Green Stuff

Khaine · Post by **Khaine** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:28 pm

How long does green stuff stay soft? Is it something that can be prepped and then used over say an hour or so?

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Sat May 01, 2004 2:05 am

I wouldn't leave it for more than an hour. It gets to a point where its TOO solid to sculpt properly.

Megaleif · Post by **Megaleif** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:07 pm

A further question on Green Stuff: How do you get good surface smoothness like shown on so many miniatures? Someone suggested using petroleum jelly on the tools, but how do you ensure that it doesn't get in between the layers of greenstuff?

Fondu77 · Post by **Fondu77** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:09 pm

SUck your tool....
this is a pity... but the only way

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:33 pm

Fondu77 wrote:SUck your tool....
this is a pity... but the only way

A little water on your equipment will work too. And it helps to have a variety of sculpting tools.

Blammaham · Post by **Blammaham** » Sun May 02, 2004 8:12 am

I've only recently started using green stuff and have had much better results with saliva than water, just seems a little more slippery. To get a really smooth surface on an object use your finger prints as a very fine file and lots of saliva then gently rub the surface of the green stuff and it will get absolutly smooth.S.

Fondu77 · Post by **Fondu77** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:13 am

Blammaham wrote:I've only recently started using green stuff and have had much better results with saliva than water, just seems a little more slippery. To get a really smooth surface on an object use your finger prints as a very fine file and lots of saliva then gently rub the surface of the green stuff and it will get absolutly smooth.S.

suck it I say

ShaKa-ZuZu · Post by **ShaKa-ZuZu** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:27 am

Well. work with greenstuff really can be hard, and most often good results only can be aschieved with a lot of practice...

To smoothen he surface, just go over it with a wet finger or an other round tool (and remember that gs is poisinuswhen u suck your fingers *g*)

To achieve good results, u will have to experiment a little bit, with the mixture of yellow and blue... demanding on what u want to do with it...

Good tools are all kind of screwdrivers and dentist tools, u can get old dentist tools from yout dentist for free, if ya ask him friendy... another good way to make your "one-use" tool, is to carve a playtic spear from your bitz box with a knife, in what u need... a jeah, an d a knife is real good for making furr and similar stuff...

Have fun...

cya ShaKa-ZuZu

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Sun May 02, 2004 2:48 pm

Yeah, a dentist pick is good. The sculpting tool that GW sells is decent, but overpriced. I just picked up a sculting tool set from Heresy last december and I LOVE it. It includes a similar tool to the GW sculpting tool and its priced reasonabley.

http://www.heresyminiatures.com/images/pages/htt01.htm

Here's Andy's description:

HTT01 STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTING TOOL SET This rather smart set of 6 stainless steel tools are the same ones used by myself to sculpt the Heresy range. Budding sculptors, conversion fiends and people who just like poking stuff with pointy things will find them very useful indeed. My personal favourite tool is the one second from the left, which I do 95% of my sculpting with, and is only available in this set.