Duro Green Stuff
Wife sculpting | dim, 01/22/2012 - 22:41
After sculpting my ownself, I tried to sculpt my wife. of cours ethis is not the kind of sport where you can allow your self to fail..
So first let's put some Duro over 1mm thick brass so that further sculpting attemps can stick on something.
One leg! then 2! not the greenish colour, I now mix Duro with MS, it glues better on wire
Now a beautiful dress
feet and hands
The head! Yes I have some Hornet heads not far away when i sculpt mine. It really looks like my wife :)
And now some extra pictures taken on a very low light outside. Some extra trimming will be needed
Sculpting JBADiorama | lun, 01/09/2012 - 18:33
That's another self portrait.
Now don't think I am doing those (Galilée, Sokol etc.) because I am a self obsessed git, i am doing those because those dioramas are telling about my life. Really, boats as well as history are some sort of not very important background to my dioramas, what matters is the figures and the stories they tell.
Whatever, I did that one and have a few comments to do about theb techniques involved.
First I made the mistake of assembling various bits of Dragon and Tamiya figs in the right position and then to trim them to let me apply some mastic afterwards.
That's a stupid thing to do, really the Magic Sculp doesn't hold very well to the plastic and it tends to produce too much bulky sculptures.
Anyway I did it. Afterwards I use pure Duro/Green stuff to do all the wrappings at the extremities -end of trousers, jackets etc. I try to be careful not using too much Duro because you can't sand it that well when it is cured.
then as the Magic Sculp wasn't really holding too well, I mixed it with some Duro (I saw some totorials about that) and well, now it's a fantastic trick because the MS gets way more sticky this way!
Anyway here is the final result. The greenest the parts the more stickiness i needed, the more Duro I mixed with Magic Sculp..
In the end the hands and ...ears are Hornet, the feet are Tamiya and the rest is me. It *does* look like me, except I granted myself a bit more hair than in reality. i can lie even more than on facebook with my own sculpting.
The grey stuff is Mr Surfacer to try and get a smoother finish when needed.. not a full success here
Oh yes, I am quite long limbed by the way :)
Now i will try and sculpt my wife, that's going to be another story!
Whitehead Torpedoes (part 1) | mar, 11/08/2011 - 18:54
One good thing when being around for a bit of time is that you get great help when asking for some very precise stuff. So here is a gentleman that scanned me some very old plans for Whitehead Torpedoes as they were built in Fiume -ex Austria Hungary. Well thanks once more because they're almost finished by now, and reasonably accurate.
The first thing I had to do was to cut some aluminium and brass tubes at the right dimension using this kind of plan
Then actually cut the tubes. i filled them with Green Stuff so that every element would be at the center of it's parent.
Let's cover those assemblings with Magic Sculp, wait for a few days and then sand until the shape is perfect. Now those early torpedoes look so much better than later types.
Time to sort of draw some lines all around the tail of the torpedo, so to do that, I embed it in my Punch and Die set and turn the shape until I have some sort of line all around.
More Diorama pleasures | sam, 06/11/2011 - 09:20
Friul T-26 tracks are really very small, you need a lot to do the whole of the tank. I still have 10 cms to do.
Very expensive to buy, Very tedious to build but they really look awesome in the end.
.. So when I get bored with those I keep on sculpting my figures. One tank pilot and 3 soldiers.
Magic Sculp and Duro green stuff as usual.
