sculpting a large mushroom

Yetie

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I started something last night I\'ve wanted to do for ages, sculpting a mushroom for a night Gobo shaman to stand on.

I\'m using milliput and its doing the job for my test piece, so far I\'ve done the stem and the base for the cap of the mushroom . Its come out really well, better than I thought it would in fact it only took one attempt and about 15 mins to do. So I\'ve left it alone to cure etc and I\'m left with the dilema of how to make the dome of the cap, I\'ve got 2 ideas so far, 1 cover a light bulb in cling film and use that to shape the dome, 2 drill and pin curved over paper clips to use as a support to then mold over the top.

All the detail such as the underneath and the sort of lip of the cap are going to be done is GS as I dont think milliput will take the detail too well. Any ideas etc any one has will be a real help, as I say this is\'nt the final piece just a test run to see what I can do. Cheers in advance!!!
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Yetie

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the mushroom its self is quite large the stem takes up most of the space on a base this size
http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=Individual&code=99229999034&orignav=9
and the base of the cap is about 2.5 cm across
 

Shawn R. L.

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I just got done doing a very large mushroom (watch for it on Armorcast.com) and what I did was to make it out of wood, carve,file and sand it to the desired shape then put a very thin layer of Magic Sculpt over that. You will need to paint the wood with a gloss coat of paint to get the putty to stick. Putty dosen\'t stick to bare wood.
 

myke

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I just took some household electrical wire (12 gauge? way thicker than paper clips) and made a spiral out of it (think cinnamon roll) and had the center be where the wire came up perpendicular to the spiral. Then I squished greenstuff on it. This worked well because I could kind of shape the spiral as well so it wasn\'t entirely flat.

I can tell you I was glad I didn\'t have to fill the entire volume with greenstuff, that\'s for sure. And mine is not even as big as your sounds. See:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/46063
 
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