While at Origins Game Faire this year I took a sculpting class from Sandra Garrity. I have never attempted to sculpt anything before so I went into the class as a complete novice. The class was about sculpting armor, wings, and scales; since I plan on doing some Heresy-era Salamanders the scales portion of the class was perfect.
So here is my attempt at drake scales:
I was going for an aged and rugged look to the scales and I think the small ridges along the scales help convey that. I will have to work on some smaller versions for the Mk IV shoulder pads I plan on using on the Salamanders.
There are a couple of things I learned from the class:
1) I am not the only one that uses an Xacto knife for everything (including sculpting).
2) The 'clay' tools I bought were way to large for what is needed
Now to practice and practice and practice some more. All in all I am quite pleased with how my first sculpting attempt came out. Thanks for looking!
Quite often the edges of tools are much too bulky to work well, I have one of the GW sculpting tools and to be able to use the scalpel end I had to file an edge on it. With the mod it works quite well. There are a few good sets for mini sculpting out there, something like this starter set might be more like what you need besides an Xacto knife.
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DeleteThanks for the input! I have those tools and the GW tool as well and they are still a little too large. I am making some tools from needles and dowels as was recommended during the class. I will have to file my current tools down a bit as well. Thanks for the tip! I appreciate it very much!