Bueno, en vistas de que esto es "necesario" en lugar de psotponer el largo tutorial sobre mi penultima hornada ( moonwalker ) hoy martes 04 de julio me he puesto en el balconcillo a hacer una exhibicion (no tenia la camiseta puesta) de como hacer una mini en apenas 2 horas. Pasen y vean:I'll be quick on this subjuct since I mde it just for this article and took me 2 hours to complete the mini on sculpey premo and super sculpey, so I could hold on the work to take pics at any time. Ladies and gentlemen...
1.- Simple; haz una bola de masilla y aplica presion con un dedo sobre un extremo, girar el dedo para que la masilla ruede. Obtendras un piñon o forma ovaloide. Dejalo unos 10 o 15 minutos hasta que adquiera una consistencia mas gomosa y menos "destruible" por tu mano.1.-Knead some putty, make a ball of it and then roll your finger over one of its extremes; you'll obtain an egg shaped thing like the one in the pic. Let it cure for 15 minutes so it's more rubbery and less likely to be splatted due the pressure of your piggy fingers.
2. & 3.- Con una cuchilla afilada, parte en dos la pieza antes creada. Ya tienes los pies! colocalos en la posicion deseada sobre una peana o algo que te sirva para sujeccion sin tener que aguantar la mini con tus manos. Presiona cuidadosamente el extremo mas fino para asentar una base sobre la que poner el torso.2. & 3.- Split the piece in two halves; you got the feet genius! place them on the desired position over a base that will help you holding the mini without ruining it. Press lightly the smaller tip of the feet so the body will fit on its place.
4. 5. & 6.- Otra bola del tamaño del cuerpo para la miniatura, colocar sobre los pies y dejar curar (secar) la masilla completamente antes de proseguir. Acercando unos minutos la mini a una lampara de escritorio conseguiras que el calor acelere el endurecimiento d ela masilla. Luego quema, cuidado!4. 5. & 6.- Make another ball out of putty and place it over the feet. That will be the body. Let the putty cure or just get it close to a light bulb so the process will speed up to minutes instead of hours. Take care cause it ends really hot at this point.
7. 8. 9. & 10.- Las juntas son nuestro enemigo! prepara un fideo de masilla, colocalo sobre la junta y acompañalo con tu herramienta (un alfiles bastara) bien lubricada.7. 8. 9. & 10.- Gaps are to be avoided at any price in any sculpt and scale. Prepare some putty as seen in the pic and fill the gaps. Smooth it with your tool well lubricated. I actually used a pin here.
11.- Sobre aluminio o una lamina de plastico (cualquier superficie antiadherente y bien lubricada) coloca una bola de masilla. Aplanala con cualquier tipo de cilindro (un lapiz).11.- Use any non adherent surface and keep it lubricated. Now flatten some putty.12. 13. 14. 15. & 16.- Corta la pieza de ropa, capa o cualquier detalle que necesites, en este caso sera la chaqueta, y colocalo sobre la miniatura. Apreta un poco la lamina contra la miniatura, el lado en contacto con el aluminio es el lado que debe estar a la vista, asi no tendra huellas. Con tu arma bien ubricada, arrastra los bordes de la lamina hacia otras partes de la miniatura para integrarla. Seria el equivalente a difuminar pintura.12. 13. 14. 15. & 16.- Cut a piece that will represent clothing, put on the desired place, take out any excesses, bend the edges pressing and stretching them to the actual mini and gently smooth the surface rubbing your wet tool over it.17. 18. 19 20. 21. 22. & 23.- Formas y detalles: aplica presion con un mondadientes o algo similar, para crear las arrugas. Como nuestra creacion es andrajosa colocaremos varios agujeros y trazaremos lineas haciendo cortes, que representaran suciedad al estilo cartoon. Podeis poner un poco de masilla sobre el pecho, alisar hasta que sea muy fina, y con un alfiler marcar la camisa con sus botones. Dejad que la masilla endurezca.17. 18. 19 20. 21. 22. & 23.- Shape and detailing: I used a toothpick to pull in and out the cloths shape. Then I added holes and cuts. You can add now a bit of putty to its belly and with a pin do the shirt detailing. Let it cure untill its hard. It's like saving a file.24. to end- Haz dos bolas de masilla y unelas. Son la cabeza y la nariz. Añadelas al torso y dejalo secar. Luego sobre esa base solida añade masilla para ir creando texturas, pelo... Para referencia echadle un vistazo a las fotos. Si necesitais saber como se hizo algo muy concreto, preguntad y respondere encantado. Siento que sea todo tan acelerado, pero la miniatura han sido 2 horas, redactar el articulo 1 y algo, revisando las fotografias. Queda retocar las fotografias y etc... y necesito dormir. (me dan las 4 de la madrugada subiendo archvos)Espero que os haya gustado y os lo paseis biene sculpiendo vuestras propias figuras. No esta mal el Zombie 03 para estar terminado en un par de horas. EEEH, su espalda... Gamberos!24.- Core shape, smooth, cure, add putty, detail, cure and REPEAT. Yeah I'm lazy as hell. After all the mini took me 2 hours, the writting about and hour and a half and then preparing the pics to be browser-friendly. I will be happy to answer any questions on any specific step.I hope you enjoyed my Zombie 03, it came out quick and funny. Look at his back, you punks!
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Primigenio en primicia a peticion del Sr. Luizda. No esta esculpido por mi, es (si no me equivoco) de mediados/finales de los noventa, made in Spain, Criaturas de Leyenda, aka Sergi Sanchez. Resina. Pintado a finales de los 90 sin saber mucho de Cthulhu ni lovecraft. Figura esculpida por mi, sobe base de 20mm como referencia.That wasn't sculpted by me but Sergi Sanchez (aka Criaturas de Leyenda). Resin Old One that was made in Spain and painted somewhere in the mid/late 90's when I didn't know much about Lovecraft. Reference mini sculpted by me on 20mm base.
