Armor texture

[ocholocofx]

Hey everybody

i am sculpting a new bio but i don`t know how you guys make the Predator Armor texture.

can you help me out?

Philipp

 

[Usurper]

Different sized little balls /ball bearings glued to sticks them keep tapping the clay until you get a nice hammerd look.

well thats how i did mine anyway.

 

[Uratz]

Damn, wish I knew this earlier. I've been doing silly things like going outside town and looking for huge rock textures in gardens and taking clay impressions and making molds out them then casting a resin texture stamp. I've been using the different rock texture stamps to give it another kind of rocky look. OH well.

 

[carlart]

Different sized little balls /ball bearings glued to sticks them keep tapping the clay until you get a nice hammerd look.
well thats how i did mine anyway.

Hammered balls, Lee?

 

[Mannowar]

Damn, wish I knew this earlier. I've been doing silly things like going outside town and looking for huge rock textures in gardens and taking clay impressions and making molds out them then casting a resin texture stamp. I've been using the different rock texture stamps to give it another kind of rocky look. OH well.

I use rock textures from time to time, but I usually use the tip of a 1/4" guitar cable and tap it lightly into the clay.... about 10,000 times...

 

[BANE]

the ball bearings on a stick, sounds practical, and efficient, thanks for sharing, may have to try this one myself too.

 

[one and only]

Hammered balls, Lee?

lol Carl

 

[Sandy Collora]

Take a stick pin (the kind you get with a new shirt), or a map tack (slightly bigger than a stick pin) and
insert the pin end into a wooden dowell. A spot of cyno and you're good to go!

SC

 

[TUSKY]

Wow!!
All good ideas, i would have just made a texture stamp.
Hammered Balls
I gotta get my shop outta storage and get back in the game.

 

[ocholocofx]

Cool! thank you guys for all the good Ideas!

 

[Usurper]

hammered balls is what you will end up with, if you dont get your backpack finished soon carl

 

[VinMan]

hammered balls is what you will end up with, if you dont get your backpack finished soon carl

I tried this technique on some armor I made for an Orc and the finished product turned out awesome
First put a coat of Gloss spray paint, gray or black or whatever you prefer then while it is still wet go over top with
Rustoleum Hammered Metal Spray paint.


the chemical reaction to the two paints not only gives the Hammer metal quality
but it adds depth to the colors and It causes it to seperate from each other which resembles some real cool pitting.

Trial and error on a spare piece is always advised. You may get different results than I.

I will add this tip in the Huntorial section.

 

[carlart]

While the spray paint method may work for a cast piece that is rigid, it will not work for the majority of flexible armor made by members of this board. Great idea, though.
I wonder if putting the finished sculpt in a chamber and blasting it with large diameter glass beads at low pressure would work. It sure would get the job done quickly.

 

[VinMan]

While the spray paint method may work for a cast piece that is rigid, it will not work for the majority of flexible armor made by members of this board. Great idea, though.
I wonder if putting the finished sculpt in a chamber and blasting it with large diameter glass beads at low pressure would work. It sure would get the job done quickly.

This is true. I don't know of any of the techniques listed in this thread that can be applied to flexible armor.

 

[Usurper]

Get the texture on the actual sculpt, it will be transferred to the peice then whatever its cast in, if thats what you mean

Ive used all sorts of things, i have a couple of tapping tools with a marble and ball bearing on each, then used other things likea drum stick, blunt pencil, crayon etc etc to geta random pattern.

 

[Bovine13]

You guys will probonly laugh but, I use clothing buttons. Some of the large decorative ones you can find have great textures to them. I also use different size ball end stylus tools from my leather tools.

 

[VinMan]

This is true. I don't know of any of the techniques listed in this thread that can be applied to flexible armor.

did a test on some foam tonight and the hammered metal texture holds up really well on it

 

[Usurper]

Scott whatever works dude whateveeeeeeeeeeeeer works

another thing i thought about trying was to take the sculpt outside, get a hand full of gravel/stones and drop them on, but i have not tried this yet hehe.

Vinmanmac, the poster asked about creating texture on his sculpt, not a finished item buddy

 

[Silent1]

A cheep,but very monotonous texture method I've used for a hammered metal look on sculptures is by using different erasers on #2 pencils(still connected to the pencil of course). Tapping takes a million years,but it ends up looking good.

 

[ocholocofx]

i`m tapping