't be too hard.

Chrysaor686 ... I love you. You made my night.
Hmmm... So people, would you believe the fingerprints were on purpose? Yeah. That's it. A good light switch knob needs grippiness, right?

Duh...


Ghidorah

classic, instant classic. least it wasn't play-doh and actual GS.

Generic comment! Can't wait to see it painted!