Wotan's sculpt Thomas Cochrane bust 1/6
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Hi John
Fascinating to see the way you go about sculpting.
Jim
Fascinating to see the way you go about sculpting.
Jim
Hi John, just like Jim I enjoy your figure build up from scratch. You make it look so easy.
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
Welcome everyone. I hope I won't disappoint.
I have now fleshed out his head. I used Fimo for this because it is a heat hardening clay so I can work on it as long as I want without it going hard. Then it can be put in the oven to bake it hard. It can also be heated several times so I built the main features first, fired that then added his ears and fired again. Still needs some sanding and cleaning but he's on the way. I decided to mount his head on his shoulders since this would make it easier to add his hair etc a little later. He has obviously been working out but he really needs to work on his arms a little more.
John
I have now fleshed out his head. I used Fimo for this because it is a heat hardening clay so I can work on it as long as I want without it going hard. Then it can be put in the oven to bake it hard. It can also be heated several times so I built the main features first, fired that then added his ears and fired again. Still needs some sanding and cleaning but he's on the way. I decided to mount his head on his shoulders since this would make it easier to add his hair etc a little later. He has obviously been working out but he really needs to work on his arms a little more.
John
John, that's looking excellent.
I am intrigued with your use of Fimo....
I have struggled with curing time of Milliput in the few portraits I have done- this makes perfect sense- I never thought to combine the two. I would worry the Fimo would shrink over the Milliput base and crack- but clearly it doesn't.
Then again I am a better carver than I am a modeller, so I always end up tweaking and scraping and sanding, and Fimo is not so good for that. But I will definitely give it a try next time.
In the olden days you had to mix original Fimo with translucent to get a better consistency, but there are several new types around now-which do you use?
cheers
Neil
I am intrigued with your use of Fimo....
I have struggled with curing time of Milliput in the few portraits I have done- this makes perfect sense- I never thought to combine the two. I would worry the Fimo would shrink over the Milliput base and crack- but clearly it doesn't.
Then again I am a better carver than I am a modeller, so I always end up tweaking and scraping and sanding, and Fimo is not so good for that. But I will definitely give it a try next time.
In the olden days you had to mix original Fimo with translucent to get a better consistency, but there are several new types around now-which do you use?
cheers
Neil
Hi Neil
Thanks for looking in. I use just a regular sort of flesh coloured Fimo. I have never had shrinkage problems and since you can mess around sculpting it for as long as you want i have never needed to do major carving. It does sand very nicely.
Cochrane has now been to the hairdressers. I made this with a mix of Magic Sculpt and Greenstuff. This mixture gives a more firm medium to work in but it retains all the air drying qualities so is very useful for crisper sculpts. His collarS were very complicated but have been finished with the same sculpting mix.
John
Thanks for looking in. I use just a regular sort of flesh coloured Fimo. I have never had shrinkage problems and since you can mess around sculpting it for as long as you want i have never needed to do major carving. It does sand very nicely.
Cochrane has now been to the hairdressers. I made this with a mix of Magic Sculpt and Greenstuff. This mixture gives a more firm medium to work in but it retains all the air drying qualities so is very useful for crisper sculpts. His collarS were very complicated but have been finished with the same sculpting mix.
John
G
Great sculpting :smiling3:.
John,
Wonderful work, I really wish I had the skill to do this.
Wonderful work, I really wish I had the skill to do this.
Superb John. Hair flow very nice. The collar is so paper thin.
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
G
Wonderful skill.
Cracking work.
Hi John
Wonderful work. Already looking the part.
Jim
Wonderful work. Already looking the part.
Jim
Gentlemen you are all too kind. There is still lots of room for this to go pear shaped.
I built his telescope. A little different to the engraving but I think the artist was a little fanciful with his gently flaring telescope tube. I built mine more like the regular slide in ones. I also got half his jacket on. I am now working on how to make some navy buttons. I couldn't manage to keep his left arm detachable so it got glued in.
John
I built his telescope. A little different to the engraving but I think the artist was a little fanciful with his gently flaring telescope tube. I built mine more like the regular slide in ones. I also got half his jacket on. I am now working on how to make some navy buttons. I couldn't manage to keep his left arm detachable so it got glued in.
John
John,
You make this art look so easy. Looking great.
You make this art look so easy. Looking great.
Thanks Paul and to everyone. and by the way it is easy or I wouldn't do it. I bet most of you could give it a crack if you chose to.
Lots of details moving along, as well as 18 holes of golf this morning. It's a tough life but someone has to do it.
Imrovised the lace on his jacket. I also realised that his jacket should button left over right. The artist has reversed it in making his engraving. So I switched it around for my build. The buttons needed to have little anchor symbols on them, I found a way to approximate them by using a mould to press form green stuff. Not perfect but good enough. Next his epaulettes were a bit of a challenge. They also have the anchor and a crown on them which I have fudged but I hope they will look OK when painted. I think I'm getting close to gluing his left arm on since keeping it separate is getting difficult.
John
Lots of details moving along, as well as 18 holes of golf this morning. It's a tough life but someone has to do it.
Imrovised the lace on his jacket. I also realised that his jacket should button left over right. The artist has reversed it in making his engraving. So I switched it around for my build. The buttons needed to have little anchor symbols on them, I found a way to approximate them by using a mould to press form green stuff. Not perfect but good enough. Next his epaulettes were a bit of a challenge. They also have the anchor and a crown on them which I have fudged but I hope they will look OK when painted. I think I'm getting close to gluing his left arm on since keeping it separate is getting difficult.
John
G
Wonderful work.
Just caught up on this John, and I’m gladI did. It always amazes me how much skill you sculptors have building from scratch. Great work so far, I’m watching from now on.
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