Simulating 'FUR"

goldenturtle02 wrote:

All the above ideas sound good. I have decent results with flocking from Detail Master.  But you should practice on something that you can do without, an old car body? Mayhaps a Cougar, or a Jaguar or maybe a Mustang and lastly a Sunbeam Tiger. Hmmmm I may build a furry Jag.......

Don't forget to add purple velvet seats with zebra stripes with it. I forgot that  this is the plastic modeling forum, not a Pimp MAH Ride forum. j/k  

Best regards,

Huggy Bear

If the kit is plastic, then you can brush-paint a little area with liquid poly cement to soften the plastic's surface.  Then use a needle in a small pin vice and quickly scribe 'fur' lines into the plastic.  Keep going till you cover the model.  When finished, take an old bit of Scotchbrite over it to remove any stringy bits of plastic and there you are ....fur!

The same technique can be used on plastic figures for dioramas to improve the quality of the hair on a human head.  Hope this helps.

All the above ideas sound good. I have decent results with flocking from Detail Master.  But you should practice on something that you can do without, an old car body? Mayhaps a Cougar, or a Jaguar or maybe a Mustang and lastly a Sunbeam Tiger. Hmmmm I may build a furry Jag.......

If you are going to use putty over the existing surface, a piece of fine wire with a loop in it makes a nice fur texturing tool. The other thing that works pretty well is taking a small swatch of craft fur and laying it down and pressing it into the putty. When you lift it off.....fur.

Epoxy is my vote. Let it set for about 30 minutes, and then use an exacto blade, with short, quick, shallow cuts, all in one general direction. As the putty sets, you can texture it finer and finer. I'd take a toothpick ot the end of a brush, and block out the sections of the fur first, and then start laying in the texture.

Is it plastic.  If so you might consider using a hot iron to scribe the fur.  Also, epoxy putty could probably be used and sculpted into a fur texture.  Just some ideas.