Hobby Questions
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tried a few ways to sculpt hair and I'm starting to get decent results with a multiple layer approach:
-(optional underlayer, only for thick wavy hair) form thick sausages to create a wavy substructure
-(optional underlayer for a flat hairlayer) form a flat hairlayer, cut longer and shorter stripes with a hobby knife
-thin strand superstructure to hide greenstuff 'blobiness': add thin strands of greenstuff to add to the movement of the hair
(start at the same 'root' locations as your other hairbits but drape it in different directions - lock over forehead, ...)
-(optional underlayer, only for thick wavy hair) form thick sausages to create a wavy substructure
-(optional underlayer for a flat hairlayer) form a flat hairlayer, cut longer and shorter stripes with a hobby knife
-thin strand superstructure to hide greenstuff 'blobiness': add thin strands of greenstuff to add to the movement of the hair
(start at the same 'root' locations as your other hairbits but drape it in different directions - lock over forehead, ...)
Regarding heating to reshape plastics, the only recent experience I had was with some tow ropes on an old Tamiya T34 kit which needed to be heated then bent to shape. My attempts to follow the instructions did not go well and I gave up with the whole idea as the plastic went solid, overly flexible, solid again, snap over maybe a two second period. I can see why they don't still use that technique on any newer kits.
i gave up on that specific experiment... for thin resin it works, but thick plastic is to problematic.
theoretically slowly heating a model in a controlled manner (Bain-marie) to get a 'bendable' inner temperature could work, but you'd also need a setup to take care the figurine wouldn't touch the bottom, and I'm not sure how easy it would be to 'set' it in a new angle (maybe an ice-bath?)
a bain-marie could help you slowly heat the tow rope?
It could work. But I've only ever seen it as a method on that one old kit (obviously from the early days of Tamiya as it had the holes for the motorised parts). The one tow rope I tried it on snapped like a piece of spaghetti while trying to get it into the correct shape to fit. I didn't bother with the other and decided that the tank had lost it's tow ropes somewhere.
Newer kits either use pre-shaped ropes or string on the newest kits so it really isn't likely to be something I'm ever going to experiment with again.
Newer kits either use pre-shaped ropes or string on the newest kits so it really isn't likely to be something I'm ever going to experiment with again.
I remember those bendable ropes and chains, I think the recommended method was putting them in a cup of freshly boiled water then bending them in stages. It was a faff.
(Just looked up what a bain-marie is and yeah... That but low tech)
(Just looked up what a bain-marie is and yeah... That but low tech)
25? years ago I also did historicals, but I think my technical skills were limited;
bain-marie in in short (cooking):
boil a big pot of water on the stove, place another smaller pot of water in the bigger pot without it touching the bottom.
by changing the heat in the bigger pot, you can control the temperature of the fluid in the smaller pot to just where you need it to be.
usually used for butter sauces, sabayon, desserts, ...
were you try to avoid frying the eggs in said dishes
bain-marie in in short (cooking):
boil a big pot of water on the stove, place another smaller pot of water in the bigger pot without it touching the bottom.
by changing the heat in the bigger pot, you can control the temperature of the fluid in the smaller pot to just where you need it to be.
usually used for butter sauces, sabayon, desserts, ...
were you try to avoid frying the eggs in said dishes
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