> More KV ships have been sculpted, but I have no idea when Jon will
> badly wrong with the mould-making they might not appear at all).
How are these ships sculpted anyway? I know that GHQ models are sculped in a
bigger scale and then scaled down using some sort of magic machine. Or do you
just sculpt them in their final size. I am just curious as some models have
teensy weensy details.
Cheers,
> More KV ships have been sculpted, but I have no idea when Jon will
If Oerjan doesn't mind me jumping in and answering for him:
All the FT minis (Oerjan's, mine, the original CMD ones etc) are done
actual-size, in styrene plastic (sheet, rod and strip plastic). All the
tiny details are added from tiny slivers of plastic strip etc.! It's not
that hard, just a bit fiddly and time-consuming!!
> If Oerjan doesn't mind me jumping in and answering for him:
That's interesting -- a friend of mine did a little bit of sculpting for
Stan Johansen, and he was told that everything had to be metal, or epoxy
putty. Plastic and such wouldn't make it though the process of making the
production molds.
Stan may well be working with older stuff, of course.
> If Oerjan doesn't mind me jumping in and answering for him:
That's true if you put the masters straight into high-temp vulcanising
black rubber moulds; we use a low-temp silicone mould first (still
vulcanised in a press - it's not cold-pour RTV silicone - but at a much
lower temp and pressure than black nitrile rubber) which the plastic masters
survive, then the metal castings from this mould go into black rubber
production moulds.
For figure work, the sculptors still use epoxy putty and the master goes
straight into black rubber.