I’m to sculpt two horns for my mechanical dragon aprox 1 3/4" long. I have tried with Milliput, but that cracked to easily - and now I will try with Green Stuff - but the problem with GS seems to be that it’s way to flexible - and the paint will crack off. Already tried to pin it, but the tip is still to flexible!
Are any of you familiar with a method to hardening Green Stuff? Maybe changed the ratio between blue and yellow stuff? Could I coat it with super glue? - or could I mix milliput and GS? - or …
I often mix miliput with greenstuff when I want to make a harder compound for sculpting. Not tried it for making horns etc., but it may do the trick for you.
GaleForce 9 sell brown stuff. I have yet to try it out, though. For green stuff, using a larger qty of blue and less yellow might turn the whole thing into something harder. However, I would suggest to use a wire frame for the horns, it will make the whole thing a lot more stable and will also help with pinning.
You’re best off using wire underneath the horns to support the putty, brown stuff would be a good idea as it can be filed down once hard and it can also be mixed with green stuff.
Mabey a coat of gloss over the bare GS could help, or increasing the ratio of Y:B in blues favour. Using a Milliput armature for the horn, coated in green stuff could work as well.
soooooooo… just throwin it out there would hairspray work
or would it just melt the model/paint/green stuff/whatever
this would be great because when i make casts i let them harden for 24+ houres but just by cutting them to shape and then cleaning them up it kills the detail
dude green stuff hardens on its own…i think i read some other peopel already said this but your going to wantto use a wire frame then layer, then sculpt away
Your problem clam might be that the horns are too thin for the greenstuff to be that strong. GS only takes 8 hours or so to be fully hard (depending on the amount).
So if its not hard by then its either because you didn’t add enough blue, or the piece itself is too thin.
How wide are the horns at the base?
Something I’ve done well numerous times is to whittle down a long piece of plastic sprue, then slowly bend it into a curve.
Another idea is to do the above, but just for the tip of the horn. You then pin this to a long piece of wire and then GS the rest of the horn, blending it together.
If you have a wire core for the horns, it should be no problem. Just make sure the wire is firmly attached to the model. Also, it helps if you wrap a second piece of wire around the first, this allows the green stuff to get some hold and stops it spinning on the wire when you apply it.
Well, I can tell you that mixing milliput and greenstuff together should make someting much harder (and you can file/sand/trim it with a knife). Most weapons are sculpted that way by GW (or cut out of plasticard -which would not work here).
