Help with "Bulking a Hulk"

[tamato]

Anyone have some advice for me on how to beef up the armature a lot so I dont have to use 20 lbs of Sculpey?

I'm looking for another option besides a ton of aluminum foil. Something to get me 80 percent there before I start with the Sculpey.

Please help a "noob" out.
Thanks!

Here's a shot of what I have so far, and one with the body sketched in....

[Voshizle@gmail.]

You can always use blocks of wood cut into the rough shapes you need.

[tamato]

Originally Posted by Voshizle@gmail.

You can always use blocks of wood cut into the rough shapes you need.

Thanks for the quick reply!

I had thought of that and may give it a go, I was hoping there was some kind of Styrofoam or something like it, that would be easy to carve and withstand the heat when baking the finished piece, have you heard of anything like that?

[Voshizle@gmail.]

You're welcome. I don't know of any styrofoams that will work with the heat, maybe MAYBE (don't quote me on it, maybe ask Jesse, I think he works with it) you could try balsa foam. I think this has come up before though to no avail.

[Alaneye]

What's wrong with using foil?

[Voshizle@gmail.]

I was kind of wondering the same thing...

[Vince-Vell]

Dont use wood, in a oven it will split and expand.

Other option is aves epoxi sculpt. I have baked that stuff before with sculpty and wasnt a issue. But i never baked anything major or big just basic base items for statues to stand on.

[adee]

Isn't aves pricey?

Tin foil worked well for me.

[tamato]

Thanks all, I am going the foil route, I was just being lazy It's a ton of foil, but it's coming along nicely.

Thanks again!

[Alaneye]

Good man, foil is the tried and trusted method. Making an armature is always a bind, but I don't think there is probably much time to be saved even if you were to find a material you could carve... carving, scrunching up foil, all takes time. Good luck with the sculpture.

Al