• Simple Slate

    Making Sculpey SlateI met up with Wappellious at a recent con and we talked about slate bases. I've been experimenting with the milliput slate techniques, but what I've wanted to do is give a better layered effect. What we ended up thinking about was sandwiching Sculpey and Super Sculpey. As they have different properties, they'll break in more realistic ways. Roll out two approximately equivalent amounts of Sculpey and Super Sculpey. Stack them together, and continue to roll them flat and sandwich them together so you end up with several layers of Sculpey and Super Sculpey. Once you get enough layers (I think 16, or 4 folds) bake it in the oven like the directions say. Try not to make the sculpey too thin, as it won't break but instead bend. You can always stick a knife blade and separate layers apart if you want a thinner piece after it bakes. Break apart a piece. If the sculpey bends rather than breaks, you can stick it in the freezer or ice water for a little while to make it more brittle. You might be able to peel apart layers with your fingernail. By removing parts of single layers you can exaggerate the "slate" appearance. Now you have a good piece you can use however you need to; the piece below is a quick drybrush job to demonstrate how the slate will look painted. This example piece is smaller than 2 cm x 4 cm. One benefit of this method is that it's quick -- you can speed up the cooling period by dropping the sculpey in cold water. You can probably have working slate in 30 minutes, unlike the hours required if you use milliput. Also, one benefit is that this looks more like slate than the milliput method. Good luck!
    Comments 15 Comments
    1. QuietiManes's Avatar
      QuietiManes -
      You can view the page at http://www.coolminiornot.com/article...ple-slate&
    1. swiftbrooke's Avatar
      swiftbrooke -
      i'm not a cool 'base maker' but i think this technique works well. compliments
    1. gremlare's Avatar
      gremlare -
      Fantastic, seem like something so obvious and yet here you are reminding us it exists outside of our imagination. Great photos and expanations.
    1. Wappellious's Avatar
      Wappellious -
      Ditto on the Fantastic!

      That is really amazing, and will be much better than me continually stealing the neighbor's landscaping slate rocks! Those made some neat molds, but they inevitably looked too much alike. This technique will be perfect.

      You are a true genius!!
    1. Trevor's Avatar
      Trevor -
      A simple but very effective technique, nice one.
    1. airhead's Avatar
      airhead -
      Sa-wweeeet
    1. ipaintminis's Avatar
      ipaintminis -
      looks really amazing!

      way to think outside the box!
    1. Grumb's Avatar
      Grumb -
      Excellent Temperance. Airhead baked some up this weekend and we were playing with it at GrailQuestCon, It looks really nice on a base!
      Cheers, Grumb
    1. Xavier's Avatar
      Xavier -
      Great tutorial. Visuals are excellent solution is very creative.
    1. Dragonsreach's Avatar
      Dragonsreach -
      A good relativley simple method of achieving a great effect. Now to just find the products in the UK to try it.
    1. DaN's Avatar
      DaN -
      It's a pretty good idea if you live somewhere where natural resources are thin 'on the ground' lol

      But seems very expensive, although I'm lucky I live in an area where I can just pick slate or shale up :P
    1. flashlight warrior's Avatar
      flashlight warrior -
      wow, thats way easier than sculpting slate out of green stuff!
    1. sphincter man's Avatar
      sphincter man -
      very nice! unfortunately im finding it hard to get my hands on scupley and super sculpey but im trying and when i get some im definately trying this out! thanks!
    1. sphincter man's Avatar
      sphincter man -
      really very nice, im trying it right away!
    1. warpaint's Avatar
      warpaint -
      Looking good but it always makes me laugh seeing how people try to "make" slate. Perhaps I'm just lucky, as I live in the Lake District and slate is one of the most abundant natural resources - I just walk out of my door, pick up some slate and glue a model to it
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