En proceso: Idolo de Cthulhu modelado en Nural 34 ( similar a milliput). Altura exacta 10 mm, moneda de 10 centimos de euro como referencia. Tambien podeis ver "el signo". Planeo usarlos como contadores para los juegos de cartas a la "pon un contador +1 +1 sobre el barbaro hemorroidico cada vez que ataquen desde atras".A diferencia de la kneadatite o masilla verde, la Nural se agrieta, si por ejemplo haces un cilindro y lo dobras en forma de "L" en el punto que haria 90 grados obtendras una molesta grieta. Uno de los puntos flojos de la Nural. Pese a ser algo poco significativo, no tenia ganas de estar pendiente de "alisar" constantemente una mini tan pequeña, asi que añadi al Nural un poco de scuplpey para esa palsticidad extra. Si, le faltan su brazo, mano, pie izquierdos, cabeza y las alas vestigiales. Ya se sabe, tiempo al tiempo, porque con el paso de los evos, incluso las minis pueden morir.Proximamente, unas minis exclusivas muy muy especiales, el idolo acabado, y el tutorial paso a paso (es que recortar todas las fotografias, redactar y maquetar, uf... pero esta en proceso ;) Hi there, this is my mini-cthulhu mini WIP. In fact it's an Idol I plan to use as tokens for my collectible card games. It's sculpted with a mix of Nural 34 (a putty halfway from greenstuff to milliput, cures like milliput) with a bit of sculpey mixed in for the extra elasticity the nural lacks of. Of course Nural's room temperature setting properties will take care of the sculpey mixed.It's 10 mm tall (see the 10 cent euro coin for reference in case you ae familiar with euro currency).It still needs a tentacled head, aleft arm and hand, left foot and its decayed wings. Really cute small prop for card gaming, hope to cast tons of them (including the Sign). I think it's turning out good considering it's so small and regular proportions (if this can be applied to HPL creatures) that are far from my toon style.Hope you like it.Soon i'll finish him (morrrtal kooombat! :D) and hen post a step by step on sculpting matters (it takes an awful lot of time to crop pics, write the text, etc...)
That it's not sleeping wich eternal can write on his blog...
Well, this article was boosted by No Such Agency 's comments, a great painter and even better CMoN'er, but its dedicated to anyone who won't have a clue about what I'm doing with those putties nor what I'm aiming for.
First of all, I gave "regular scale" a try; made few jawdropping (IMHO) conversions (back in the days of necromunda, when NMM, source lighting and all that stuff weren't on everyone's to do liste, so you had to rely on great conversions and clean painting style)
I realized sculpting is a lifetime hobby; you have to spend a lot of time on each piece to make it look decente insten of soomething to be ashamed about and hobby itself became boring to me (late 90s). Then it came Fanhunter Batallitas a space hulk ripp-off that surprisingly had a set of rules even funnier to read than to play. I have to give credit here to Chema Pamundi who injected the game with tons of humor and references to comics, movies, games (wich also the fanzine by the same name did but not as succesful if you ask me) and our own particular culture. Let's say it's some kind o hillbilly jokes ala Spanish.
Sergi Vidal Sanchez, a really talented guy (please don't get those james wrong, he's not mexican neither I am) created a line of miniatures that were not only true to the source material (half assed penciled fanzines) but even better since the original artist never managed to draw 'em from every angle so figuring out them in 3D and then make the minis look cute and fun was...well, a miracle.
I have a twisted sense of humor and like doing things my way even if noone cares so no matter I quit painting, gaming and the game wasn't supported ever again, now and then I kept sculpting stuff that I feel was funny to see and a great concept to sculpt. Matter or fact, I'm also a insane collector of japanese SD (super deformed) style stuff; you know, big heads, little bodies,etc... aka chibi, kawaii or also refered as "child body (CB)" parodies of any kind of character looking either fun or cute.
Consider also checking those pics of Makinavaja, HPM, Mortadelo, Superlopez, Pafman... Comic characters that made me laugh back when I was a kid, a teenager and... wel probably I'll buy one of those someday ;) After all, we all have our cultural roots buried deep in out hearts.
Big noses, big guns and peanut-like brains are common in some Spanish comic strips like the ones in the links I hope you guys just clicked.
Upcomming attractions; cthulhu idol, this time on regular proportions but in 6 mm tall !! Dare also to face my step by step with technicolor pics tutorial on how I sculpted The moonwalking smooth criminal and maybe me stripped (made by national geografphic, they mistook me for a sealion when I spent my day on the beach) pics too.
Have fun!
Bueno, mientras acabo de redactar y retocar todas las fotos (tamaño, resolucion, etc...) dejo una lista de links sobre escultura. algunos en ingles porque son traducciones de sitios web franceses. Bon apetit.Ok, some links to sculpting tutorials while I crop my and finish writting my own one. Bon apetit.- Creafigs (english translation from french).
- Chest of Colors (polish website, ENG language).
- 1stlistsculpting, the yahoo group dedicated to mini sculpting (grupo yahoo muy recomendado, que no os de pereza preguntar).
- Casting and mold making yahoo group. Otra visita recomendada... si no encontrais lo que buscais , preguntad y seguramete sereis atendidos con mucha cortesia.
- Materiales (Supplies): cualquier tienda interkits, El Corte ingles (Nural 34, masilla de henel en ferreteria) o en webs como e-minis o hobbies Guinea (both Spanish and ENGLISH language)..
- In case you got lots of time, try any article on CMoN or Here and There.
