Idiot question about tentacles...

[Sauce Devil]

How to make them?! :drunk:

I\'ve never sculpted before (although I\'m halfway through sculpting a head for a G.D of Slaanesh - it\'s looking passable) but I bought a cheap set of wax-sculpting tools and I\'ve got some ProCreate and Milliput and I\'m making a kind of Slaanesh-style flying-carpet/harem using these Heresy Succubi:

succubus

So far it\'s been pretty easy (it\'s not too hard to sculpt carpets) but I want it to be supported by at least one of the tentacles to give the illusion of floating, which means I probably need a wire core; it\'s not as easy as I expected! It\'s hard to roll out a tentacle with a piece of wire in the middle of it unless the wire is straight and when you want to bend the tentacle your fingers put big dents in the epoxy-putty.

I want the tentacles to be quite slender, about the same thickness of a thick piece of wire (I know what you\'re thinking, but you can\'t taper wire to a point!) .. will ProCreate be strong enough on it\'s own (I mean the tentacles hanging from the platform - one tentacle would have to be strengthened) or will it snap in half if it\'s knocked?

 

[freakinacage]

you can taper wire to a point. just file it

bigger ones, roll some putty over the wire. leave it cure then bend it. often it will split but you have the rough shape and it\'s easy enough to clean it up

 

[Sauce Devil]

Thanks Freak, I\'ll have another go.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Sauce Devil
So far it\'s been pretty easy (it\'s not too hard to sculpt carpets) but I want it to be supported by at least one of the tentacles to give the illusion of floating, which means I probably need a wire core...

Putty can be pretty resilient. I\'d personally use GS for this kind of thing most of the time but ProCreate should be more than capable of making a thin support for something light.

ProCreate can be mixed to increase or decrease flexibility by varying the proportions of resin to hardener.

Originally posted by Sauce Devil
It\'s hard to roll out a tentacle with a piece of wire in the middle of it unless the wire is straight and when you want to bend the tentacle your fingers put big dents in the epoxy-putty.

Yep, it\'s very tricky (if not impossible) to do this when the putty layer is thin compared to the armature wire.

Originally posted by Sauce Devil
...will ProCreate be strong enough on it\'s own (I mean the tentacles hanging from the platform - one tentacle would have to be strengthened) or will it snap in half if it\'s knocked?

It could; always a danger of that kind of thing with stuff made from putty. Even with GS, which is the most flexible of the common putties, it can fail sometimes.

Einion

 

[Sauce Devil]

Thanks Einon, I haven\'t had a chance to do much this weekend but ProCreate is tougher than I thought (I\'m used to Milliput which is rock-hard but brittle) so I\'ll try using it without wire.