I am going to mount my first cape buffalo. My question is do some buffs have wrinkles all the way around the neck and some dont. As I am noticing in the forms being sculpted. I dont see the 10 or 12 wrinkles encirling the neck in my reference Also what is the best way to rebuild the wrinkles below the eye is clay ok? Afraid they my pull out during drying
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I use clay, you just have to keep working them til they're right. Check them daily to make sure they don't pull. Also try using clay but letting it dry up some before pulling your hide over, that way you're letting some of the moisture out first. Hope it helps.
I have heard of using pipecleaners to form the wrinckles. Not sure how to attach to form, but you may be able to come up with something.
Good Luck,
Brady
Apply glue/hide pasteto the inside surface of the face and also to the form surface itself, before taxiing the skin.
Apply glue/hide pasteto the inside surface of the face and also to the form surface itself, before taxiing the skin.
Obtain a photo from your client...match up what wrinkles the specimen had in life OR use the wrinkle lines of the skin to reproduce these important details.
Apply glue/hide paste to the inside surface of the face as well as to the form surface before taxiing the skin. This doubling of the glue will ensure that you get good adhesion as well as helping adhere the detail to the sculpted form or clay surface detail.
To make sure that the wrinkles stay in place, especially if you have to leave it over the weekend, buy some cotton clothesline
rope, I use the cheap kind that is less than 1/4" in diameter. Cut rope to the length you need. I like to feather the ends by fuzzing the material so that there is not a harsh blunt end to the rope, this blunt end is sometimes left in the detail surface and is not natural. Using a T Pin in each end, or all along the rope, depending on how stubborn the skin is...pin the detail that you want held in place into the skin. Remove the rope in 24-48 hours and work the detail in by using a rounded end modeling tool. This will in turn force clay or glue through the T pin holes and fill them up so you won't have to fill them in when finishing to paint the detail. I use the small T pins for this type of work.