Sculpy Question

Mursk · Post by **Mursk** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:04 am

For my Lego based Story (set in a Fuedal Japanese theme) I am making many Nezumi Warriors (Japanese for Rodent) which will be the sort of Thieves and Grave-Robbers of that current era, I have mounted a Sculpy Bust onto a Lego Torso and began sculpting in the details on the first Warrior.

Since I only have experience in Clay and not Baking Sculpy I do not know if I should take the torso off and do it this way.. or Sun Bake it like some suggest, also.. how can I produce many copies of the bust to save on resculpting.

Blasterman · Post by **Blasterman** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:00 pm

You can also use a hair dryer, or carefully boil the piece.

If you ever decide to boil something, try to use some kind
of basket or even a large ladle so the piece doesn't bang
around in the pot. Obviously, be careful with the water.

Bust copies - best way would be to pour rubber molds of
some kind(I'm not the expert with this, others are), or
possibly make a "push-mold" from clay(sculpey). Of course,
you'll need to keep the bust design fairly simple to do this.
And a simple bust would probably look better with Lego anyway.

The alternative would be to hand make each one, which
would be time consuming, but they would be unique.

Hope this helps somewhat, and good luck with your project.

Mursk · Post by **Mursk** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:40 pm

Well, my Plan was to make atleast 4 or so differing bust pieces and then 2 unique busts for the (special) sigfigs. but I would like to have atleast 20 or so total when you put them all together, I have some Rubber Mold that I can pour and set for the piece but I do not know what to cast the new Busts with, i've heard Resin is especially brittle on small pieces, and ofcourse you need to Melt Plastic so that will not work.

Mursk · Post by **Mursk** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:49 pm

Can anyone help?

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:25 am

a while back i was looking into doing some casting (i am still making the parts i want to cast) and i saw some stuff called alumilite,and it looked pretty interesting in that it set up in five minutes, and wasnt brittle at all. It also came in many different colors, and even had aluminum. so you could sand your parts to make them shine like metal.
Eventually I want to try this, but currently I am broke.

(or close enough to broke not to matter)
keep me posted dude!

Mursk · Post by **Mursk** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:35 am

I'll have to look into it, i'm wondering who i'll manage a tail however..

Red Bean · Post by **Red Bean** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:58 pm

Once you hardened your prototypes and are satisfied with the shape, you might try something like these:

http://www.sculpey.com/Products/product ... ticlay.htm
http://www.warmplastic.com/

Your result won't look as nice as the ones shown in the website though (it'll most definitely contain air holes and stuffs), so it's not recommended for mass-producing. But since you only want a few, it'll be easy enough for you to 'clean up' each ones individually with epoxy and sandpapers. Good luck!!

R. B.
visit my website: www.redbeanstudio.net