Gangster Sculpt

[pete]

Right then, what we have here is a quick mock up I've done for a female gangster.  The idea is that this lot will look like the girls from Sin City so leather jackets, guns and swords.  This one is almost done, probably will be done today as it just needs a quick clean up and some detail on the body.  I've still to make the left arm which will hold a sub machine gun and the right hand will have a katana.  Right, pictures...













 

[Quareni]

Nice, if a little stiff in the posture - is it intended for casting? I like the cloth effect you have achieved, especially as it adds a little movement to her.

[badfang]

Pretty impressive, you don't say what scale it's to so it's difficult to comment too much on detail but (like most blokes ) I've got my own ideas about ideal female proportions



and, for myself, I'd be tempted to pull the front back towards the green lines and add putty out to the red line and to the bottom of her boots - shins look a bit short and weight distribution might need moving forward a bit, but all this of course is just my opinion.
Good on you for even attempting it

[pete]

Cheers guys. I don't know about casting for this one, it's a bit rough around the edges. I do want to cast some figures, hence the missing arm/hand but this is more a test to see if the material is any good at this scale, which it is to a point and to test out the armatures I've made to see if they work properly which they do. I like the material (Super Sculpey) as you can work as quickly or as slowly as you want, then bung it in the oven for fifteen minutes and carry on though it is starting to struggle with the really fine detail so I've gone back to Greenstuff. The armatures are a right pain to make but they mean that getting proportions right is much easier so I might make up a jig for that as well as getting hold of some flux as the joints are a bit temperamental, they snap cause the soldering is crap.

Scale is 28mm but it is really only a sketch to see what I can do with the stuff so I've not spent an age on details really.

[sw1]

So what's the stuff your using?

Not heard of super sculpty before.

[pete]

Sculpey is a polymer clay, kind of like Fimo only much finer. It hardens by warming it up in the oven like earth clay but at a much cooler temperature (130 degrees C) and for fifteen minutes.  To work with it's much less sticky than Greenstuff and doesn't gum your fingers up like Milliput does.  There's two types that I know of, standard which is a fleshy pink and is very soft and is meant for larger work than this and firm grey which this is.  The grey variety has a similar consistency to Greenstuff if you knead it through your fingers and once it cools down it is much easier to smooth out.  The main advantage is that you decide when you want it to harden and can work as slowly or quickly as you like.  Once it is cooked you can polish it to a really smooth finish which is something I've just found out (wish I'd known earlier then it would have been much easier) and a bit of Brasso on a stick is the current favorite for this.