Sculpting my FIRST MINI!

[@ModernSynthesist]

DUDE! So glad you attempted this and recorded it! And good to see that my videos were helpful. As for putty sticking to armatures, protip is to add a thin later of putty to the wire, let that set, then sculpt on that. Also, I'm not a fan of Milliput. Much better to use Apoxie Sculpt for putty armatures. And, yes, the spoon tool is definitely the best thing since sliced bread ♥

[@LG-dl9mm]

The algos are working their magic, I was binging your vids a couple of days ago great stuff! Looking forward to more!

[@MrStatistx]

I am a total noob, but I can already agree on the milliput. The little stuff that I did was far easier with magic sculpt or greenstuff. The milliput just kinda got grainy and fell apart by the slightest wrong movement.

[@thehobbygit281]

@@MrStatistx With milliput you want to use plenty of water. But I tend to use it just for understructure, basically filling in the shape before details as Miniac does here (it's less hurtful on the wallet than doing the same with greenstuff or procreate). If you don't like using milliput though, try Brownstuff. It's much tougher than greenstuff as you sculpt (I use it for rocks, solid forms and understructure on occasion). It's more expensive than milliput but it's a nice medium between the milliput's strength and the greenstuff's more pliable sculpting texture. Brownstuff can be brittle when it dries though, so get some practice with it. With limbs and stuff, always consider armature strengthening underneath with wire or paperclips. It's all about practice! Get used to how the materials react to your sculpting, get a feel for them and sooner or later you'll be using what you need for each task more or less on instinct. Happy sculpting!

[@nicolastousignant9160]

You can mix miliput and greenstuff together to get a hybrid of both as well. Its all epoxy putty in the end

[@GTheHypersapien]

Yeah Milliput from the little use I've had with it just doesnt compare to green stuff I need to get some apoxie to play with

[@jamesbecker7175]

As a ttrpg GM I’d slap that demon down on my game table with a ton of pride... truly excellent job, regardless of first attempt or not.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Dude. You should be super proud of this. It’s so freaking hard and this came out stupid good for your first attempt. I know from my limited sculpting experience I couldn’t do it that well. Also, I’m taking credit for that Hellraiser reference 😉

[@VillainousMuse]

The most important thing to remember is: We were all bad at everything we are good at, when we started. Don't be afraid to be bad at something new. I may invest in some sculpting stuff myself to concept out referential material for my comic because your video here helped me realize that beginners shouldn't be synonymous with quitters. Thank you for that lesson, this is why I keep coming back here :)

[@jekster]

Also, remember that you can do something and enjoy it without being amazing or the best at it.

[@incognitoatunknown2702]

That is some serious Craftman wisdom right there.

[@drfishynoooo9960]

Taco Demon has to be you're next mini to produce. Pleeeeeeeease.

[@Minostirrite]

I'd buy that shit ! 32mm evil eyes typed minis are like non-existant if you talk about a good scuplt.

[@Hepabytes]

The (im)mortal enemy of the Banana Knight

[@eXileLies]

Working in stages, using different mixtures of Greenstuff for different stages of the modeling-process and pre-curing the Greenstuff before using it are probably the most important lessons i made when starting to sculpt / convert minis with Greenstuff.

[@sub2willne168]

He protect He attack But most importantly He Miniac

[@Boldenone17]

Finally you dug into most fun and enjoyable process of modeling world.

[@davidbrown4849]

If you want to fix miliput to a fiddly armature you can start it with a small dab of superglue to hold it in place and then sculpt the rest to the desired shape. A miliput-greenstuff mix will also retain some of the stickiness of the greenstuff to adhere to fiddly armatures. Instead of the oven, you can hold your work in progress right up to a desk lamp to heat-cure it quickly (pliers or long tweezers recommended).

