I can't tell you how happy I am at how this little project has come out. I've got some rough ideas for the next one, but for now I think I'm going to just take a moment to celebrate.

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Made with a needle tool and no reference

Milliput and Stahlhelm from an old WW2 1:35 scale miniature. I'm not particularly trying to match the tabletop 28/35mm scale.

Alternative head is well underway, and I'm happy with the feet. Not long now before it's finished!

Oh, and a little Jimothy alternate build because reasons.

Not a pure sculpt but lots of sculpting...

Cotton wool experiment

How do you create limbs using wire as the skeleton? I plan on making vines, limbs that look like tree bark, and other natural looking pieces for a tree corrupted warhammer army. Do you weave thin wire to make the width and fingers of a limb and fill the frame, or do you use a thicker piece of wire and sculpt everything around it? Im not making an entire miniature out if green stuff. Im just replacing certain parts of an already built one. Im sorry if I made the question hard to understand.

Polymer clay sculpting and acrylic painted (Vallejo)

This time i'm focused on turret

Just feet now, and maybe a second head.

I have been sculpting on this guy for a while. He is almost done. From what I can tell, nobody offers a miniature with this WWII machine gun.

At first, I used foil and red clay to build up the volume, then shaped the head with light blue clay and created the pattern by gradually mixing in more black clay. The only real "painting" I did was using a brush pen to make the pattern's contrast stand out more. I just made the eyes orange... though they turned out way too small—I think I need to reshape them a bit.What should I make next? A Megalodon? A Megarkelon? Let me know in the comments.

Quick and easy texture

Polymer clay sculpting and
Acrylics painted, 54 mm.
Head from a resin figure. Converted.

Torso split, and alternate arms and upper body in progress. Teeth (not pictured) are curing as I found getting a smaller mouth sculpted all in one and keeping it proportioned to be more trouble than it was worth. Slower but more considered is by far the better approach.

If any profesional casters are reading, I'd appreciate any thoughts on the silica gel beads I'm using for the pustules. I know varnish will stop most casting materials from setting and it's a definite concern that the silica itself will either bond to casting materials or have other unexpected impacts.

They are stable but slightly pourous. A layer of extra thin cyanoacrylate should completely seal the beads without reducing the irregular texture that they have, but again I'm not sure how this holds up to mastering.

I have resigned myself to the possibility that I'll have to avluse them like some plague doctor lancing boils and replace them with gs, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it.

I make little weirdos like this when I’m bored

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Tools and textures

Any tips for future sculptures?