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frozenpyro71 — Sculpting wings tutorial
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Quick and (hopefully) simple guide as to how I sculpted the wings of my Pegasus Royal Guard [link]Any questions or additional information about things i've missed please ask.
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Thank you for taking time to make this! If you don't mind I had a couple questions about one of the materials, the plasticard. Namely what exactly is it and how does it apply to polymer clay? Can it be baked without loosing the shaping? I tried googling for this but couldn't find anything definitive. Thanks either way!
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Plasticard is essentially just styrene that can be brought in sheets, rods, tubes, angles and a load of other shapes and thicknesses. Its used a lot in model railway builds and scale models. The best place to find it is eBay or to search for 'evergreen scale models'.
For polymer clay work its not ideal as it will bend and warp when heated; a good thing for building with it but not baking it. Thats why this wing method uses an epoxy clay, no baking required. For polymer clay I haven't really found a substitute but someone did mention tooling foil as a good base.
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Hmmm, interesting! Thank you for telling me.
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It looks wonderful, thank you for the tip! I'd also like to know how you attach the wings to the sculpt itself 
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Usually with a length of wire or paperclip drilled into both the wing and the body and glued in place.
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Not particularly, its just a thin sheet of plastic and a layer of clay. Nothing to it really.
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Awesome! *_* I was just going to ask you, if you'd know any ways to sculpt something like a cape - but your wing tutorial really helped me out - thank you very much! *_*
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Where can I get "Milliput" and "Greenstuff"? I've never heard of anything being called that.
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almost any 2 part epoxy puty will work also. just so long as it hardens up to solid end result. if you are in doubt about the puty, kneed up a small ball of it and let it cure.
depending on your location, or sources:
Privateer press has a sculpting putty
Games workshop has their green stuff
Cool Mini or Not has a decent putty as well as a quick mold for duplicating
Milliput
sculpty and sculpty2 these are more of a advanced sort. requires a calculated time in an oven to cure them. emphasis on calculated time. to long, you burn, to little it doens't cure. you get ONE try.
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Some art supply shops have them but, if in doubt... Ebay.
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Even i did not exactly following your tutorial, it was still a great help for the wings on my own model. The basic was a 0.5 mm plastic card too.
To be exact: I bended them with a heat gun and noticed, that this card is bending on its own. And always in the same direction. Good to know when you draw the wings on the card. The first ones bended in the wrong direction.
I took a different way for making the feathers. I made them without crafting a shaft on purpose. It's coming out by making the ribs (or barbs, if you want id correctly) of the Feathers. Second, my feathers are not going from end to end of the Wings. That was impossible because of the special kind of wings i did. so i made them like roof tiles. But the rest is similiar to yours and this tutorial was the reason why i got enough confidence to make a pair of my own wings.
BTW: This is my result. [link]
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Thanks for the tutorial, it looks great, but what about the backside of the wing?
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The back of the wings is done in exactly the sme way as the front, but instead of three rows of feathers there are two.
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This is really helpful!
I just started working on a pair of wings and was about to start a battle with the old metal wire making an armature.
The idea of making it using plasticard is really clever!
Thanks!
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Nice tutorial. Do you sculpt the other side afterwards?
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No I sculpted the wing just for the tutorial so didn't really need to do the underside.
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But you normally sculpt the other side too, right?
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Yes, both sides are sculpted. If both were done it would look like [link]
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That looks amazing! You're very talented.
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I love this, but I must ask. What kind of clay did you use?
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The clay i use is called milliput. its a two part clay that doesn't require any baking or firing.
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Went with the "Tear drop" style feather, but still used most of your process! Great work.
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Fascinating and very time consuming. Thanks for making this very helpful guide.
I've tried molding feathers by making an oversized feather then making a mold and using it to make feathers that i cut out, but the mold stuck to the clay too much. Therefore, my feathers were thicker than yours. I You have much more patience than me. Do you do any shading with the wing paint job? Does the paint ever fill in the cracks and lines when you don't want it to?
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Its hard to tell from the last picture but its painted with a midnight blue all the way up to a very light grey-blue.
The paint clogging up the datails is not an issue as I thin down my paints to such an extent that it never really has the chance. I use lots of thin layers to get the colour I want. The wing in this tutorial was also given a wash of thinned ink to excentuate the details as it flows into them and makes them stand out.
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Thank You! Hope to use this in a few days for a Luna sculpt I'm in the middle of.
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Oooh i'd very much like to see your take on this style of wings.
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I'm still debating on the "Feather" or "Tear Drop" Type of plumage. But it will follow your "Tutorial" quite close! Milliput is a god send! The work I'm doing now would not have come together without it! That's another big Thank you!
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That's really clever and yet extremely involved. Good luck to anyone who gets involved with this craziness. :3
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Yes, very involved. I was sculpting the wings on my Pegasus guard for about a week and half. Almost drove me insane
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Plasticard huh?! Wow... I've been doing wings the hard way :/
This is a HUGE improvement from the way I usually do it. Thank you!!!
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this is awesome! I might think of using more of this style for my wings that I draw.... hmmm.....
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Thanks, send me a link when you're done i'd like to see what you come up with.
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Thanks for the great tutorial! I've seen another artist do something the same technique but on a much larger scale with a wire armature.
I've never heard of 'Milliput' or 'Greenstuff' before. I use something very similar called Apoxie. If you're interested here's a [link] It might be a step up from what your using.
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I have heard of Apoxie, and from what I can tell it has quite similar properties as the Milliput/green stuff mix. I do really like working with Milliput but I'll try anything once
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Use what works best for you, of course. I know I found Apoxie to be superior to anything I had ever used. But I also haven't used the products you referenced either.
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I'll try any material once, if i see that stuff anywhere i'll give it a shot.
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Dude, that is awesome. I won't personally be sculpting anything like this in the near future, but this is the first thing I'll go to when I do.
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This is brilliant. Thank you for posting.
The previous approach I was using involved texturing then cutting feathers out of a thin rolled sheet of polymer clay on aluminum foil; it was difficult to support them adequately on a skeletal wire armature. I never would have guessed to use a solid armature like that. So question time: Do you sculpt onto the bottom of the armature, or do you remove the armature, and work off your wings (wing-tops)? Cause I recall your wings were double sided.
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