hi all, just wanna share with you some of my recent in progress sculptures. im still learning the art, the main focus point is on the lower body this time. Im still suck at sculpting head, the heads are from historex, hornet, shenandoah....etc. im using bondite and the grey one is the mixture of bondite and fimo classic. found something interesting. by mixing bondite hardener, resin and fimo classic in the ratio of 1:1:1, the mixture appears to be more creamy and im able to create much more smoother surface and feel more control. No need to bake the thing, after the mixture cure, can be sand and cut just like normal bondite mixture.

KS,
the musculature and the proportions and pose is well done. Hope to see more progress.
Forgive my ignorance but what is fimo classic?

KSTan,

Great sculpts... do share with us the title of each of your sculpting figure.

And what is the FIMMO stuff ? where to get them ??

CPTan

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Fimo Classic is a polymer clay firm to sculpt and available in over 50 colors all in small 59g. As a moldable plastic material it takes details well. Gives hours or days to perfect sculpture. Final setting is with heat like heatgun or toaster oven. Polymer clay is the product used by pewter designers to sculpt masters. Fimo from Germany is the pioneer in polymer clay followed by Sculpey from USA. Both brands are distributed by Multifilla.

As pointed out polymer clay is easier to use than bondite and not restricted by short setting time. Even after heat curing one can still re-shape by carving or sanding. Perfect for original sculptures as durable plastic when properly baked.

Adding to bondite serves only as a malleable filler reducing bondite strength which might make it easier to sand. It is not even cured as no heat is being applied. Good that KS discover Fimo to mix with Bondite possibily to retard setting time and sharing with us.

emm the 3rd and 4th photo look likr the guy have a broken knee cap, zombie pose .. is that on propose ?

thanks for all the comments. For this figure, im distributing more weight on his right leg and his upper body turning 45 degree to his left and bend forward. he is going to hold some weapons on both hands. Due to the angle of the photo taken and greatly caused by my limited sculpting skill, it does look like a cripple zombie. :)
I haven't decide yet what those figure will turn out to be but im a "blade of the immortal" manga fan and hope i can sculpt a character from it. I bought my fimo classic polymer clay from multifilla. first time I got to know about it was that it was used by table game "confrontation" sculptor to make 28mm figure. Their figures were so fine in details which made me wanna try my hand on this product.

Nice to see you around the neighbourhood Kstan. You've got some interesting and nice action poses there. In addition to Revliss comment the trailing foot on the last photo (side view) appears slightly stiff but nothing major though.

I think your intention to sculpt in stages is a good one. Rather than tackling everything at one go and sculpt an entire figure its good, to start with getting the right shape for certain parts of the body then progress to the proportions and poses and eventually to faces.

I've always found sculpting challenging in that it forces us to view how things look for a 3-D view. What may look like ok from the front may sometimes look weird at a different when viewed from the side. Still nothing beats the feeling of having your homemade figgie...even though in my case most of time they turn out like Frankenstein. :lol: :D

Thanks for sharing and looking forward to see more.

hi all, here is my update of my sculptures. sorry for the bad photo shots, later i will try to update more recent one.

my latest update...

Wow!! Great stuff!! All my favor period - Ancient or Medieval warrior....

Let me guess:

- The first figure with the "zombie" pose... I think it will be some ancient fantasy warrior (Conan age perhaps)
- The second figure "ROBIN HOOD" I presume.
- The third one "Roman" figure??

Tell me if I'm wrong... hehehehe

CPTan

honestly i didnt have a clue how they will turn out initially, and that have delayed my progress. Now that i have figured out what they will be, hopefully i can finish they by end of this month and march will be my painting month. for the first figure, he will be a ancient japanese warrior(you almost got it :)). the second one will be a crossbowmen(good guess) and the last one, well a viking perhaps.

Very good progress on the musculature build up Kstan.

For an action post I like the last one the best. Viking is it, should make a very good Viking. Do keep the photos coming.

We have scale weapons, sword, spears, bow and real arrows and materials to construct
weapons of your choice eg micro surgical blade that resembles katana by fabricating with Fimo polymer clay the handle and sheath.

See product highlights in www.multifilla.com

Hi KS,

Your work is very good. Anatony looks good and creases also very well define, need to watch out for your finger print though.. I supposed you will sand the figure at the end. Really nice work, do show us more progress work

K.regards
Allan

after being sick for around one month plus, I finally had the will and mood in getting back to sculpting and painting. here are the update.




still figure out what hair colour suit this guy, any idea?










this knight is holding a shield on his left hand, but i encounter painter block as not sure what heraldy i should paint on the shield.




initially this guy should be holding katana on both hands but after sculpted the left hand, found the grip was too small to hold a katana. The left arm also was found to be a bit short but i was lazy and bored to change it again. so i just added a head and promised myself i will do better on my next sculpt. ha.



He is holding a helm on left hand. Found his head a bit small for his body.

Aha..... at last some refreshing new happening in the figure section.... I know I have been lazy recently, not much work posted in the figure section :cry:

OK, personally I like all your figures... especially the pony tail guys with the axe. Looks like old Sean Connery...

For the crossbow man, I presume U give him a "coconut style hair cut... seriously the coconut hair style was one of the famous fashion at medieval period.

Then come the blue knight, just paint a simple lion or eagle as heraldy for his shield lar... or a simple white "cross" will look nice too...

Now the crazy monk, the choped head on his left hand looks good.

Lastly the grand Master knight (I presume from his overall look), if U think the head is too small, try enlarge it with adding "thicker" hair.

I love them all :D


CPTan

thanks cptan for your advices. i painted the shield and will do some shading later on. Also uploaded some photos of the red color i just painted this morning.










im looking for a nice but inexpensive desk lamp for painting, any idea where can i find one around kl and how much power i should get for the bulb. thanks.

wow awesome ..

good poses.
Though I do not do much sculpting, I think the attempts are pretty decent. How extensive are your research on the subjects in terms of accuracy?

ooop! actually the last figure, the red knight is a recast of pegaso. i bought it to study its pose and measurement, as well as for painting. the rest i sculpted mostly the body with heads from warrior, hornet and historex. shields and blades are from pegaso. As for reference, well, take it as fantasy figure and not historical figure lah. ha..cause there are no historical accuracy at all.. :)