i need help with the green stuff

[the_biggest_m]

well i have been expermenting with the green stuff and i just plain.....................suck! :steam:

can anyone here give me step by step on how to make perfect parts like exact replicas? thanks

[aceofchaos]

what do you mean?
like how to mold another arm or leg or something?
also PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE is all i have to say
don't start greenstuffing your great model when you have no experience. try greenstuffing stuff that isn't that important. like troops frist (because you have tons of them) then move on the better stuff as you get better.

[Tinweasel]

Moving this out of the Tutorials section and into Painting & Army Displays proper.

[fifth_horseman]

1. Are you having problems with sculpting or with casting? The two are completely different things.

2. Aceofchaos has already said about practice. This cannot be stressed enough.
Three years ago I had my first contact with GS. The way I used it? Apply -> wait to dry -> carve, cut, file. Very messy and it was using up GS in incredibly large amounts. A year ago my skills allowed me to sculpt a completely new powerfist for my vet sergeant, and one that looks _properly_. Last week I was sculpting a total of 37 pinhead-sized (and smaller) rivets on my new conversion, not counting some other fine sculpting work. All of this came to me through practice and repeated sculpting attempts.

[onlyme]

my skills allowed me to sculpt a completely new powerfist for my vet sergeant

I would love to see that. (seriously)

Casting is a waste of time most of the time.... the GS you will waste costs more than the model if you buy components. (obviously there are exceptions).

There are some great sculpting tutorials out there ( :google: )but it all depends on what you want to do.....

[the_biggest_m]

thanks guys i really have to practise thanks

[fifth_horseman]

I would love to see that.

Here, scroll to the bottom to see Sergeant Caliban. Yup, that's the thing, heavily inspired by the design shown in Crimson Fists Index Astartes article.

Casting is a waste of time most of the time.... the GS you will waste costs more than the model if you buy components. (obviously there are exceptions).

Depends. I often use it to recast small details (fleur-de-lys from Sisters of Battle miniatures or Purity Seals for two good examples), and I also used it for some of my Dark Eldar to duplicate the female torso frontal features on other torsos, as well as duplicating the female faces and male bald heads. It would cost me a lot to bitz order the DE sprues just for these bitz, dontcha think so?

[onlyme]

Depends. I often use it to recast small details (fleur-de-lys from Sisters of Battle miniatures or Purity Seals for two good examples),

Thats pretty much where I was comming from. Any left overs from a bigger project end up in a mold of either a purity seal or Rosarithingy.....

The powerfist looks good - pics a little small and the angle is difficult :argh: