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Post by fantasychild on Sept 22, 2005 21:00:16 GMT 12
I have Knead-It steel. It is like rock hard. I used it to sculpt a neck for my Mumak, then I did GS around the outside. But yeah, really hard. Smells though, think it has Ammonia in it  |
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Post by dustand on Sept 23, 2005 0:51:12 GMT 12
What was kneadit steel like to sculpt with? was it very tacky and can you get sharp edges with it? what is the curing time like ?
At the moment my sculpting its all coverting, repositioning arms and sculpting new elbows (yuck) and shoulders (yay) also sculpting the insides of drilled out hands and making a more menacing gauntlet. I have almost finished assembling 7 models for my new army, its been 2 weeks of cleaning, assembling filling gaps and deliberating before deciding on a course of action... whats cool is at this rate i will finish assembling the models I have when my layby on an army box is finally payed off... No work in progress pics of the sculpting though, sorry. This armies about the results and i dont want to find myself doing the work in a hurry to get pics and updates up.
Thankyou for selling me some greenstuff Phil. Its amazing the difference good materials make
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Post by PitYak Studios on Sept 23, 2005 10:49:10 GMT 12
Yeah, the new green stuff is definately an improvement. Right, see if I can remember all the points raised; Drill bits - you can get sub-1mm bits from model shops, but I've started using Linbide reduced shank bits from mitre 10. You get a pack of about a dozen for about $40, and they are all on the same size shank, 3/8" i think", but the actual cutting bits go down to fractions of a mm. You can change bits without changing collets in your drill. Milliput I'm using here is standard yellow. White's nicer, but I can't justify paying double the price for this sort of work. Milliput is probably the best for rolling out and cutting up. ... and a confession; that's not my workshop, it's the toolshop across the road, or my extended workshop as I call it. I go there to borrow the camera  Man I hate sculpting masters I've barely slept all week, living on insane strength esspresso and matchsticks. One night this week I did the action figure's ears (hard) a face on a 28mm (very hard) and the hand on a 20mm, which itself is only about 1.5mm square (very very hard). I decided I'd had enough so went to brush my teeth and thought "hmm, this feels odd" - I was holding the toothbrush like a sculpting tool. I could hardly use my hands afterwards, and I was hallucinating. Not surprising the dood resembles the thing, that's what he started out as  Last night I had a bit of a disaster. It was time for priming, so we went out to the shed, layed a down the first coat and as I turned to leave I heard a crash as the figure landed face down in the middle of the all the crap on the shed floor. Had to rinse it off, wait for it all dry, sand it back and start again. It's set me back a couple of days I can't afford, as the victoim is leaving the country in a week. A few sleepless nights ahead. Here he is at the mo;  |
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Sept 23, 2005 17:21:55 GMT 12
"Linbide reduced shank bits" you say? Okay...off to Mitre 10 tomorrow anyway to grab some more Knead It 'wood' putty so I'll have a look! Bummer about dropping the figure...I have a concrete garage floor and the worst I've done is finish painting and varnishing an Imperial Guard Chimera and then drop the bugger as I was transferring it back to the table...instant battle damage  I've seriously considered buying a couple of metres of astro turf from Plastic Box and just putting it under my work area to cushion any falling figures... |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Sept 24, 2005 8:27:50 GMT 12
I like that idea. Especially now. He's primed again, and ready to paint, so that's what I'll be doing for the next couple of days.
The label on the drill bits says "Model Accesory Kits HSS Miniature Drill Set 10 Pieces of 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 2.0, 2.3mm HSS10". You should find them with all the dremel accesories and routers and what have you. They're lovely bits of kit, and because they have the thicker shanks, for light drilling you can sometimes get away without even using a chuck, just twist the bit in your fingers.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Sept 26, 2005 13:01:44 GMT 12
Finished;    All that remains is to get the packaging printed, and paint his accesories (a bowling ball and rotary engine rotor |
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Post by dustand on Sept 26, 2005 13:20:52 GMT 12
hehe =] Looks a bit like this dude I know called Daryl
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Sept 26, 2005 14:35:45 GMT 12
Nice shoes!
And 'AVP'? What's that mean?
Alien Versus Predator?
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Post by PitYak Studios on Sept 26, 2005 14:51:28 GMT 12
yup
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 3, 2005 9:48:12 GMT 12
And finally, he's ready for despatch;   |
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 3, 2005 10:50:20 GMT 12
Hey that's some slick looking packaging! How the devil do you do that? Do you save the original blister plastic from the action figure? But then how do you get it off the backing card without leaving scraps everywhere Nicely done! |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 3, 2005 10:52:18 GMT 12
How the devil do you do that? Trade secret I'm afraid. I can't tell you everything! |
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 3, 2005 11:49:14 GMT 12
Oh I think your custom action figure business is quite safe Phil... It's a pretty unique service after all! |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 3, 2005 11:54:51 GMT 12
I will say in this case it is the blister from the original figure. Actually a second copy of the original figure. This beast was so big I couldn't find a blister to fit, so had to go and buy another thing, just for the blister. Not all lost, as I was planning to buy one anyway, they make excellent mannequins for big meathead figures.
So with my super-poseable spidey and demolition-action thing i'm doing quite well for action figure manequins.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 3, 2005 13:34:14 GMT 12
And here's the priest from a few posts back;   The base is temporary, and after looking at these pics, i think the paint job will be too :lol: It was a reet pain in the neck to paint this, what with all the "and lo god said you shall weave your apron out of a billion different coloured threads to make life hard for the humble model maker" and "and don't forget about your gold lame undergarments, or all them red and purple pompoms, golden bells and all that stuff". I found a good reference pic, and it seemed to show the undergarment as being a mix of gold and linen / flax type fibres, the robe blue shiny silk / satin with silvery threads, and the apron a coarse weave of gold, scarlet, purple and blue. I didn't have much of a clue how to represent these on a 54mm scale figure. "scale" is interesting here; a lot of the detail and painting on this was not at all "to scale", but rather representative. The customer was more concerned with having the garments visibly matching the biblical descriptions rather than accurately scaled. This is why i plumped for painting the apron in bands that are way wider than they should be, and also details like the clasps on the shoulder are much too large (deliberately). The apron is actually painted in bands of scarlet, red and gold, but for some reason the blue hasn't shown up. I would place this somewhere between a traditional toy soldier and a regular 54mm miniature in terms of style and execution. |
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