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I've a got a few greens for the first time finished in a long time. I just thought I'd throw them out there and see what the interwebs thought about 'em.


The one's I've started painting are starting to look like this:


It mostly just feels good to be hobbying again....

Thanks for looking

Inspired and in very good taste.

I would have used a wire root, a harder material than GS (brown stuff, aves apoxie, milliput), and files to trim the muzzle bells into more accurate shapes. They appear a little soft and uneven.

The beard knot-work seems a bit pinchy. If you use a manually curved quilting between mounted in a dowel-rod handle, with mild Vaseline lubricant, you could achieve tighter results.

 Live2sculpt wrote:
the beard knot-work seems a bit pinchy. If you use a manually curved quilting between mounted in a dowel-rod handle, with mild Vaseline lubricant, you could achieve tighter results.

I appreciate the feedback, but could you break that last part down for me? I'm amateur enough that the last part sounded like it may have been in a foreign language to me. That being said, your criticisms are clearly right on and I'd love to do better moving forward on this and other projects.

Go to a fabric shop and ask them to help you find the thinnest needles. Tell them what you are using it for. Once you have a packet of tiny needles, try to carefully bend the tips into curves. Some may snap. Once you have a nice curved micro-needle, mount it into a tight fitting hole at the end of a wood handle. a 5" dowel would suffice. Mount the needle deeply to ensure the shaft does not flex as you use it. SAND the wood around the shaft to a taper for good clearance.

This is the tool you want if you want to sculpt good dwarf beards.

That sounds like very solid advice, thank you for taking the time break that down for me.