- sculpting -

The lack of big figures in my collection and my own boredom made me go into a very special field: sculpting my own figures. I'm still only a beginner and, to be honest, so far I only made one figure. A Pinky:St Variant. However, now I'm about to make my first big sized and non-SD Figure and I thought you guys might want to take a look at the progress. Instead of posting pictures at my blog I will do it here, where all visitors can take a look. ^_^

Like I wrote before... I'm just a beginner so please be nice *haha* but please, feel free to send me advice of any kind! I think I could need any tip I can get.

Material and Tools

The clay I use is "efa plast light" by EBERHARD FABER. This is a light, soft and air drying modelling clay you can mix with water. This comes very handy when you need to make a very wet 'glue' for certain parts but also for the finishing and small details. I was told that it's very similar to Vance Project Mr. Clay - it definitly looks alike. I always have a bigger portion of very wet efa plast handy to smooth out things right away.

At the moment, my varity of tools is kinda small:
A Click-up Blade I used for almost everything before I got the small palette knife [Daler Rowney 2010], embossing stamp-pens and tooth picks for holes. The most unusual thing I use is a hand blow-drier. I need it to dry very wet efa plast as fast as possible since the material starts to 'settle' if the drying takes too long. Basically, that's it. I think it would be the best if I also get a airbrush set for backgrounds and color gradations but these are rather expensive - so handiwork, it is.

The colors I use are "DecoArt - Universal color" by Rayher - 15ml and 59ml. They are easy to mix with each other and dry rather clean. Through this you don't have to fight with visible brush strokes too long. However, these colors don't get glossy so you have to finish the figure with a translucent spray.