WIP Ash tray

Just a few pictures of a project that I need to finish painting...

 I sculpted out super sculpy soft pack out with firm grade, (I did this simply to make the soft grade go further and the firm stuff is pretty horrible to sculpt with on its own). The shape is built around half an Ali drinks can, this was to act as an partially expose armature and to have something metallic to stub  things on.

 I spent about 5 hours-ish of relaxed sculpting whilst sat in front of the TV over a couple of days. I didn't want to risk singeing this in the oven, so i put it in boiling water (I swapped out the water about 5 times ensuring that it should have been heated enough) . Unfortunately because of the Ali can, when the sculpy shank as it set, a few cracks formed along some of the thinner sections of the sculpt.

 This has been painted with acrylics, and a small amount of Chameleon Nano Flakes an iridescent pigment that come in powdered form.

 I'm pretty sure that the squid is going to be a bit more orange and dry brushed with Goldfinger (like the phone case's watch parts).