Hi everyone, this is the wip bust of no.5 (uncle Arthur). Thanks for looking.

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This is the process of late I've been using that seems to be working for me. This process is starting to feel comfortable for me when sculpting both heads and now torsos.

It starts with a wooden disposable chopstick that is positioned into the cork.
The chopstick is cut to an appropriate height allowing for clearance for the layer's of epoxy and polymer clays.
Once the desired length is achieved I cover the chopstick with epoxy putty, then add the layer of polymer clay mix over the epoxy that hasn't cured yet.
That is left to cure and bond, so the end result is a hard armature foundation on the cork with a nice bonded tacky surface of polymer clay that is good to go to be bulked out and sculpted to shape.
The head which has been sculpted and baked earlier is able to be placed and tacked on at times to use when building up the shoulder, trapezius and collar of shirt.
From there it's just taking you time and using references to observe shape and volume's etc.

I hope this gives someone a bit of an idea of how one can approach a sculpting project for a bust of various scale.

Regards
Chris.

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So much to like about this Chris.
Likeness of the Sarge is sublime mate.
He looks every bit the nervous, eager to please, harangued character he played.
Presume you’ll add his stripes?
MikeTheKiwi

Thanks Kevin,
I thought it may be of some interest, not wanting to tell anyone how to suck egg's. It's something I've seen done by other sculptor's and may be not exactly the same process but it's definitely a better option to how I have been doing things the past 3-4 year's.
Cheers Chris.

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Thanks Mike, glad you're liking the sculpt, and pleased you get the sense of character. Regarding the stripes...

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Hi Chris.
Looking good mate, Might just be me but the Sgt chevrons appear a little long.



Mike.

I could've used this back a few hours ago Mike Lol! . Oh well, looks like a little bit of a clean up and some magic sculpt added on, cheers mate

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Sorry mate the C

Sorry mate the Crystal ball is on strike like the bloody railway.
Mystic Meg

What sculpting medium do you use?

Mike

I'm using a couple of different type's, for various stages of the sculpt. The outer layer's are in a mix of two polymer clays.
One being supersculpey either medium or hard and the other being the moltenclay product that I believe is no longer being made.
The best way I could describe the mix is something like the bees putty polymerclay product.
Supersculpey doesn't seem to be tacky enough for my liking. It's a little on the pasty side and needs that extra tackiness to bind it, which the moltenclay provides.
Another way to describe it is, it's a bit like greenstuff at the middle stage, after it's slightly cured but still malleable. The major difference is that you can get way more details and you are chasing the clock as it stays soft until baked. And then as we may know, it can be baked in stages at various temps.

Chris.

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John Le Messurier at first glance what an fantstic likeness...will the captain and corporal jones follow

Outstanding. Will you be adding his medal ribbons as well? Mainwaring was very conscious of the fact that all senior members of the platoon had their WW1 medals, although Godfrey never wore his, whereas he had none.

Mike

hello Nap
first thanks for the nice welcome message and ok then i will look for them in the forum i LOVE DADS ARMY it was and is always an pleasure watching it never get tired of it
cheers

Hello Mike,

Thanks, I don't recall Wilson wearing his, well not on a regular basis at least.

Regards
Chris.

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Hi pinsel123,
Hope you managed to see my post of the rest 9f the crew. If you're interested, I will have more sometime in the near future as I'm currently out of all apart from YS03. If you want any further information email me at ybrossculpts@gmail.com
Regards,
Chris.

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hello
yes i saw them they look spot on unbelieable likneness