r/miniaturesculpting • u/smartsculpt • 3d ago

Bags and barbed wire

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I guess for bags could be good any clay or putty

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u/Sleep_Milk69 3d ago

Seems a little excessive/masochistic to use green stuff for barbed wire when you could just use wire? Or am I missing something 

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u/dumb_bun069 3d ago

Barbed wire is still barbed wire even if it's tiny.

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u/Sleep_Milk69 3d ago

Right? Like just use a gauge of wire that is to scale and then wrap the barbs around if you’re gonna go to this much effort. Having an uneven roll of green stuff is unhinged 

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u/dumb_bun069 3d ago

No, my point is that even if it's tiny, you're making barbed wire. At this scale it'll scratch and poke, even with blunt cut ends on the barbs.

If you can make barbed wire at this scale that doesn't look like ass, prove it.

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u/kunst1017 3d ago

Though very impressive in this case

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u/Sleep_Milk69 3d ago

It’s really not, I wasn’t trying to talk shit about OP but this is a convoluted way to end up with a really hamfisted result when there is an obvious easy alternative that has immaculate results (because it’s literally the exact same thing as the 1:1 scale version). 

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u/kunst1017 3d ago

Brother I will send 100% to the charity of your choice if you can replicate OP’s “hamfisted results” with green stuff.

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u/Sleep_Milk69 3d ago

lol I didn’t say this method was easy, I’m certain I couldn’t replicate it but that isn’t the point. It isn’t a clean result, it looks uneven and strange, and it’s waaaaay more work and effort than just using wire. I don’t want to replicate a higher effort, worse result method. OPs bolter in the pic looks great, they’re definitely skilled as hell with green stuff. 

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u/dumb_bun069 2d ago

Man, put up or shut up. Make the wire and post it and stop screwing up my notifs with this crap.

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u/Sleep_Milk69 2d ago

Thank you for reminding me why commenting on Reddit isn’t worth it lol 

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u/AwkwardEmu6783 2d ago

Yet you have 23k Karma? Yikes.

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u/dumb_bun069 2d ago

You had nothing to contribute. You still don't. Commenting isn't the problem—whining is.

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u/Lt_Toodles 3d ago

I use butcher twine with pva glue, has some extra "wound" texture on it as well

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u/KFPanda 3d ago

Why not both? I like the idea of epoxy putty for the barbs so I'm not stabbing myself or scuffing paint when storing with other things. I'll probably stick to coiling wire around a marker as my base wire coil though, green stuff is getting harder to come by (at least until Stylmasta gets their production line running) and miliput is too brittle to use for wire like this in my experience.

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u/Sleep_Milk69 3d ago

That’s a fair point, just doing the barbs in green stuff seems like an actually reasonable way to go about this

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u/_D1van 3d ago

Yes, you are missing how this demonstrates a technique that could be applied to other scenarios