Sculpting Tools, pls suggest me what to buy

How to convert or sculpt a miniature? How to make a decent base or even a full diorama?!
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Hosea

Sculpting Tools, pls suggest me what to buy

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I need a set of sculpting tools, what company or brand u guys suggest? good price? and stainless steel is better?

Please suggest, if with photo and web site , would be much better.

thanks
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RE: Sculpting Tools, pls suggest me what to buy

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color shapers of any grade (using size "2" shapers atm. but will need to get me smaller ones for finer details like faces), then a needle on a self made handle, the GW sculpting tool and some hook-like tool from a dentist is what i use up to now.

oh and i have a tool that has a conic tip...hmmm how to describe it...it is very thin on the very end and is getting broader to about 1mm over the lenght of a mm...I use this for skulls of all sizes mainly.

EDIT: I got the heresy set and tbh. I can't use any tool other than the thing that GW sells as well...I don't think they were ment to be sculpting tools for miniatures...
Hosea

@ Trov, so the heresy set is not good in your opinion?

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u got it and u said u do not use anything other than GW stuffs, so u tried heresy and u do not like them?

From the website, the pics look like they are good tools.
Lonewolf

RE: @ Trov, so the heresy set is not good in your opinion?

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they work alright for me, not that i do much sculpting and i know Andy at Heresy uses them hinself
Hosea

and what is color shaper ? where i can get them?

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color shpaer is a brand name or a tool name?

and can I get it in Hong kong art shop or somewhere else?
any website or pic for color shaper?

thx
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RE: and what is color shaper ? where i can get them?

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https://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=color+shaper&meta=

:P

@heresy tools: afaik they are wax carvers - if you can put them to good use that's cool, but i have to say for me, personaly they were a waste of money...

what i also find usefull, but never gotten my hands on over here is on this page, where it says "Kemper Sculpting Tools for Miniatures" - the tools with the "ball-tip" and the hook like shaped ones:
https://www.fxsupply.com/sculpt/sculpt.html


this is not a bad selection either:
https://www.greyfunnelline.de/ShopD/asse ... /index.htm

and personally I'd kill for one of these right now:
https://www.greyfunnelline.de/ShopD/images/wm0200101.jpg

but can't get them here either...
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RE: and what is color shaper ? where i can get them?

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I've been thinking about purchasing some sculpting tools from the Heresy site (and probably will) but any other professional sculting tools are more than welcome too!

The Colour Shapers, I still haven't found them so if anyone is willing to help me out here is much appreciated! (I will pay for them and shipping offcourse!)
Darkson

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Darkson also stocks sculpting tools :D

https://www.darksondesigns.com/supplies.html

@Skrit
Email me as I have an art shop just down the street that stocks all of the color shapers.
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Post by Skrit »

Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it. However our friend ToMaZ has already took steps to help me out so I'll be getting them soon!

Again thanks! :D
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