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Congratulations for a good start. Interesting that you could make the armature from a single piece of wire. I'm still trying to decide between different materials.As I mentioned before, the one I didn't like as the main sculpting material is Greenstuff although it is the most sticky and easiest to attach to the wire (for me as a base coat) followed by Fimo. My first figures were just attaching Milliput to the armature, but maybe easier on a small scale. If you are not satisfied with your first figure, do persevere. It took me a couple of goes before I was half satisfied. I look forward tohearing your impression of working on the mixture of Greenstuff and Milliput as I want to make several more figures. I would like to have Darwin, Captain Fitzroy, Lt Wickham, Lt Sullivan, 2 marines and 5 or 6 sailors. Here's my current crew...
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I love your wood carved figures, and 1:75 scale? Superb! Reminds me of Carl Sluter and the other limewood sculptors of renaissance Germany
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Hi tmj, That sounds like a good project. I think 1:24 will be a nice scale to sculpt in. You have a similar issue to me... I couldn't find any 1:64/1:60 scale figures of Royal Navy crew from 1830s. Online I found images of uniforms, although mainly for officers. RN crewmen wore less formal uniforms, slops, even in 1830s. Was it the same on American ships? I found it harder to find images of 1830s pattern Royal Marine other ranks uniforms. For your armatures, what gauge/diameter wire will you use? At your larger scale, you will probably need thicker wire than me, or twist strands together. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your results
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A couple more pics to show colour better... but I just realised, it looks as though Captain Fitzroy is wearing jeans! I would be interested to hear if anyone has had better experience modelling figures with Greenstuff? Otherwise, my crewman dressed in white slops was sculpted in terracotta Milliput directly onto wire frame, or Fitzroy (mark 2) in Fimo Professional over a thin layer of Greenstuff over wire are worth trying.
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Thankyou. Just looking forward to starting work on the Beagle!
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Second attempt at Captain Fitzroy. Two piece wire armature fixed with superglue. I coated the wire armature with thin layer of Greenstuff. I don't like the texture of Greenstuff and found it difficult to sculpt detail, although it seems to be widely used for making fantasy figures. The thin coating of Greenstuff then coated with Fimo Professional.This doesn't stick well to the wire but adheres better to the Greenstuff layer. This is much better for sculpting. You just bake it in normal oven at 110 degrees C for 30 mins. Then I added for Fimo and sculpted the head, baked again, then added Fimo for hat. Once again 25mm high, 1:60 scale. This took several hours last night and then painting this morning. But should be doable to produce a Darwin figure and a few representative crew and marines.
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Mine are 1:60th scale.
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My first attempt at crew figures. These are somewhat later period of course, trying to represent RN uniform of 1830s for Occre HMS Beagle. I'll try again with different pose and more work on the heads/faces. These are 25mm figures. I made2 piece wire armatures (0.7mm wire) then experimented with building up with Greenstuff, Fimo and Milliput. I actually found the latter 2 clays easier to use, although Greenstuff sticks more easily to the wire armature.
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