I picked up some hobby mold sticks the other day so figured I would give them a test run
The sticks look like this until you put them in hot water to go soft
I pushed the pieces I wanted to mold into half of the stick. I then let it cool down.
Once it was cool I pressed the other half of the stick over the top wrapping it over a little to make sure the mold would line up nicely
I left it for a day to make sure the green stuff hard gone completely hard
Trimmed off the excess and they are good to go!
I got two units of Stormblades second hand and a few were missing bucklers so now they all have them!
I also cast a storm knight helmet, I intend to cut off these open helms and replace them with green stuff ones.
I have a lot to paint in my Cygnar army so doing it in batches will help keep things a little more consistent. So I will likely try to paint all of these guys at the same time.
Here are my Stormguard to show the paint scheme these guys will be getting
I didn't really know this technique existed! What do you think the limits are, as far as max/min size or detail? Do you think you could embed pins/armature in the green stuff, if you were a doing a blade or weapon barrel or similar?
ReplyDeleteI don't know how big you could go with this stuff, you do need to be careful not to put the "mold line" near a area with a lot of detail as the mold lines are bigger than say plastic minis
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