First of all these are all the tools I currently own and use for working with greenstuff.
From left to right these are: 2 GW sculpting tools, 4 clay shapers ( the bigger ones are size 2 and the smaller ones are size 0 ), a small burnisher and a knife. I use these for different shaping things and each of them are better then others at different things, the metal tools are great for filling gaps and making lines and hard shapes and the clay shapers are great for soft shapes and smoothing out things, they are made of silicone and you don't have to wet them as they are soft enough that they don't stick to the greenstuff.
For this task though I only ended up using these 3 tools.
Now onto greenstuff itself. The first thing you will want to do if you are buying the GW brand of greenstuff that comes in a strip is to cut the middle out where the blue and yellow parts meet, this is because that small section has already begun to cure itself (the yellow part is the resin and the blue is the hardener), grab your knife and make sure its wet before you start and just slice that bit right out, this bit is pretty much useless for making anything neat as it will have flecks of hardened greenstuff already in it but I usually use it to make little balls that I cut up and use as bubbles on my slime bases.
Next grab yourself something small to keep your greenstuff in, I have these two small tins I stole off my brother. You're also going to want to grease the inside of your container with vaseline to stop you blue and yellow stuff from sticking to it.
These are great for another reason, you're going to want to throw you blue and yellow stuff in the freezer when you're done using it. This is because overtime the two parts are going to slowly cure a bit on their own once the air hits them and by freezing them you put them in stasis which slows this down and you get a longer life out of your greenstuff.
Now moving on to the main event, actually making the tentacles for Vomitus!
Take yourself some blue and yellow stuff about the size of a pea for each and then mix them together until they are one solid green colour, the small amount of vaseline from you container should make it so you don't have to wet your fingers while you are mixing it.
Then grab something flat to start rolling this out, you're going to want to hold whatever you have at an angle so that you can roll the greenstuff into a taper. Don't roll it into too sharp of a point though as it is more likely to break and crumble and personally I don't think it looks as good.
Then grease up a smooth surface with some vaseline, this is because we don't want to fully cure the tentacles before we attach them and if they are left on a dry surface they will stick to it and ruin all the work you've just done. Cut off the tentacle at about 2cm long and place it on your smooth surface, once on the surface grab something round, in my case my size 0 round tip clay shaper, and nudge it into some nice wiggly shapes.
Rinse and repeat till you're out of greenstuff.
Then leave them alone for about an hour and a half, we want them to firm up just a little bit so they are going to be easier to work with. Take this time to go and grab a drink or something.
All thats left to do now is attach you little wigglers onto the model in whatever fashion best pleases you.
And there we go all done.
My main reason for doing this modification was that the robes still looked as though they had legs moving beneath them but now it looks like its this mass of tentacles writhing beneath it and looks less out of place... I hope.
See you all next time when I try to tackle the problem of filling the massive gap that is his belly!
