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I don't get paid until the end of the month, but I had the urge to do some modeling. I remembered someone had given me a tub of Crayola Model Magic, so I sculpted a few pieces of terrain.

I haven't sculpted in long time, but I'm pretty happy with the results. C&C welcome.

First I built a L-shapped section of stone wall. The reason it bulges in the middle, is because I sculpted that section of the wall as partially collapsed, then cut out and shaped sandbags to go on top. I sculpted one of the sand bags like it's ruptured and is spilling sand. A lot of the detail is lost in the photo (Yeah yeah, I know everyone says that), but I added lots of texture to the stones, which will hopefully show up when I give it a paint wash at the end.



EDIT: I messed with Macro settings on my camera, and got slightly better pics of the details, here a close up of the ruptured sandbag:


More stone details, I'm getting more comfortable adding texture and detail the more I get back into scuplting:


I started work on a foxhole. I tried to sculpted it to look like there a shovel marks on the inside wall, and loose dirt on the outside wall. I added a ton of texture, which again doesn't really show in the photo.

EDIT: And here's what I did with the foxhole. The inside space is just bid enough to fit 1 standard infantry base, so I'll probably make it a diorama piece, instead of tabletop terrain:

Sandbag detail:


Ruptured sandbag. I'm going to add a knife bit like some meathead guardsman stuck his knife there:

Empty sand bags on the left (it's hard to tell from this angle, and a partially filled sandbag on right. I need to get a IG shovel bit to add to this section:

Dead stunted tree, I'm debating whether to add a few more branchs and/or a few leaves:

when i first looked at the picture i just saw a yellow L^^.
after reading the text you wrote everything became clear and i have to say, you've done a nice job.
looking forward to see it painted.

^Thanks for the kind works

Here a new section I started; another stone wall with a tree on the right and a fence on the left:

Tree detail:

Fence:

Nice work!

Does that stuff air-dry to a decent hardness? How's it to work with?

Thank you

It air dries to a decent hardness, but it's never gonna rock hard. When it's dried it has a just a little bit of give, but it doesn't permanently deform unless you intentionally apply a decent amount of pressure. I have a partially completed horse statue I last worked on about 2 months again, and it's solid enough to handle without any worries.

It's great to work with, as it has (almost) no residue, and doesn't stick to everything like GS. It's similar to regular non-drying modeling clay, but it feel a little lighter. It sometimes cracks if you let it dry out to much, and then try to model with it, but over all I'm really happy with.

Just make sure you build a wire frame for anything that's big and thin, or carefully dry the piece on it side.