[@the_after_hours]

Wow, amazing job! Can't believe this is your first dive into the world of sculpting. Thanks for your videos. They're really helpful, especially since I've only just started to paint miniatures and I'm definitely overwhelmed by the hours and hours of content you could watch on KZbin just for beginners' tutorials. So really, thank you for keeping your videos both educational and entertaining! Keep it up! Best greets from Germany!

[@finkmonkeyful]

Very fun. Well done Miniac. Glad to see you took the plunge, tried something new and out of your comfort zone, and shared the experience.

[@Welank]

Hahaha, PVP Geeks asked for channels to work with and I reccomended yours! Idk if I was the reason, but I am glad it worked out for both parties.

[@minimishapsgames894]

New hobbyist here, long time follower, big fan. Just started painting a couple of weeks ago and wanted to thank you for the awesome videos, and I have been inspired to try a from-scratch mini after seeing the video. Thanks!

[@TheRoark]

Yo, I love Skytear. Glad to see them supporting this channel too, it’s a win-win!

[@julianmay5754]

Crysis shirt and DOOM sculpting? This has made my nerd heart very happy.

[@ScratchBashing]

It's cool you referenced Mr Pink (Modern Synthesist, I didn't even know he had a channel). That dude is an OG with greenstuff. Used to drool over his tyranid work on warpshadow forums. Got me started into customizing minis!

[@ModernSynthesist]

You forgot to add the "T" in your KZbin search, didn't you? THEY ALWAYS FORGET THE T! 😂

[@ScratchBashing]

@@ModernSynthesist why hello there. It's (Hivefleet) Ruckus - this is what I do now.

[@ModernSynthesist]

@@ScratchBashing Hey man! 🖐🏽

[@ScratchBashing]

@@ModernSynthesist remember the 'Ruckus Stomper' ?

[@georgethomas9040]

Honestly, I really enjoyed this video, although your comment about not wanting to make a video til you are pretty decent at something, there is a big gap in miniature videos that are exactly that, watching the process of someone learning how to do things by trying things out mini wise, and definitely making mistakes or not turning out something perfect. I for one would love to see content like this.

[@TheRaven-WingGaming]

Daaaaamn brother! Great fucking work on that sculpt bro! Actually, scratch that... It's ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

[@krizalide1]

My first mini sculpt was a 15mm tiny kenku. Starting with something this small was definitely a learning experience.

[@tea4me324]

Nice use of the tips and tricks model came out nice. Using a way smaller wire to wrap around your thick armature wire will also help make the clay stick

[@blackslashmail]

Love this. Maybe next up on your newbie adventures. Casting your sculpt so you can make an army of Cacodemons

[@MillywiggZ]

Looking into that thumbnail is like looking into a mirror. The amount of times I’ve pulled that face sculpting, RIP I guess. Shout out to Milliput, it’s made in my hometown and is good stuff.

[@cory7328]

The sculpt looks amazing. For a first time that is impressive.

[@sub2willne168]

MINIAC IS THE BEST KZbinR EVER, you inspired me to paint.

[@tonysmoot3712]

No shit! I literally just finished painting the first mini I sculpted last night! Very nice demon ballsack btw lmao

[@aliasgimpy]

As a sculptor, I'm so happy you tried sculpting! Check out Tom Mason on youtube he really is a great guy and great sculptor.

[@TheMetalPanda1]

Scott = Super cool. Doom = very cool. Scott + Doom = ULTRA Cool. (Space Marine pun intended) Keep up the amazing work Scott!

[@pseudonymeantipersonnelle2190]

I hope you will do a full serie on your journey into sculpting. I started to think about trying that myself, but as you said, a beginner view is very interesting

[@Wallach_a]

Demon Nutsack is the name of my new German industrial band. 🙌🏼

[@glorfendell2967]

Wow! That turned out fantastic! Job well done.

