Biggle Bear's 10mm rebellion

I’ve been using air hardening clay for the first time in aaaaages and the lack of detail is as bad as I remember. But I noticed that unset clay doesn’t like to bond to set clay so easily. It takes patience and a drop of water to get the edges joined up.

With that in mind I thought if I could utilise that somehow. Soooo…


I used some clay to make a mould of a 10mm mini that I made and left it on as the clay set. The skull I pressed onto a skull and carefully took it away straight away. After these moulds set I pressed in a tiny amount of clay and took them away straight away.

The new copies need to set still but I am feeling hopeful that they will turn out well. Not for highly declaimed things but rank and file models or skulls that are going to become a small part of a terrain piece. And this clay responds well to superglue so far.
 
Sooo…


A whole lot of sharpness is lost with the clay copy. I’m not happy about the potato face. But if it makes the difference between playing and not playing I think it is ok. They are only 10mm tall after all. And with solid gang colours and a system of identifying weapons, I think it would work.

And it would have helped to paint the bandana in the right place.
 
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sooo…. I have churned out a bunch of 10mm scale terrain from air drying clay and textured paint. I thought some castle like ruins would work for 40k and fantasy. And I painted some off cuts and paper from my sketch pad. I painted one side road and the other side mud path flanked by grass, so that I can decorate the board as fantasy or sci-fi as I please.

 
It’s not 10mm but I am making a battletech mini and terrain piece as a gift to a colleague.




After talking to Chat GPT I decided to make it an industrialmech as that is less popular and therefore he is less likely to have a better model to compare it with. E.g I can better use my creative licence.

I had that command centre thing at the top from an old toy, parts of which are on a different project, and the idea for a hanger bay was just to have something of significance and easy to make to the right scale.
 
I noticed that you like to scratch build stuff and as this is the smaller scale thread, it did remind me of the mesh armies video I saw on YouTube a few years back; so I thought I’d look it up again and post it here for you as you might enjoy it.

 
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