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Some tips and advice on smoothing Casteline from professional sculptors Adam Beane, Keith Kopinski and Ray Villafane.  ...swiped from an old thread on the Clubhouse Forums ... Adam Beane Lighter fluid (Rosonol for a Zippo type lighter) works GREAT! BUT Only use it dead last!  I think people over-use it and the sculpture gets a very soft, melted look on the high points and is still rough in the crevaces. For the 5 years I've been sculpting, I've used soley the "hot sponge" method. This also can turn a good sculpture into an indistinct blob if over used. Basically, try to get your sculpture as good as you can with hand tools. Use the hot 3m sponges very gently to smooth out small sections then finally use lighter fluid on a 3m sponge or brush.  The sponges will "load up" so I cut them into small managable strips and throw them away when necessary. Solvents will also only dissolve the binders in the material, leaving filler, which can result in a "grainy...

Sculpting a Vampire Bust - step by step picture tutorial. Added to the Oil Based Clays and Wax Related Page

Added to the Water Based Clays Page

This tutorial was originally posted by Mark Newman on the Clubhouse Sculptors Forum . Demonstrating his technique for sculpting afro-textured hair, in this example with Super Sculpey. You can see more of Mark's masterful work here All photos and words Mark Newman... These are the basic tools I use for this.  A few ball end tools different sizes and a tool I made out of steel wires bunched together and soldered into a piece of brass square tude. Basically it's a small steel wire brush. I just smash on the hair form and push it around with the different size ball tools.  Then I stipple in the tighter texture with the wire brush tool. I go back and forth with the ball tools and wire brush tool depending on how tight I want the final hair texture. From Jerry Curl to Nappy and in between.  I then lightly brush it down with Turpenoid and a soft brush to knock out the hard edges.  I then lightly stipple the surface with a stippling brush. Especially if I want the tight ki...