[@zamo9660]

I'm not the kind of person inclined to comment on vids but c'mon, evil nutshack. How could anyone resist? You can't imagine how happy I am about you giving sculpting a go. I really hope you enjoyed it and TBH for a 1st try this is crazy good. Dunno what it is, I sculpt my own thing just for fun, maybe that's why I genuinely feel super glad when I see someone trying and enjoying it. Next thing I'll be sculpting is a cacodemon and an imp straight below him, sporting a pissed face just 'cause caco is resting it's shopping bags on imps head. Either that or a TACODEMON. Thanks for the inspiration. Entertaining and informative as always, thumbs up \m/ \m/

[@jsidaho1957]

Cool Cacodemon Scott and damn good for your first sculpt! Perhaps shaping plastic rod or toothpicks could have worked for the horns?

[@ModernSynthesist]

A thousand times this. Waaaaay less frustrating than trying to sculpt them. You can also whittle down Apoxie Sculpt into a horn like shape

[@jamie69murphy]

Are you going to do more? I think that it looked pretty great for a first sculpt, and would love to see a series of your progression.

[@YGOrochi]

Tell you what, for a first attempt, that is one hell of a cracking job. Should be proud of yourself.

[@EIGHTYYARDS]

This man said semi pro. Then I don’t breathe air. Bruh you are a full fledged professional artist.

[@madsjohansen1135]

Good job! And a good tip about starting non humanoid. My first sculpts were treemen for my halfling blood bowl team and they were a blast. You can throw proportions to the wind and just have meditative fun with it.

[@michaelupchurch3809]

Miniac you should do a follow up comparison to see what you can produce digitally sculpting in Blender and 3d printing the result.

[@Ilidan1985]

Ambitious :D I've started with super sculpey because milliput is drying to fast and I couldn't make any changes later... so I only used it for armature and then sculpey on top of that. To me best hardness is when I mix medium and soft. Sometimes it's also good to have firm version. Pro tip for finishing that I've learned recently is to use turpentine to smooth the whole figure before baking. It removes all fingerprints and stuff like that. For milliput we can use water, but it's messy... anyway GREAT JOB as for first mini!

[@eBayMiniatureRescues]

Rad model man, it was great seeing the process!

[@Rustybot-vh8yc]

I am working on my free booter orks for my fun side hobby painting project and i turned the mozrog skragbads mount big chompa into a big chompy cat fish with only green stuff it was my first attempt it looks nice and was a struggle to get right your modle looks grand thanks for the good insperation

[@drybrushtherapy6557]

Really cool, the fangs are scary as hell. You could probably cast that, well minus the thin sticking out parts. As for tools - I have a whole armory of metal utencils for sculpey, but I always end up using almost 100% silicone tools. Takes longer, but is less invasive on the sculpture in the process. Or maybe I'm just scared to start using the metal ones :) Great job on the Demon, new Doom is just a beautiful mess.

[@KainBlake]

Quick tip I picked up from some mini sculptors: to avoid milliput not sticking to the armature just score the wire with a file an cover it with a base of green stuff since it's stickier than other epoxies. Also degrease the metal wire and don't touch the stuff with bare hands

[@hellmau2352]

This is great for a first try Scott! Now try making a bigger scale one. I think you'll be able to add more details to it ^^

[@daniel_tenner]

Awesome video, thank you. As I'm starting to consider investing in some green stuff and sculpting tools, this is great for ideas and inspiration.

[@NorthernXY]

Just getting started with Warhammer/minis, hate doing things half-ass so trying to get a good base to start from. In addition things like sculpting and digital 3D modeling so I can create custom minis, like power armor that looks like ancient Greek or Roman armor. Thanks for tips.

[@OrangeRustyMetal]

I like it how the "planning ahead" part appears somewhere in the middle. It always goes that way, not the other )

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

That looks awesome. I've only really done sculpting for jewellery stuff with polymer clay and not yet attempted to sculpt a mini. After watching this, I might well give it a go sometime soon.

