I woke up in the early hours of the afternoon on New Years day with only a splitting headache as a reminder of the previous night – a night of heavy debauchery. Somehow, in the haze of the hangover to trump all hangovers, I managed to finish off my Goliaths.

Today, I teach you the wonders of using a comb to make pipes. I will also share with you a secret technique that /u/Pazuzu81 taught me, even though my hangover prevented me from trying it out. Hit the jump to see what I got up to.

INGREDIENTS:

Halfway-done green stuff’d models

Green stuff x Milliput mix (70:30)

Variable toothed-comb

Flat, plastic surface

Super glue

Extreme patience and lots of time

A quick reminder about my green stuff solution. I mix about 7:3 green stuff to milliput. This means your green stuff cures flexible, but firm.

We have fun in my workshop. Look how happy my green stuff mix is! Before we get into the main show, let’s have a quick look at my workshop layout:

Here we’ll look at the tube technique. First, make your green stuff and grab a clump of it. Wet your surface area, and roll this into a sausage. Then, grab your sausage, wet your comb, and press the comb into the green stuff. Use that as a rolling pin, working the green stuff sausage so that the teeth of the comb leave indents in it.

You get a nice pipe which could easily be a Nurgle tentacle or a Tech-Priest mechatendril. This is the basis for the tubes I attach to my Juves.

Then, grab some super glue. You want to attach one end of a tendril to the model first (in this case, into one of the ports we made earlier). Let the glue harden over a few seconds, then attach the other end of the tendril into another port. Once this is done, you need to rest your model somewhere to dry.

It’s critical to note that gravity will affect your green stuff, depending on how late into the curing process you make your tendril. The earlier you shape your tendril, the greater gravity will affect the final result, so many sure to rest your model in a way that accentuates the tendril. In the above case, I wanted Descartes to have a forward-motion, so the cable would need to be behind him in motion.

You can repeat this process pretty easily as much as you need. Pazuzu got his own set of tendrils, too. Here you can see me attaching the first one:

Onto the technique that /u/Pazuzu81 suggested. While the green stuff is curing, /u/Pazuzu81 suggests brushing 70% alcohol (maybe something like this) onto the model. This should melt the top surface of the green stuff, providing a nice finish to what we have and likely get rid of any fingerprint marks.

We’re not sure what 70% alcohol would do to the milliput part of my green stuff mix but I’ll be trying this the next time I work with green stuff. At the time, and with that hangover, the idea of handling any alcohol was repulsive.

You can see how I’m drying my models below. I have stuck each model down at the correct angle with plenty of blue-tack (which I think is called poster tack in the States?).

And finally, after some time, here is the finished result pre-painting. I can only hope that Descartes and Pazuzu will both have long careers as Goliaths and not be picked on too much by the other Gangers.