Del -
This is so very old, I'm sure you've completed the project, but I finally found Alan's description on creating the ruff for the Tulip Guard. I think it was an article in either TimeLines or an older figure discussion page whose name escapes me now - hazards of getting to be a senior citizen!
Jim
I've copied it below:
The Ruff around the neck was the most perplexing to do ...I tried several ways of making it but wasn't happy. I ended up using a disc of Plasticard. I put some Magic sculpt on the bottom of the disc and pressed it onto the neck (after coating the neck area with Vaseline). Once set, I popped the disc off and carved the frills on the underside. I then rolled out some A&B and cut a half cm strip which I wrapped around the edge of the ruff, giving an even rim around the whole thing.
I then used lead wire to make the edge of the ruff, by working around it very carefully and slowly I was able to get the "folds" on the A&B rim quite even and as the folds are shown as quite tight in the illustration, there didn't need to be too much depth.
The trick here was to put some super glue of a small section of the A&B .hold a pin right on the edge of that A&B Strip and wrap the wire around that coming straight back down again - move the pin to the other edge and again wrap the wire round it ...and so on . (How did I hold the pin as well as the Ruff and the wire? In my mouth, which meant that at the moment I was wrapping the wire I couldn't actually see the thing
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Once that had been left to set and "settle in" overnight, I then put Magic Sculpt onto the top of the Ruff , pushed the neck of the head into the right position ( once again covered with Vaseline to stop it sticking ) and put that aside to set.
Again, once set, I popped off the head and using the scalpel, carved the top of the ruff. It helps here to mark the centre of the ruff and draw lines from the lead folds at the edge of the ruff to that centre point ....with care, you can make it look as if the lead wire is actually the edge of a continuous piece of material ...which is the effect that you are after
This is so very old, I'm sure you've completed the project, but I finally found Alan's description on creating the ruff for the Tulip Guard. I think it was an article in either TimeLines or an older figure discussion page whose name escapes me now - hazards of getting to be a senior citizen!
Jim
I've copied it below:
The Ruff around the neck was the most perplexing to do ...I tried several ways of making it but wasn't happy. I ended up using a disc of Plasticard. I put some Magic sculpt on the bottom of the disc and pressed it onto the neck (after coating the neck area with Vaseline). Once set, I popped the disc off and carved the frills on the underside. I then rolled out some A&B and cut a half cm strip which I wrapped around the edge of the ruff, giving an even rim around the whole thing.
I then used lead wire to make the edge of the ruff, by working around it very carefully and slowly I was able to get the "folds" on the A&B rim quite even and as the folds are shown as quite tight in the illustration, there didn't need to be too much depth.
The trick here was to put some super glue of a small section of the A&B .hold a pin right on the edge of that A&B Strip and wrap the wire around that coming straight back down again - move the pin to the other edge and again wrap the wire round it ...and so on . (How did I hold the pin as well as the Ruff and the wire? In my mouth, which meant that at the moment I was wrapping the wire I couldn't actually see the thing
)Once that had been left to set and "settle in" overnight, I then put Magic Sculpt onto the top of the Ruff , pushed the neck of the head into the right position ( once again covered with Vaseline to stop it sticking ) and put that aside to set.
Again, once set, I popped off the head and using the scalpel, carved the top of the ruff. It helps here to mark the centre of the ruff and draw lines from the lead folds at the edge of the ruff to that centre point ....with care, you can make it look as if the lead wire is actually the edge of a continuous piece of material ...which is the effect that you are after