[@thedanieljamesmoody]

This year definitely feels like the year of first time sculpting. Fair few over on insta at the moment and tried this myself a month ago with a bust. Really good thing to try and yours looks great Scott 👍

[@tomclift7630]

I'm in a group on facebook for kitbashing and the amount of hate on there at the moment for 3d printing and sculpting is just stupid I applaud this sculpt dude

[@jedrzejwilinski8148]

Always good to see your face on a friday. Thanks for another amazing content :)

[@James-zi4hj]

Can't wait to see your second sculpt!

[@typhus1799]

really enjoyed this video, would love to see some more delving into sculpting!

[@antoniofreitas3019]

Nice job man awesome as always. Green stuff is awesome, and here are a few tips if you wanted to keep using it in the future. (Found these out later so I can only imagine what you will create) 1 water is awesome for combating its sticky ness and just to tamper or sculpt. 2 if you can leave it on it’s armature for the full curing time (about 5 hours) this helps to avoid the green stuff from smooshing your detail work. 3 green stuff does work with jeweler wire and allows for articulation and rigging for sculpts just make sure to have enough stuff between the sculpture and wire. Can’t wait to see what you build next man... till then I’ll paint more minis.

[@incognitoatunknown2702]

It's like an evil Slimer. Works for me. Great first go.

[@Popsculpture]

Great Job man! Looks great even before the paint

[@Scott112508]

I too have a great deal of experience with demonic testicles. Thank you for making a video that shed a light on these little buddies.

[@nlnrose]

Going to try to do a small sand worm from dune.

[@AnyCleverUsername]

Great first attempt. Miniature sculpting is by far one of the most addictive hobbies. I honestly don’t even punt my sculpts anymore, I just want to move on to the next sculpture.

[@sardararkhan]

That looks awesome for your first mini!

[@DangerouslyIncompetent]

re horns milliput not sticking to paperclip greenstuff adheres to steel fine, put a thin layer of milliput on top of your steel armature, let it set then add your putty of choice for the final shape you want

[@RamblesWorkshop]

In the start of the lockdown i decided to attempt to sculpt a tyranid barbed hierodule out of wood and milliput, it's hideous and Looks pretty awful for what its meant to be (not a huge surprise, i have never tried it before and i have no tools) but for some reason i really like it, its certainly not something i would ever take to a serious 40k game but its a fun little mascot for me now, i even tied a tiny lindt rabbit bell around its neck and named it Barbara bell, also taught me a looooot about working with milliput. The whole thing cost me around 3 pounds to make (and a lot of time) so even if looks like trash im kinda happy with it. Though i just cant even make an attempt at guns, its guns are more or less just big cylinders with a hole in the middle so i need to replace them at some point. Anyway my point is, even if it looks bad, putting in the time to finish a project like that, learning how to work with a new medium, it feels good and i dont think ill get rid of it for a long long time.

[@David_necromaster]

Hi Scott, congratulations on the courage to start sculpting. I really like the result and encourage me to try it. take care of yourself

[@ASpooneyBard]

Now that I think about it, it would be fun and easy to sculpt some Silent Hill monsters. Lying Figures, closers, doormen, numb bodies, vanilla midgets...You don't have to worry about proportions when they aren't supposed to look normal. Yeah, I might try that.

[@hoodedman1046]

I sculpted tbe first time also three days ago also did some scratch building with it of my Giant Ork Warboss with Mega Armor.

[@natehancock7882]

That was a fun video, thanks for sharing the process with us. That mini came out really well , hope you make more!

[@zackrichardson1907]

This video makes me so fantastically excited! It's awesome to see you dive in to a new realm of creativity and document some of the speedbumps of learning! Your videos have been delightfully inspiring for me to keep making and doing and growing as an artist

[@angelusm01]

man! this sculp is really amazing!.... is not bad at all..

[@r3v3n63]

Excellent first go at sculpting! Interesting to see you start out sculpting pretty much doing the same thing I did when I began. The first complete figure I sculpted was a Warhammer squig; giant ball of flesh, over exaggerated face with two little limbs, it was great practice.

