First of all great thanks to insanetrooper for thinking up of this method for making the base for the clay sculpt, It works a charm dude! Also thanks to xxcaliberxx as his helmet build is what inspired me to try this out myself, i know he didnt use this method but seeing the awesomeness of his sculpt and insane's sculpts made me want to try my hand at this.
Pepakura stage
See my plush angry bird?
Now i needed to get a mannequin head to put my sculpt onto, but im cheap and didnt wanna fork out the money for a professional one so i made one myself, anyone looking for the tut i used for it look here
I look like an idiot dont i....
now this method requires a helper and so...
heres my lovely assistant!
I then filled the tape mould of my head with expanding foam
Now i ordered a 14lb shipment of nsp chavant clay, i then melted it down half a pound at a time by cubing half a pound and melting it in a bowl in the oven. I only used 9 pounds tho for fear of the weight crushing my cheapo head cast. I stuck the head cast to a base using more expanding foam and put the helmet onto it and peeled off all the paper to reveal:
Now youll notice that the sculpt is lobsided, this is because i didnt fill the head mould properly so on one side a small section of the neck has not expanding foam in it so it just caved in completely.
I think its curious
Pepakura stage
See my plush angry bird?
Now i needed to get a mannequin head to put my sculpt onto, but im cheap and didnt wanna fork out the money for a professional one so i made one myself, anyone looking for the tut i used for it look here
I look like an idiot dont i....
now this method requires a helper and so...
heres my lovely assistant!
I then filled the tape mould of my head with expanding foam
Now i ordered a 14lb shipment of nsp chavant clay, i then melted it down half a pound at a time by cubing half a pound and melting it in a bowl in the oven. I only used 9 pounds tho for fear of the weight crushing my cheapo head cast. I stuck the head cast to a base using more expanding foam and put the helmet onto it and peeled off all the paper to reveal:
Now youll notice that the sculpt is lobsided, this is because i didnt fill the head mould properly so on one side a small section of the neck has not expanding foam in it so it just caved in completely.
I think its curious