How to Fill Gaps and Detail Miniatures Without Putty (and Dungeons and Dragons Tiefling preview!)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- It's been a while since we had a Kitbash and Conversions video hasn't it? Well that video for how to make Tieflings is coming soon! This video sort of happened along the way. If you're like me, you might not have been able to get modeling putty to fill gaps and add details to your miniatures. Here's a quick video showing my "pretty good" solution.
Also featuring images from my "How to Make a Tiefling" Kitbash and Conversions video coming very soon!
If you make anything inspired by my crafts, I'd love to see it :)
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Why have I never heard of this, this is magic, thank you
I appreciate that! I just sort of stumbled onto it myself out of necessity
I had heard of using super glue and baking soda but this is new. Thank you for sharing this great tip!
I'm glad you like it! Thank you :)
Those are great tiefling models
Thank you! It took a while for me to figure out a kitbash I was satisfied with, but I think people will really like the video once I finish editing
Not quite on topic of this video, but you can get airdry clay in my local dollar stores for $2 Can/lb. So if you want to work with clay for modeling, it can be done very cheaply. I like to mix mine 2/3 clay to 1/3 plasticine - it's less brittle that way. I use it for bases and terrain, but you could probably use it for making largish or less detailed miniatures too. I don't think it would work well for gapfilling. Without plasticine it shrinks a bit and tends to crack when smeared over cardboard to hide the edges, but I haven't tried that particular thing with the plasticine amended stuff yet.
That's interesting, I've never really worked with clay but have been shy to because I worry about things breaking. Over the last few years I've started to drop things a lot.
I will have to give it a try sometime though, I was shy about painting for the longest time too until I finally just dove in
@@selrahcmoonandstar It's still a bit brittle. I haven't had broken bases, but I have had a couple of minis break off, and a few chips in the clay.
Seems to me like it might be easier to initially soak the paper with PVA instead of super glue, & use superglue as a final coat/sealant. Issue being superglue dries really dang fast, so you'll always be struggling to do the gap filling before it starts to cure on you.
Beyond that though, good technique! Even for folks who have access to modeling putty... that stuff actually has a shelf life once you open it, whereas PVA/superglue an be generally easily kept on the shelf.
I'll have to give that a try sometime! I've tried white PVA glue brushed on top of paper filler and details before, but then because of it's tackiness it's not easy to smooth out or carve if needed. So that's one reason I like the super glue because it hardens stiff. But I've never tried combining them both, I'll do that next time.
I definitely recommend a gel super glue because it takes a bit longer to activate vs a liquid, doesn't get on your hands as much, and seems to last a lot longer on the shelf.
Thank you! I'm glad you like the technique : )