Resin busts

[Resinman]

Anybody here into making and painting resin busts? =)

 

[Jay-BFG]

Painting, yes

 

[Resinman]

Painting, yes

Excellent! =)

 

[Steve Brodie]

painting

 

[tucoe]

painting

 

[RichardMo]

Also a painter of them

 

[Richard48]

Im a producer of resin busts.
Richard

 

[Resinman]

Im a producer of resin busts.
Richard

Do you make them for yourself or series production? Be interested in what kind of subjects you model...

 

[Peter Gillson]

Simon

I am into both sculpting and painting busts.

 

[Resinman]

Simon

I am into both sculpting and painting busts.

I've looking into doing sculpting - tried a few times but so far my efforts have been limited to bits and pieces on production busts...

 

[Peter Gillson]

Simon

I am facinated by recipients of the VC and I started off by modifying commercial busts to make them look like (or at least similar to) VC recipients, like these two:

The first is a convertion of a Hawk Miniature bust to represent A Gill VC;

photo of Albert Gill and the Hawk bust:



Photo of my conversion:



I think I should have made the face a little thinner

this one is a conversion of a Mitche's Miniature bust


... into Major Cain VC ...

 

[Resinman]

Wow! Those are excellent!

 

[monica]

paint as well,

 

[Peter Gillson]

Just so there is no misunderstanding of my post - I did not paint the two original versions of the two busts, I wish I had that level of skill.

 

[Resinman]

Just so there is no misunderstanding of my post - I did not paint the two original versions of the two busts, I wish I had that level of skill.

You're not the only one who would like to have that level of skill... I certainly do too!

 

[Richard48]

We produce mainly modern 1.10th resin busts from Falklands era.We are starting to delve into 1.12th scale with a few diverse items such as comedy series.Check out Mookies miniatures on Facebook.
Richard

 

[Resinman]

We produce mainly modern 1.10th resin busts from Falklands era.We are starting to delve into 1.12th scale with a few diverse items such as comedy series.Check out Mookies miniatures on Facebook.
Richard

I certainly shall check Mookies out! Thank you!

 

[Fenlander]

I paint them but would have no idea about sculpting or significant modifications/alterations etc.

 

[Resinman]

I paint them but would have no idea about sculpting or significant modifications/alterations etc.

I think I worded my original post wrongly - when I said make I should have said assemble. - my sculpting skills don't extend much beyond filling gaps and sometimes adding minor stuff....

 

[Richard48]

I think I worded my original post wrongly - when I said make I should have said assemble. - my sculpting skills don't extend much beyond filling gaps and sometimes adding minor stuff....

Give the putty pushing a go as it gets addictive.Start with minor conversions and get used to a putty and what suits you.I not a proffesional sculptor yet.More like a novice with much dissatisfaction at this time.
Richard