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Putting hair on figures
long_tom
Illinois, United States
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Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 08:36 AM UTC
Has anyone done this, and if so, how? Thank you.
GeraldOwens
Florida, United States
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Posted: Saturday, October 04, 2008 - 01:13 AM UTC
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Has anyone done this, and if so, how? Thank you.
Hair can be depicted as a mass, but not as individual strands (strands aren't really visible in small scales, anyway). Use epoxy putty, and sculpt with a wet toothpick or some similar tool.
On very large scale figures, I have seen some attempts to depict strands of hair, even body hair on arms or legs, using fibers of various kinds attached with small amounts of clear fixative, but I wouldn't care to try it myself.
nexus7
Madrid, Spain / Espaņa
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Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008 - 09:40 PM UTC
Do the general hair shape with putty, maybe add some groves, but the real look is achieved with the painting, frst with a dark coat, and then with thin lines of the colour you want, in the direction of the hair(works really nice with brown base with intense yellow hair lines)
endrju007
Wojewodztwo Podkarpackie, Poland
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 02:03 AM UTC
Hi
Depicting hair other way then putty is rather impossible: human hair is about 50μm in diameter. in 1/35 scale it should be about 1,5μm: this is diameter of cigarette smoke particle.
Maybe we will be supported by nanotechnologies soon
Andrzej
Depicting hair other way then putty is rather impossible: human hair is about 50μm in diameter. in 1/35 scale it should be about 1,5μm: this is diameter of cigarette smoke particle.
Maybe we will be supported by nanotechnologies soon
Andrzej
NebLWeffah
Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 03:02 AM UTC
I've seen hair done on 1/35th figures using flocking (aka velvet flocking or flocking powder), but it's not very convincing. Best to stick to sculpting with putty.
Bob
Bob