Tools for sculpture model: part 3

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Ok now, we go to the next one of guide that I will share you the information.

Next tool for sculpture is the material for sculpture. there are many kind of product in the world that you can use in garage kit work. This post is the little example which I would like to introduce.

1. Japan clay(White clay) This type of material is the clay that have white color. Recommend solvent of this material is water. There are many brand that produce this clay. What brand that I use is Homespun. The package is shown below. The color of package is used to identify the weight of pack while product inside is same. This material have some limitation to scrape by normal clay tool. If it's nearly dry and you do some scraping in material, the work will have tittle split space. However I can do some scraping by tool when I put water in material before I do it. I would like to say when I use this material, it is the art of control water in the working.

I get this one from Thai suppler catalog of homspun

2. Epoxy putty (putty A+B stick type) Strongest material that I know for do sculpture. Physically, when we will use this kind of material, we have to put A path together with B path. Then, the material will start to setting, the material will hard by time being. At this time, we can do some sculpture. The material will harder and harder untill you can't do sculpture. you have to put hand cutter or another tools to cut or pick the material. The skin of epoxy material is very strong and hard to do sandpaper. But normally, we will use this material when we have to make some little detail work. Some people use this material to do detail on texture or detail of model coat.

3. Polyester putty: Similar to epoxy putty, Polyester putty have to have two kind of material mix together also. But, Polyester putty is in solute and solvent form that can use Thinner with. This kind of material is really smelly. Many Japanese pro-modeler use this material to produce the prototype of work. I wonder how they can endure the smell of this material. This material is quite strong but you can cut and do sandpaper in it so easy. But during material setting, you have to wait. The time that you wait is up to you control, if you put so much hardener, material will hard so quick. But, not strong. Normally, user will put only few of hardener to resin part. It's work with only few hardener.

I think there are another materials that we can use. Anyway, I let you to investigate and see another one if you prefer another. The polyester clay or normal clay is ok also. I think the limitation of sculpture isn't up to material. It's up to your idea if you work you can do anything.


Thank you some picture from http://www.zealousmodels.com

Last, here is my current work. I hope I will finish it soon. See you ^_^

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1st Zealousmodels meeting: speed draft Predator sculpture

Last week, I attended the meeting of board Zealousmodel which created by Narin(Clayman). He is the professional of Predator sculpture. In that meeting, I met many Thailand pro-models. One is P'Prasit who have many works based on his experiences. Here are the picture from the meeting and Clip of Narin's speed sculpture. enjoy!!

The meeting place at Prasit station




Narin's Predator

many works in table were worked by Prisit O_O


Prasit who worked in Thai model magazine, Hobby model said Here are only few work that he have. But, more of them were destroyed during the migration to his new house.

DD 1/1 Prototype by Prasit



Highlight of this meeting is the speed draft Predator sculpture by Narin

Front is Narin and Back is Prasit.






Thank you some pictures from zealousmodel.com

Tools for sculpture model: part 2

Most important tools of sculpture is wire. We use wire to build structure of model or figure. The figure which has wire in is become to strong than no one. This is very important because we will rub or slice figure during sculpting, sometime We force against a figure abundantly. So, a figure will broken easily if we don't have strong wire in.

The type of wire is separated in two type in my country. First, the ordinary wire, steel cord, this one is very cheep and quite strong. However, Steel cord has rust so easily when it reach to watery place. I suggest you to use another type of wire, Aluminum wire. there's no need to beware rust.

The simple of using wire in sculpture use two sizes of wire, small one and large one. However, you must be use large wire size suitable for your work, not larger or smaller. When you coil two type of wire together, the wire will be a core of your work. The smaller wire give more surface for material to adhere the core wire, bigger wire.

Now, you knew a lot of tools of sculpt. We have a few of tools that need to know, but I will talk about the step of sculpt a figure before.

The step of sculpt a figure is very simple.
First, you must sketch or draft your work on papers. The view of your working is very important. You should draw at least 3 views to guide your working. The three views is front view, side view and back view. If you decide to work dynamic motion figure, you should sketch as much as you can. I can told you only the anime model is very difficult because translation 2D to become 3D is hard. The guide for this hard point is you must find the relative of line from the picture and sculpture it from this guide. You can see the example of sketch and example of finding the relative line below.

Next time, I will describe the material of sculpture and second step of sculpture. See ya.

Tools for sculpture model: part 1

One important thing on sculpture model is tools. You need the tools for sculpture, scratch and build expect shape. My suggestion for choosing the tools of sculpture anime model should start with a art knife, brush and dental tools. You can see my tools below. If you can't find something like dental tools, you can use pencil or hard wood slim stick and scratch one side to your expectant shape. Don't forget to sand it by sandpaper number 500 and 1000. your major tool must always smooth serface. For the second shape of dental tool from the left, you can use sharp side of dividers instead. Dental tools is used to sprad out exceed material or sculpture surface of your model. Another important tool is brush. You really need bush to eliminate some dust on your art work after you scratch surface by art knife or sandpaper.