Hi,
yesterday i finaly received my chavant clay shipment. To make things short, i like modeling a lot more then pepakura. The biggest problem with that is that,
in order to make the armor fit, you have to make a mold of your own bodyparts. With pepakura it is relativly easy to scale, because you don´t loose much
exept a few hours and a few sheets of cardstock, while sculpting can take days and weeks.
Why i chose chavant.
Chavant clay has a good amount of vax in it and it can be poured if heated to about 80 degrees celsius.(think of honey and you get the idea)
It is a little pricey on first glance, but it is non hardening and reusable.
It comes in blocks of 10lbs (about 4,5 kg)
In order to get a ruff basemodle of clay, i did a low-res pep first, and glued it onto a pizza box i had from yesterday. Glued in a little peace of paper
to seal the bottom off aswell.
I secured the angled part of the bottom with a peace of cardbord, to keep the whole thing upright (its probably not much fun to have melted clay on your floor)
The clay can be heated on a kitchen stove, it smells slightly like tar (its oilbased) so its a good idea to open the window first.
After everything is melted, you end up with a light grey goo that you can poor direcly into the "pep-mold".
the orange thing is a bottlecap. After i poured the first inch into the mould, i inserted this bottle to "hollow it out".
For the upper part, i layed it down and filled the rest up...
After a few hours you can peel of the paper, and you got yourself a basemesh.
Now the fun part beginns.
...after a few minutes of modeling...
I keep you guys updated,
have fun!
yesterday i finaly received my chavant clay shipment. To make things short, i like modeling a lot more then pepakura. The biggest problem with that is that,
in order to make the armor fit, you have to make a mold of your own bodyparts. With pepakura it is relativly easy to scale, because you don´t loose much
exept a few hours and a few sheets of cardstock, while sculpting can take days and weeks.
Why i chose chavant.
Chavant clay has a good amount of vax in it and it can be poured if heated to about 80 degrees celsius.(think of honey and you get the idea)
It is a little pricey on first glance, but it is non hardening and reusable.
It comes in blocks of 10lbs (about 4,5 kg)
In order to get a ruff basemodle of clay, i did a low-res pep first, and glued it onto a pizza box i had from yesterday. Glued in a little peace of paper
to seal the bottom off aswell.
I secured the angled part of the bottom with a peace of cardbord, to keep the whole thing upright (its probably not much fun to have melted clay on your floor)
The clay can be heated on a kitchen stove, it smells slightly like tar (its oilbased) so its a good idea to open the window first.
After everything is melted, you end up with a light grey goo that you can poor direcly into the "pep-mold".
the orange thing is a bottlecap. After i poured the first inch into the mould, i inserted this bottle to "hollow it out".
For the upper part, i layed it down and filled the rest up...
After a few hours you can peel of the paper, and you got yourself a basemesh.
Now the fun part beginns.
...after a few minutes of modeling...
I keep you guys updated,
have fun!