Need help/advice

thedudewhosadude · Post by **thedudewhosadude** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:46 am

I'm making mini-sculptures of all of the phases + Cubia. How do you reccomend I put Skeith together and make it still look neat? Because he's made up of 9 seperate parts, not including his staff. I'm making him with clay, but i have no idea how to assemble him. Any advice is greatly accepted.

Nebu · Post by **Nebu** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:53 am

maybe take toothpicks or somethin...

oh, show us pictures when you are done... I'm really curious about this...

Krono · Post by **Krono** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:55 am

use wire as a skeleton and build around that... that's how I'd do it... ofcourse if I did it, it'd probably suck... but that's not the point...

Nebu · Post by **Nebu** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:56 am

maybe you could use string...

Krono · Post by **Krono** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 2:58 am

the string is too floppy, it wouldn't make as good of a holding up thing as the wire...

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:14 am

The way he is built, you can use clear plastic rods to connect the pieces.

As this is clay, you'd have to put the plastic rods in AFTER you've fired it, but you can do that, if it's not too heavy.

You can purchase these at most hobby stores, usually near the model building supplies.

What you can also do, if you're so masochistically inclined, is to attach everything with the rods while the clay is still wet, let it dry, remove them, fire them, then cast them out of resin. Since it will have shrunk, you will need to make the holes for the plastic rods a little bigger (you can do that with a drill), and then paint the resin, attach with the rods, and voila!

Garage kit!

thedudewhosadude · Post by **thedudewhosadude** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:10 pm

thanks everyone, i'll try to have skeith done by the end of the month.

EDIT: Due to a lack of supplies on hand and cash, i will currently only be able to make Skeith's staff, and possibly Cubia's Core. But I will not abandon this project >.< I will try to get as many phases and weapons done as possible within money restraints. Next month i will have refreshed supplies, so currently only Skeith's staff is in production.