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Timatae In reply to Soobel [2014-10-10 22:57:15 +0000 UTC]

1/87 is INSANE. I make these ponies to a rough scale of 1/12th, (from the figurine size, not 'actual pony' size) because my Mum is a miniaturist who tends to work in that scale, and it meant I could take them to miniature shows with her and sell them there.
That being said, I have made 1/48th scale chickens. Goddam they were tiny.

I prefer to bake between each part than use a wire frame. They're so small they have no need for them, and don't offer any extra stability. Since I have a mould for the body shape, I bake after that, then apply mane, tail, horn, wings, etc and bake again.

That being said, I might be using a little wire to do discord, because his tallness means a lot of weight on the tiny amount of clay that is his feet. But the secret is to use tails and such to counter balance. (Like Twilight and Fluttershy above)

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Soobel In reply to Timatae [2014-10-12 12:34:31 +0000 UTC]

Different worlds and different scales. I dont know nothing about figurine scale standards. 1/87 is largest inroom railway scale what i know, 1/43 maybe too but needs very big rooms. Larger are garden railway sizes.
Actually my ponies are not in 1/87, they are too big for dalmatian dog sized ponies. But their houses must be have same size with human model houses on the other railway layout modules then are my ponies a bit bigger.
I hope to make unprecedented effect with those ponies on railway layout: 2cm tall people have microscopic faces without look but my bug-sized ponies have eyes and waches me. If they stands in groups on Ponyville streets and waches customers of exhibitions...

Baking multiple times something new for me - some friends told me that is bad idea. But other sculptors doing it without problems. Look like that does sculpting more easy. Anyway i must use wire because my fingers are too fat and clumsy, that are visible on my Lyra, BonBon and Rose, what i had make without wireframe. They looks ugly

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Timatae In reply to Soobel [2014-10-12 23:37:20 +0000 UTC]

Maybe make one with a wire frame, work on it until it;s perfect, then take a mould from it so you don't have to start from scratch each time?
And baking multiple times is fine, as long as you don't do it for the full stated time it needs at the end. I bake mine for only 5 minutes so it's hard enough for me to not knock anything out of place while adding detail. When done I bake it for the full 15 minutes so it's rock solid :]

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Soobel In reply to Timatae [2014-10-26 16:43:24 +0000 UTC]

Super sculpey is really good clay and i measured time: wireframe gets 20 min and pony with multiple baking - 1hr. I m  not sure that molds make it easier and faster. Furthermore wireframe are glued into pen-sized wood stick and pony are easy to paint with holding that stick.

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Soobel In reply to Timatae [2014-10-16 13:06:55 +0000 UTC]

I dont know, what is easier, using wireframe or molds. Most hard sequence was manes and tails and painting and adding dustpiece-sized ears. If i bake a bald pony, then may be adding tail and hair are easier.
Finally i find in Estonia a shop, where sell super sculpey. Soon i test, its that better than fimo and cernit (i like more fimo than cernit, cernit was too hard)

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Timatae In reply to EventideCreatures [2014-10-09 19:32:21 +0000 UTC]

I sure do! As long as they're not too highly detailed, or you don't mind me simplifying them.

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