Greenstuff molds!

This newly discovered thread on Warseer I thought deserved porting over here. It is a great tool I have every intention of using! Hope it helps some of you guys out as well!

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2242

[Cagarner]

Originally Posted by Lord Commander Erus

This newly discovered thread on Warseer I thought deserved porting over here. It is a great tool I have every intention of using! Hope it helps some of you guys out as well!

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2242

OMG , thats so cool, and easy to do. You could make entire men with this process. OK, it may take up an entire block of greenstuff, but that would be soo useful!!! Im going to go a step further and create a 2-part mould to make some legs and stuff. This is really going to help my custodians that im starting again.

+Rep for posinting this out Erus

[experiment 626]

i've experimented a little with this myself! this is how dave taylor was able to get alot of iconography for his own custodians... the 'eavy metal team's keith robertson also uses this method for casting hoards of purity seals! (though i can tell you they're a right bugger to clean up due to their titchy size!)

it does use up/waste a good bit of green stuff though, but if you're carefull you can keep that waste to a minimum.
vegitable oil is good to use, and i find doesn't take quite as much washing afterwards! (if you can get canola oil, it's even better!)

i've got one of these molds made up for turning out imperial eagle icons and it works pretty good...
if you want icon that can fold around armour plates and such - use the mk7 space marine chest, otherwise any old banner top will do just fine!

cheers!

Quite welcome Cag! If and when you figure out those Custodes, let me know. I've had the idea of a small force of Sisters of Silence (A squad max) and being able to use a two sided mold would be great! So if you figure that one out fully, let me know!

[Killermoose]

This is great! Now I can finally put all that greenstuff I've got lying about to good use! (I hardly every use it....)

[WingZ]

Ive make a few of these myself.. can we post pics here? If so Ill show off a few ive done

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by WingZ

Ive make a few of these myself.. can we post pics here? If so Ill show off a few ive done

most definately! i think i speak for everyone when i say that it's always great to see how someone goes about creating helpfull tools like custom molds.

cheers!

[WingZ]

heres a few of my molds

[r4wr89]

yea this is a great resource! thanks for posting it Erus! + rep definitely!
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[Templar Mikeel]

I'm working on my grenade mold right now. Two frag grenades and two krak grenades at once. Mass producing grenades!

[r4wr89]

lol if only i could give some away...my brother didn't want his IG 'nades and gave them ALLL to me, and i just got another tac squad. so now i'm stuck with about a zillion frag grenades, lol. oh well..haha :] happy molding!

i was just thinking...would it be too ambitious to try molding a powerfist with 2 sides of a mold? :] could save a lot of money doing that...haha.
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[Templar Mikeel]

Well now people can feel your assaulting power when allof your squads are euipped with frag and krak grenades, which is what I hope to do as well.

How beardy is it to mold a sonic blaster (cut and converted to a one handed firing pose) to save my fingers hours of cuts and bleeding?

[Templar Mikeel]

Well in the thought of self preservation, not realy beardy. I don't think it is that beardy. You made a great sonic blaster and you want another.

1 hour later

Hmm, something went wrong, I think. I followed the directions and the grenades turned out as grenade shaped lumps without detail. What went wrong?

[Cagarner]

To get full detail, you need to apply lots of pressure. Remember to use the oil else you going to be stuck with one solid peice of Greenstuff!! The more pressure you apply, the higher the chance you have of getting all that detail.

Another tip i would give is dont even try and copy Forgeworld stuff... ...way too detailed!

[Templar Mikeel]

Oh thats where it went wrong, not enough pressure.

Thanks

[rintinglen]

Originally Posted by Cagarner

To get full detail, you need to apply lots of pressure. Remember to use the oil else you going to be stuck with one solid peice of Greenstuff!! The more pressure you apply, the higher the chance you have of getting all that detail.

Another tip i would give is dont even try and copy Forgeworld stuff... ...way too detailed!

Thanks for the heads up, I was trying to make some Auspexes (auspexi?) for my IG to help deal with those dratted Lictors and it didn't come out too well, probably for the same reason.
Neal at the Warstore, www.thewarstore.com sells green stuff in larger size quantities (and consequently cheaper per unit prices) for those of you who have some extensive modeling in mind.

Originally Posted by rintinglen

Thanks for the heads up, I was trying to make some Auspexes (auspexi?) for my IG to help deal with those dratted Lictors and it didn't come out too well, probably for the same reason.
Neal at the Warstore, www.thewarstore.com sells green stuff in larger size quantities (and consequently cheaper per unit prices) for those of you who have some extensive modeling in mind.

I do have some extensive modeling in mind, mainly because the jet bikes I have planned are so extsnsively exspensive, they would cost me as much as the rest of my army to make six of them! So thanks especially for that headsup, and the locat for a cheap green stuff supplier!