Could someone explain to me why the production models are green?
I'm pretty sure the green is the color of the material they use to sculpt the minis.
Yep...they use "green stuff" when they sculpt it. It's a blue/yellow two part epoxy you mix together to activate, sculpt, and let air cure.
Cracked me up...there is one mini above Amri on the reaper sight, the oktoberfest frauline...so when I clicked the link that was the first thing I saw...thought it was april fools or something for about half a second...
Cracked me up...there is one mini above Amri on the reaper sight, the oktoberfest frauline...so when I clicked the link that was the first thing I saw...thought it was april fools or something for about half a second...
I had the same exact thought. Maybe it's Amiri in stealth mode ;)
Thanks for the heads up on this - really happy to see this line starting to produce!!
AJC
I'm excited to see Reaper's progress!
Any word on when the new minis start rolling out?
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Yep...they use "green stuff" when they sculpt it. It's a blue/yellow two part epoxy you mix together to activate, sculpt, and let air cure.
You can get it from various places, including Games Workshop over the counter, or you could scour model railway catalogues, builders merchants,...or you could get it HERE.
The grades of 2-part epoxy differ wildly, and it can take some getting used to working it (keep tools wet) and estimating how much to mix, and how long you can leave it before it becomes unworkable, so you're best to experiment on a free sculpt, before ruining a well-loved figure.Anyone else use Green Stuff for their own models?
If so, do you find it never goes totally hard?
I've found it always stays slightly rubbery and bendable, unlike, say, Milliput, which sets like a rock. Both are more suited to different jobs, and I'll use both on the same figure.
Can anyone who creates moulds confirm if the 'greens' deform during the mould-making process? And if it's possible to take a cast (without destroying the original) from a figure that's a hybrid concoction of Green, Milliput, plastic and metal?
thewarstore.com sells it too. Generally where I get mine, as instead of a thin ribbon you get a pair of tubes.
I use greenstuff on a lot of my stuff. If you're familiar with games workshop, I play nurgle based chaos marines, nurgle based chaos daemons, and have been commissioned by the local nid player and local chaos player to do greenstuff work. The more "blue" you add the harder it sets, but yeah, it's never going to get rock hard. Largely this is beneficial, as it's not brittle. I've got a terminator that I tore the head from and replaced with seven green stuff tenticles that extend out quite a wase...dropped that go I don't know how many times, and none of the tenticles have broke...bent a little, but not broke.
I don't know a lot about casting...but I've seen online blogs where people have cast sculpts they've done. I don't think you have to ruin the miniature...but it probably depends on how you go about it. warseer.com has some good resources for casting...you might have to join and ask arround a little, but they're there.
November you say? Beautiful...that way I'll have some birthday money to blow on more minis!
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Yep...they use "green stuff" when they sculpt it. It's a blue/yellow two part epoxy you mix together to activate, sculpt, and let air cure.You can get it from various places, including Games Workshop over the counter, or you could scour model railway catalogues, builders merchants,...or you could get it HERE.
The grades of 2-part epoxy differ wildly, and it can take some getting used to working it (keep tools wet) and estimating how much to mix, and how long you can leave it before it becomes unworkable, so you're best to experiment on a free sculpt, before ruining a well-loved figure.Anyone else use Green Stuff for their own models?
If so, do you find it never goes totally hard?
I use it fairly frequently. Depending on how you mix it, it may stay relatively rubbery. You need to understand the original usage of greenstuff. Before becoming the sculpting material of choice, it was simply a humble 2-part plumber's epoxy. For that use, a small amount of flex and pliability is very useful. If you want a sculpting material that can hold a better hard edge, try brown-stuff. It's similar, but is a different formula enabling it to be more easily sanded and filed. There is also Milliput that you mentioned.
I've found it always stays slightly rubbery and bendable, unlike, say, Milliput, which sets like a rock. Both are more suited to different jobs, and I'll use both on the same figure.Can anyone who creates moulds confirm if the 'greens' deform during the mould-making process? And if it's possible to take a cast (without destroying the original) from a figure that's a hybrid concoction of Green, Milliput, plastic and metal?
While I don't make molds myself, I've been out to Reaper's factory a number of times and seen how it's done. A good mold-maker is able to safely create the mold without damaging the original sculpt. Sometimes after a master mold is made, the green will be sent back to the sculptor to be converted into a slightly different version of the figure.
From what I understand, plastic isn't used for miniature sculpting as it will melt and deform during the high heat and pressure conditions of creating the mold. Metal, greenstuff, brownstuff, milliput, and the like are often used together depending on the physical properties the sculptor is looking for when creating the figure.
/Paul