I think these are looking really good. Wrinkles are hard to do.
You say you are done with greenstuff - how do you think Milliput compares to PreCreate? (I use ProCreate for my work) I also build my under skeleton out of Magic Sculpt. It's like pottery clay when working with it, but dries concrete hard. You can grind it, drill it, file it. Really nice stuff to work with to get the basic shape down. here's an example, The feet will be filed down a bit. I always add these blobs around the feet to help it stand while it dries.
Matthew
Thanks Matthew, yes, wrinkles are hard, I just sorta let them happen, really no plan, that makes it easier
It's sorta of a "Bob Ross" approach.
Greenstuff is a step up from super sculpey. I started with super sculpey, at first I thought I'd like the infinite work-time, but I kept smudging what I already sculpted, and I can't keep baking it every time I finish a piece because I heard it'll crack. Plus small details were hard to achieve.
So I discovered greenstuff, I'm using kneadatite blue/yellow, I don't know if there is a difference between the other brands like army builder, games workshop, etc.? It holds detail very well, but it is very tacky, so I have to rub the tools on my forehead often to "grease" them so they won't stick; also, it is not very malleable. Once you've applied some putty to the figure, then you decide that you need to add more, it is hard to "erase" the lines between the two pieces of putty. The plus side is that it dried over time, so I could really "manhandle" the dried figure when sculpting other new parts. Plus, as it hardened, I could make different pieces. Example: when it is first mixed and still soft, I could apply large pieces to make basic shapes, but as it hardened, it became less tacky, so I would roll it out and make belts, straps, etc. Like I said, it holds detail very well, it's just hard to achieve it.
Then yesterday I decided to try milliput, superfine white (like my wife ^&grin), and I definitely cannot back to the others, because I love this stuff! First, it hardens as I go which I consider a must. A new dimension that the others didn't have is the use of water. Once I start a basic shape, you can use water to lubricate the putty, which makes it softer and malleable on the surface, it's like real clay, except I don't have to bake it! Then it starts to set-up some, then I find that I need less and less water as I go, and that is when I really can make really detailed wrinkles.
I don't know about procreate or magic sculpt, but I'm glad you mentioned them, every since my impasse on the greenstuff, I've been looking for something new, milliput just happens to be the first one I chose. But I did research procreate, and I'm interested in trying it, what do you find are some pros and cons? What is magic sculpt like? I'm assuming it's inferior since you use it for underlayers?
Whenever I used super sculpey, I use to build-up a thick skeleton of clay, but it was sorta chunky, I found it harder to make wrinkles this way. Once I just started using one type of putty and applying it directly to the wire and sculpting till it dried, it became easier to make wrinkles, because it had enough softness to make deeper wrinkles.
