What to do with Leftover GS?

[airhead]

I am very new to the GS-foo. Invariably, I cut off and mix too much GS for the task at hand...

 

Am I the only one? Surely not... What do you do with the extra GS?

 

Last night, I started a little bunny that will become an Al-miraj (hopefully) with the dab I had left over.

[Erion]

I usually make small, quick terrain bits with mine. Rocks, sand bags, whatever you have enough for.

[spiritual_exorcist]

I usually have something I'm playing around with. Often I just tack it on to a base or something using it as filler, a rock, or a fungi or something.

 

I have a friend who created an entire beholder sculpt from his left overs.

[TheDeinonychus]

Usualy when I have leftover GS (which is quite often) I just roll it into a ball. You never know when you're going to need various-sized round shapes. You could probably make brick-shapes out of the leftovers too and use them to build a wall when you get enough of them. Point is, you dont want to waste it, and if you dont have anything you need to use it on right then, make it into something that might be useful down the road.

[Orchid_Noir]

One word ....... MUSHROOMS!!!!

 

I like making cute little pointy top mushrooms that I end up playing with when I sit at my painting area and can't get into the painting.

 

 

 

Orchid - who really needs to get painting

[Mourningcloud]

i make stalactites/stalacmites with mine, in sizes ranging from really tiny-what would be on 28 mm scale about 8 inches, to 4-5 feet tall, to a full column made from a stalactite and a stalactite meeting (just like they are made in RL) that stands about 8 feet high on 28 mm scale.

 

what im going to do with them, i have no idea, but they sure do look cool!

[paintminion]

For those of us who tinker, not sculpt...

 

--Unicorn horns and demon horns. You never know when you might need them. My daughter's toy horses have horns tacked on them as we speak, uh, write. I keep saying I'll eventually have a Unicorn army with every figure sporting a horn.

 

--Flatten it out paper thin and use for papers, flags, ribbons, etc.

[Shadowlight]

I tend to make little snakes out of mine. My DM likes to send people into temples of Set to root out evil so we're always needing little snakes.

[pewtermonkey]

Or you can also put the GS in the freezer. It will actually stop the curing process of the GS. Take it out whenever you need it again.

 

--PM

[Enchantra]

I tend to have very tiny pieces of GS leftover.

This means sometimes to tiny to sculpt most things with.

I've used these pieces before to add a bit more texture to hair on a mini, or simply as a pebble on a base.

[SaintRigger]

I'm in the Sandbag/Mushroom camp myself.

 

I always mix too much up, and then I feel really bad wasting it.

[Bodhi]

Freezer is fine for a day or two. It doen't stop the curing, just slows it down.

 

Greenstuff mixed with magic sculpt (my preferred mix) stays workable for about a week and it has the added advantage (for me) of quickening the curing time after removal from the freezer. So I keep a blob in the freezer, take out a tiny amount to work with. In about half an hour it's cured then I take out a tiny bit more etc. Speeds up sculpting a bit.