"How thick can I make something with green stuff?" Topic

Lets say I want to make a large creature like an elephant or something. Do I use a whole glob of green stuff or is there a method of using a material or form to make the core and save on the green stuff, and decrease the drying time of such a thick miniature.

My idea is to make a large 15mm creature with like a howdah on it's back.

I use 5 minute cure hardware putty to bulk up my large armitures. I buy the cheap gritty tube type from my local DIY store.

A large 15mm creature probably is still small enough to fully make out of greenstuff. Bulking up with another product might even be more work. Of course, how large is large?

A large 28mm creature is a different matter, there you start getting pretty much volume.

Epoxy putties like green stuff don't harden by drying, but through a chemical reaction between the two parts. Thick pieces of putty actually harden faster than thin ones, though the difference is not great.

As Sparky says you can use cheaper putty from hardware stores to bulk out your armature, I also know that some people use Fimo clay for this purpose.

"large creature like an elephant"

Be sure to research your elephant species or you'll have aecurtis cackling on about how no one gets it right :)

For me the only reason to use a different putty for bulking is that it's slightly cheaper. You might want to use a coarser putty just for that reason.

You could make a 1:1 scale elephant out of Green Stuff if you wanted, it'll cure fine. It's just a lot cheaper to use a filler material. Wadded bits of tinfoil work fairly well, or you can use cheaper plumbing putties or polymer clays.