[@GTheHypersapien]

Scott that was a fantastic video really fun and really good to see you work. You did a fantastic job and have inspired me to try more with sculpting I have ordered some tools on Monday I did have some cheaper ones but wanted to upgrade and try more with sculpting this definitely was a great video at a perfect time as it built my morale thanks and all the best !

[@Mr.Boy112]

This is a really good guide. I myself got startet with this PDF From Ramon laan. Your headcrest method Will be useful for my tyranids.

[@RamblesWorkshop]

I thought that too :D chitin plates are (from experience) really hard to just try and do without any knowledge, this should really help!

[@xvalhallaboundx1187]

Scary, but great turn out. I would love to see you do a D&D Beholder. Similar project and classically nerdy in it's own right. Great video my dude.

[@tashamhodama4207]

Love it, fantastic job! I'm a little bit jelly that all the greenstuff sculpting skills and techniques I learned the hard way over a few years was covered so nicely in one video. You and BlackMagic Craft have to be my favourite mini youtubers

[@marcwittkowski5146]

7:22 such a glorious mustache :D

[@8triagrammer]

That you would even TRY something like this deserves a massive thumbs up. :)

[@clawhammr666]

Looks really good, specially for a first sculpt, sculpting is something that is very scary to me, even the minor conversions haven't gone way I wanted, think I need to find more info with it, since it was more with tools and something else then water to use when sculpting.

[@carlossantander8100]

It looks so cool!!!

[@craigkniffin4948]

Recently got into mini painting and have been watching a bunch of your videos....i ordered some vallejo paint from your link and they came today....love the recommendation of the paint...keep up the great work

[@JacobVoetberg1]

bro..... this thing is totally sick!!!

[@frankycustomslab4938]

Great job mate, looks amazing! Sculpting the first few times is scary, but it's always good to get out of your comfort zone and learn new things.

[@honzabalak3462]

That looks really cool!

[@delwicheromain2759]

Awesome video ! Very inspiring ! Also, Cacodemons are totally Chaos Squigs.

[@Spacemiata]

"Spoon like metal sculpting tool" hahana 😂

[@stubbz9]

Nice to know I'm not the only one still rocking the CD collection in my vehicle.

[@Jrizzle7426]

That ended up looking awesome. You are a natural sir.

[@andresyaggi1761]

queremos ms de esto!!!!

[@chiggn7456]

this i would definetely buy , thats some damn nice work man

[@Heath86]

looks great!

[@derekstiles5801]

First episode I’ve watched in a while. Scott kinda makes me feel like he’s grown to hate all this shit, but loves the money so just keeps going.

[@StackingLimit]

Nicely done Miniac

[@MurderHoboRPG]

looking great man

[@christopherhobley5352]

Love it. I think it's great

[@rickl9462]

Great Video! Thanks for sharing this

[@L1Z1O]

Now that you got your feet wet with sculpting, you should come over and try sculpting in VR. You could then 3D print it!

[@ajfornes6728]

This looks sick man! You’ve got a new subscriber, never painted a mini but I think I’d like to start

[@CypressPunk34]

Really helpful and inspiring video. Also, thanks so much for linking to other sculptors

[@xShinyMetalSniperz]

Cacodemon and the vocals at the end??? Sounds like you got a new subscriber

[@spicycaco2061]

Got super excited when seeing you were making a sweet tomato, fucking love doom and the Cacos are my fave next to Flame boi. You gonna paint any of the Doom minis? There's a lot of options, couple by Klukva Minis, then there's the re released 90s metal ones and the 2016 boardgame

[@hickorystone]

Great video! The more I see Green Stuff and similar compounds, the more I want to give them a try!

[@dyslexichitman]

Your content has been right up my alley, and some good tips to help someone new into the hobby world. Keep up the great work! Would love to see you continue making more DOOM minis

[@mattbecker4514]

That's a pretty impressive Scottcodemon for your first sculpting attempt!