IMPACT! MINIATURES

Bodhi · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: Stockholm Sweden

Well I order new green stuff while I still have half a package left. So even counting with two weeks shipping or something I don't run a risk of running out before the new batch arrives.
Only one available directly in Sweden are the small and very overpriced Grandma Wendy packages.

Louis X · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Paris 15

Who uses wax to sculpt ? Since the Heresy set is meant to be a wax sculpting set. I know the Americans use it a lot for big comics like figure but for 28mm ? Someone knows ?
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Nexus · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 11

Simon Egan of Forgeworld uses wax. Don't know if the rest of their design team do, nor of anyone else that does, however.

phil · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 9

look, the wax 5 is a decent tool, but it won't transform you or your work in some transcendant moment. I see it mythologized over and over and I hate to see people lay out a lot of money on a golden goose that may not live up to hopes. The rounded end is awesome for flowing fabric work, because it is narrow, rounded, and symetrical. The scimitar end is awkward. I'm glad I have one, but for me, it is a task tool. I've a box with easilly 50+ sculpting tools, made, purchased, or found and in the end, 98% of every figure I have made that anyone here would have seen was made with just one, and it isn't that this tool is so great, though it is versatile in design, but because I know every effect that I canget from it intimately through countless hours of work. Almost any tool with those hours and some skill can become a #1 tool like that, some are better t an others, though.

Personally, I would tell you that the tool on the far left of the set from andy is more useful than the wax 5, but both makes a good kit. My #1 is one of these with a grinder-narrowed spatula end.

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Bodhi · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: Stockholm Sweden

I think they were referring to the sculpting MATERIAL wax, not the Wax 5 tool (which I have so far only seen on pictures and probably won't buy- I rarely use metal tools).
I've got some wax and I've tried it. It's very soft though and from discussing with other sculptors it seems that they use a firmer type of wax probably not available in arts/crafts stores in Sweden. So I've yet to try that.
Anybody got a brand name for the best type of wax to use?

Labert · Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

I personally use just a craft knife, pin, plastic bag and a bit o' wood!
all that "pro" stuff is a waste of time for me, if i got a kit i would only use 1 tool!

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Chairface · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

Interesting tutorial on the Reaper website on how to make your own scuplting tools.

http://reapermini.com/TheCraft/27

Dark Lord · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2682

I just bought these at Dick Blick for $12.00 (the set of 12 not the set of 6 that's in the default picture)

Good deal? bad deal?

Could I have done better?
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lahatiel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 259 Location: Los Angeles

Certainly good enough. It's possible that you might have been able to find them for a buck or two less but when you're talking about that little a difference, it wouldn't have necessarily been worth the time you'd spend hunting around.

Crazycavey · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Wales

I have only scanned through here but I believe that no one has mentioned a very important tool and often overlooked:

Opposable Thumbs

and a selection of fingers.

You can buy whatever addon's you like, dentists tools, wax carvers etc. But I find they can be at the most effective as is.

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