Hi P'fers,

Here's my latest project, a commission piece, a Bedouin on horseback based on a picture supplied to me.

The figure is sculpted in a base of an epoxy putty mixes over a wire armature. I have used some different polymer clays in the outer layer along with some epoxy putty. Have run into some trouble with one of the polymer clays as it's quite crumbly and doesn't seem to bond well,so not really impressed with it. The other one is way better to sculpt with and tends to bond well and allow me to work on other area's without crumbling easily. So because of the former polymer it's caused a few issue's where I've then needed to rethink and resculpt, which can be challenging and in some cases not enjoyable.

So have started to get on top of this, and being my first sculpt of a horse I think I'm heading in the right direction and always learning along the way.

Take care everyone

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Great work

Mobo

Nice and complex work, I like it.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

Looking pretty damn good for a first effort I'd say*

... care to name names?

*I've only ever sculpted one horse (1/12th scale, all in DAS clay)... and that was almost 50 year ago!

Thanks Neil,

Don't really like to name name's, but anyway what the hell. So I've been using supersculpey medium hard, and have had quite a few issue's. Whether it's the batch or just what's in the recipe, I'm not sure. In contrast I was gifted some of Darkstars molten clay and it's beautiful to work with. I would compare it to another one like bees putty, tackier to the touch and really responsive. And when I half bake it so I can sculpt in stages it's definitely a little stronger to handle the bumps when sculpting other area's. Also nice and hard when baked fully, not brittle like the sculpey.

Cheers.

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Thanks: I've stuck with air-cures (Milliput, GreenStuff etc... and yes, DAS for bulking out) but want to give oven dries a go, so that's useful info

Amazing so far, I want more ... I need more !!! Just go on, great work!

Cheers Borek

Thank you Borek my friend, I'll keep working on this and see where it leads

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Amazing work Chris! I absolutely love what you have done so far.

Cheers
Ken

A damn fine first effort.

Excellent work mate, love the sculpting.

Regards, Marcus.