Filling Archaon\'s Cloack

[Demon Hunter]

Hi all, I\'m currently converting the mounted Archaon into a Bretonnia Lord on Royal Pegasus. Not the most orginal model, but I had the bits laying around and thought it would be a nice challenge. I have removed the skulls from Archaon\'s torso and resculpted it into something more knightly. I\'m now trying to make the raffeled cloack a nice straight one, like here:

I tried by making a strip of GS, letting it cure a bit, pressing it into the cloack and smoothing the sides of the cloack out. Didn\'t really work, because as soon as I had smoothed it out at one side, the otherside looked horrible. If I fixed that side, the other side no longer was smooth. Anybody has some tips how to make the cloack more Bretonnia like?

 

[green stuff]

Before applying the GS, set up an armature with either wire mesh or a sheet of tin (carefull, you can easily cut yourself with that).

 

[Avelorn]

You could use milliput. It\'s more claylike and easier to use as a filler. And you can sandpaper it afterwards.

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Yup fill and sand. Its going to require practice with your greenstuff skills.

To get a thin sheet.. rool out a thin layer between two sheets of plastic film from like a baggie, when its set up a bit carefully cut out your cloak shape with a sharp knife and fold it to shape and tack it on..letting it dry. You may have to reglue it and do some fill later, don\'t expect to doit at one go.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Dragon Forge Design
...don\'t expect to doit at one go.

Yep, that\'s what I was going to say.

It\'s often an idea to work on one side at a time, not to expect that a free-standing area can be done in one step - in much the way that we use an armature wire as the basis for an arm instead of trying to sculpt it with the putty flopping around.

You can do coat-tails and cloaks etc. with a single layer of rolled-out putty but it\'s difficult to get these to look right on the outside and the inside and they generally have to be pretty thick to make them handleable (er, that\'s a word :innocent: )

Einion

 

[Demon Hunter]

Thnx for the replies I think my local trainmodel-shop just started selling Milliput, so I\'m gonna get some tomorrow.

 

[Ogrebane]

I did something similar for my ogres. I use a mix of 80% milliput and 20% GS. It gives you the best of both worlds and you can still file and sand it after heres a look at a rhinox I did

You can fold and shape the mix to get the shape you want and fill it in after it had dried.

Good luck

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
I did something similar for my ogres. I use a mix of 80% milliput and 20% GS. It gives you the best of both worlds and you can still file and sand it after...

Blends like this word well to improve the working of putties like Milliput.

But I think straight MagicSculp is way better (in addition to being a lot easier and faster to blend). Apoxie Sculpt from Aves isn\'t bad either.

Einion