Touching cloth: sculpting folds of fabric in greenstuff

Hello there! I’ve been sculpting a hell of a lot of cloth for my necromunda gangs lately and received quite a few messages asking how I go about ... touching cloth.

So here we go!
Tool list:
•Two bits of clear plastic (the plastic from the clam shell packages are ideal.)
•Petrolium jelly. Any Vaseline will do. I’m using sculpting Vaseline.
•Greenstuff. You can give it a go with miliput but I’ve not tried it. And greenstuff is pliable.
•Sculpting tools.
•Razor blades.


Right let’s do this.
First you want to cut your plastic into two sheets

Rub a little Vaseline onto each to stop the greenstuff sticking

Place your green stuff between and squish and move the plastic until you have the right thickness for what your wanting. A firm even pressure for best results. It’s really easy to stick the greenstuff to the plastic. But this system is so quick if you mess up it’s easy to try again.

Now cut away the excess until you have your base cloth. Using your sculpting tools pick it up to avoid fingerprints and push it into place. Don’t rush this step. Greenstuff has a long drying time so you have lots of time to work it into the right shape.

I use a rubber sculpting tool to push it into position, I start by getting the corners and pushing them into voids in the model with a cocktail stick, under shoulder pads or hip pads are best. Then using a small rubber sculpting tool manipulate it into shape, if you don't have one of these get a cheap pencil with a rubber on the end and shave it into a chisel shape. boom cut price sculpting tool. Don't use dental tools for this step. although you may feel you have more control with them you will end up squashing it into shapes with hard edges. The rubber tools are the way to go. Now leave to dry and presto, loin cloths, cloaks, and drying human skins for days!





Greenstuff sculpting is still quite a new area for me too so this is very much my own uninformed opinion. Good luck. And happy painting.
Henry

Van Saar: The dust gate orb weavers Finished!

After a bloody age of these guys sitting on my desk I've only gone and finished them! And I'm really happy with how they came out.

As it's been 7 months since I did the concept for them I'll recap whats been done.

Each one has padding sculpted between the hips, neck, ankles and shoulders to make them stand a couple of mm taller and adjust the poses significantly. Cloaks were greenstuff rolled out between two pieces of plastic coated with a little olive oil then sculpted into position.

I've kept the metals NMM so as to get the contrast I wanted and keep the colour pallete manageable.
The colours I settled on are a bit of a classic as the models were quite busy I didn't want to make it jarring. So turquoise and orange over muted bases are always a good bet.

Enjoy the photodump!

and happy painting! See you next week for my Delaque plans!

INQ28: INQUISITREX COUNTESSA BOR'GIA

##### INQUISITREX COUNTESSA BOR'GIA ####

Born Elsbeth Taliessan Bor'gia, part of the Imperial aristocracy on Vanaheim in the segmentum Obscurus. 

She lead a charmed life of luxury and ease with servants and guards to attend to her every whim. Loyal and devout the young girl spent most of her time attempting to talk with the ladies of the adepta sororitas stationed on Vanaheim. But the cannoness of the order denied her access. Sensing something odd about the girl. An ethereal grace and a nearly precognicent sense of danger. But those around her felt weak as she practiced her blade work in the grounds. Almost as if she used their stength against them. 

At the age of 15 the young Elsbeth started to suspect something in her house. A presence around her family that felt wrong to her. #### RECORDS EXPUNGED #### Many months later the girl was found surrounded by the remains of her family, the marks of mutation and dark worship readily apparent on their bodies as glowing tattoos. It was obvious to Inquisitor ********* who found her that she had rid the planet of their foul heresy. But stranger still was the sword and bolt pistol she used. A Grey Knights power scimitar and a heavily modified bolt pistol that appeared to have a servo-skull wired into its viewfinder with small grav-enhancers to compensate for the weight of the weapon. Inquisitor ********* immediately took her off world to begin her training, seeing in her the latent psychic ability and utter devotion to the imperial cause. 

She is now considered one of the most terrifying inquisitors in the ordo herictus. Although many wisper vampire behind her back.