Help with blu-stuff moulding and colour schemes.

So I have been having a really hard time painting my Stormcast.



This was my last attempt. But when painting, the mentholated spirits and dettol I had previously used, had not cleaned the miniatures enough. At first I thought I could live with it, but as the project progressed it started to drive me mad. I then decided that I had to strip them again, and get them as clean as possible this time.

So I used Bartoline clean spirit. Its non-toxic and non-flammable. I had very low expectations of it working.

After using it once, I will never use, Dettol or meth spirits again!

With Dettol, I always got the gooey, sticky paint that was left in the crevices. And with mentholated spirits, it always leaves a weird flaky residue, that I could, not get completely rid of.



This stuff cleaned them all the way back to the primer. And only took a few hours, with very little scrubbing.

So as you can see, my Stormcast have forgotten to bring their weapons with them. So I thought it might be fun to try and mould some of my own.



The problem is, my modest expectations of sculpting a few heads and hammers, has been met with ass-cheeks results!

I have tried watching some tutorials online, about how to create two part moulds. But the problem is, mine is covered with flash. And its difficult/impossible to cut out the flash, without also taking away the parts you want to keep.

The biggest question I have is, how do I make the milliput cast, the right thickness? so that I can stick the two parts together?


Ok, now for the paint scheme question.





I done the glazing with Naggroth night shade, over zenithol primer. It was fun and very fast to paint.

The problem is, it looks crap. It feels like it might be nice colour scheme for another faction.

But I am starting to think, Stormcast might need to be gold.

The problem is, the gold way of painting, is extremely long winded and tedious compared to other colours, that can be glazed on with the air brush.

Has anybody had any success painting Stormcast?

 

Use less putty. Try putting the form together with a little putty, if that is not enough, add a bit. Trial and error. If you have enough putty in, add a little water to the form so you get a clean and smooth finish. Add enough pressure when you press the halves together.

 

I saw a really cool looking Stormcast that was painted up like the Statue of Liberty. As for blue stuff moulding, I have also been having some trouble with getting the right amount of fill in the two part moulds so that you don't have negative fill or overfill but I have discovered that if you pop stuff out of the mould a little early (not too early!) it is tough enough to handle you slicing bits off of it with a knife, but rubbery enough that you can trim is with a lot more ease than later on.

Very useful for some things, and it is bendy enough that you can repose things a bit, my test for this was a spaceship I wanted to use as a twisted wreck.