I need help with my hair.

[Ogrebane]

Well not really my hair although it is long and usually unkempt. No heres the problem. I am doing an ogre army and its based on the bretonnians. AAAnnyway I have 3 butchers who are the (ahem) damsels. I have one near finished that looks like this

The other two I want to do either dread locks or curly/wavey untidy hair do. Im at a loss tho. Ive tried to do it a few times but hasnt turned out too well.

So anybody got some ideas on how to do dreads or curley hair.

 

[Arjay]

Can\'t answer your question but this particular miniature\'s looking fantastic thus far...

 

[Einion]

That ogre look brill!

Okay, wavy hair or dreads? I\'d approach each quite differently as a rule. I\'ll presume you\'re using GS so for the wavy hair I\'d start with a blob of putty roughly cut to shape and block in the basic flow with some larger tools. Then it\'s just a matter of working on it with smaller tools until you get down to the smaller details, in a sort of refining process. I use pretty much the same technique for most hair actually, in any of the three putties I commonly use - Kneadatite, MagicSculp or Apoxie Sculpt.

For dreads I would choose to use Kneadatite because you need the stickiness and the waxy consistency. Mix the putty and put it aside for about an hour to partially set (or give it a good heating and come back to it in ten or fifteen minutes) then cut off little pieces from the blob and roll them on your palm or the table to the right thickness, flatten it a bit and give it a small twist; you\'ll want it a little longer than the finished dread as you lose a little during application. Pick up one end of the roll with the tip of a fine tool - I\'ll often use a large needle for this - and smoosh the end of the roll into the scalp, press out the edges to give a good join and then trim any excess. Rinse and repeat a dozen times and you should have a decent mass of dreadlocks You may have to do this in more than one stage to fill the scalp area without disturbing the hair that\'s already in place - thinking about it I might choose to do alternate bits at each stage (leave gaps you\'ll fill with the second application if that makes sense).

Hope that helps, although I suspect it might be a little, \"Wah?\" This is easier to show than describe (like most things!) but hair is one of those things you get a feel for by practicing.

Einion

 

[supervike]

oh my goodness...

that \'damsel\' made me do the old spit take with my coffee....

I\'ve seen bad porno magazines with this type of lady...lollol

I can\'t help you with the sculpting, but it sounds as though Einion has got you sorted out anyhow.

I can\'t wait to see this army, it sounds incredible!

 

[Ogrebane]

Thanks einion. Thats sort of what I was doing except the letting it set for a while. I\'ll give it another go.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by supervike
that \'damsel\' made me do the old spit take with my coffee....

I\'ve seen bad porno magazines with this type of lady...lollol

Information Overload ! ! !

I\'ve told you before I have a Visually Orientated Cortex....Stop putting those kinds of images in my head, when I\'ve just eaten.
lollollollollol

 

[supervike]

I can\'t talk a pretty picture, can\'t I?lol

 

[Ogrebane]

And I always thought you Iowa farmboys were pretty nieve. Well I guess I just cant trust American tellivision anymore.

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
And I always thought you Iowa farmboys were pretty nieve. Well I guess I just cant trust American tellivision anymore.

lollollol

It gets cold here, and winter is long.

So, when do we get to see the rest of these gals?

 

[Ogrebane]

Well heres a pretty picture for you. I have done all the girly lumpy bits and just need to clothe then. Then I have to do hair and extras and there done. Hopefully 2-3 days depending on how I do the hair. So if you like fat bald naked chicks I can post a wip now.

 

[Einion]

This isn\'t really curly hair but I thought it might help to see the kind of results for longer hair that the refining method achieves:

Thank goodness I did this in GS, otherwise you wouldn\'t be able to make out any detail!

Einion

 

[Orb]

with a conk like that I can guess who that will be, Einion......one of your own heads? On the Andrea D\'Artanagn bod? (did I mention the hair looks great?)

 

[Einion]

Cyrano yes, yep, yep and nope, thanks

Einion

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by Ogrebane
So if you like fat bald naked chicks I can post a wip now.

Um...How does one answer that without sounding freakish?

WIP would be cool though!

@Einion...Cyrano looks great!

 

[Ogrebane]

@einion that hair looks great. Its not exactly what i want but I think I can do something similar that will work.
OK Vikey here are the other 2 ladies?
As you can see one has hair but Im think of covering it with the wavy hair. The bald one I want to have dread locks and I will paint her ebon.

I\'ll post a few wips if I get it figured