I Need Help in making a hairpiece!

[Modulex Guy]

Hey customizers, I need some tips on how to make my own hair pieces.

I want to make anime style girl hair from each of my favorite anime series... which would be like 20 something individual hairpieces

This kind of hair:

What would be the best way to approach something like this?

What would be the best way to sculpt something like this?

What materials to use?

...I do have experience in making model car kits, painting, etc... tools, paints, and modeling supplies I have, it just the sculpting part I'm in the dark on.

What would you do?

I need help.

[VBBN]

What would you prefer, me giving you a tutorialon how todo it,or meactually building it for you? I have build hairpieces in the past such as my mohawk piece that snap to studs fine and dandy. Let me know.

VBBN

[woody64]

I use 3d construction techniques and 3d printing. You find some references in my footnote and a lot of examples in this and the pirate forums.

You will also find guys doing these things with sculpey....

Woody64

[Modulex Guy]

Tutorial, I would like to make it myself, I just need some instruction on the best way to make it.

woody64: I have seen your 3D printed stuff and researched it a bit, It looks fantastic, only issue with that is that my computer skills suck and I would not be able to make a prototype render on a computer.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Polish Guy

[VBBN]

Alright, I'll get to work on getting pictures for the tutorial,I'll keep you updated.

[Modulex Guy]

So yesterday evening I went to a local hobby store where the guy that works there is very knowledgeable in al hobby things. I asked him my situation and he said that the best option, is to make a master out of clay (sculpey) and to make a mold on that, the store had plenty of mold making kits and resin kits.

Well I bought a cube of clay and I'll see what I can do with that.

[Bobskink]

Fo this kind of haircut I would use miliput, it's molding clay that gets hard after a while. I would recommend you do this really step by step. Start with for example 5 hairpieces which you don't need anymore, just a regular male hairpiece will do fine (5 final haircuts). Than ad on each of those hairpieces a few pieces of hair, the basic, bigest and important ones. Wait for they to get hard (yes, that might take a day, that's why it's godd to do 5 at one time) and when it's hard, you can ad more hairpieces.

I think that working that will will give a better resullt at the end, because sculpting manga hair in one time is really difficult. You will always damage other parts of the hairpice when working on an other part.