Gary!

Looking great!

As for how to measure the powder...easy...just do a scale powder horn with a measuring tip on the end!

Gary,

As always,

Joe

Hey Gary, always enjoy you posting, Great sculpting and looking to more from you.

regards

A little more on the 120mm head I'm doing that has a bit of refining yet to be done. I do not care for the upper eyelids, so I'll tweek those a bit.

Another view. As I want to allow the head to be properly positioned when placed on the figure this will be paired up with, I've left a fair amount of the hair off.

Gary,

That is absolutely beautiful!!

Gary,

That heads fantastic ! it's really shaping up nicely...

-Alex

Hey Gary, you must be in the zone that's another great looking head, really love the way you've done the hair

Gary, your work never ceases to amaze me. You are one talented dude. Keep up the great work.

Larry

Guys, Thanks a lot. I've been very slow to get things rolling as I went out of town this past weekend. Maybe I'll get more done today.

Anders, Glad you like it.~Gary

You know Gary, he kinda looks like Marlon Brando with them the way they are. Cool sculpt.

Francesca, Thanks for the kind words.

The next part(s) of odds and ends will continue with more work on the weapons and an sbs on scratchbuilding a 120mm tricorn hat.~Gary

Splendid work Gary. I always find making weapons quite enjoyably challenging, the worst part being finding the line drawings you mention. Any websites or publications you know of would be most welcome. I know lots of sculptors like you use plastic card for their weapons work but I favour milliput over a metal base as I at some point will harden the piece in an 'oven' to quicken the curing process and the plastic card seems to melt.

The head in this thread does indeed look like Mr Brando.

Regards Callum

Callum, Thank you very much. I have a couple of books that are illustrated with line drawings of hundreds of muskets rifles and pistols.

United States Military small arms 1816-1865
By Robert M. Reilly

United States Martial flintlocks
By Robert M. Reilly


The other books that I have contain photos of weapons that I just scale down on my scanner/copier.~Gary

Thanks Gary, I'll look those two out. :lol:

Regards, Callum.

120mm tricorn hat This is the hat that will go with the 120mm head and converted musket. The techniques are those used in Mike Blank's new book, though I've made hats in a similiar manner before. I normally would start by putting a thin layer of vaseline on the bald top half of a head and applying a blob of putty to form the rough crown. This hat was made differently as the sculped head was not complete and I wanted to get started. I took a blob of Sculpey and and pushed a template for a 1/2" circle over it. I made it inro the shape of a crown and then baked it.

I then coated the baked sculpey crown form with vaseline and pushed a blob of Magicsculpt over this, after which I took my spatula like tool and flattened the sides so it would not have a "bowl shape" to it.

After the Magicsculpt cure I went in and sanded the crown with scotchbrite and fine sandpaper.

I then popped the form off of the wooden base it was on and began sandind the base of the crown to a more scale thickness. When I was somewhat satisfied I had to remove the sculpey "core" with some of my tools as I could not pop it out. I encountered a little cracking and fracturing of the sides that I repaired with superglue.

After cleaning up the crown I rolled out a sheet of magicsculpt on a floor tile with wax paper fixed to it. Once the putty began to cure I embedded it into the sheet. I then placed a circle template over this and selected a diameter that would give me a little extra brim to work with.