Make sure you keep a small pot of clean water for your fingers and tools while you work. Some people say baby oil or other mediums but I find just water is best. The water is more than enough to keep the green stuff from sticking to you or your instruments.
I use only three tools: a double sided spatula with a flat blade at one side and a curved blade at the other, a dental pick for fine details and a small rubber-tipped tool for smoothing tiny spaces where my fingers can't fit. I bought a whole selection of tools a while back but found that for actual work I only ever really used those three; and the rubber tip every rarely.
Green stuff layers and build up well but is harder to remove, so apply it a little at a time. It's MUCH easier to sculpt it than to file or carve later, so build the base structure and then add details little by little on top after it dries. You can always add more green on top of green but it's a lot harder to carve it down. Always keep your green clear of fingerprints as you go.
Buy your green stuff in the bulk tubes you can get from GF9 and just play with it, the more you use it, the easier it grtsr to work with and the more ideas you'll have. My best advice is get a tube, get some wire and find a pic of something you'd like to try and see if you can replicate it. Make some mistakes and by the time you're through with that one you'll be set for whipping up your own custom figs.
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