Tau Renegade Warband

[Kaled]

Yeah, I find my set of needle files invaluable for sorting out folds in cloth or smoothing off areas that weren't great when I first sculpted them.

[Papah]

No one is until they practice - just resculpt the arm for now, the pose won't be perfect but it'll probably be close enough to give the impression you're after. And don't worry if it goes wrong the first time (which it probably will), or even if it goes wrong the second or third time - as long as you learn something each time then you'll get it right eventually. We've all had to go through the stage where we're not good enough to achieve the look we're after but it does get easier...

Words of wisdom, I think we all began by sculpting a head, an arm or similar for our conversions in the first place. Don't be afraid to try.

That said, you could try to cut under the shoulderpad, and then work on it so you remove the surrounding cloth material. In the remaining arm section you could work to leave the union area with a wedge shape, by abundantly sanding the face in contact with the chestplate. Then you could adjust the shoulderpad in the proper place with Green Stuff, let it harden. Then it will be easy to finish the arm with some more GS folds following the existing pattern, the samurai linked before and some pic of you in that pose as references.

Hope this helps, happy sculpting.
Regards.  

[Ynek]

I probably shouldn't admit just how much of my sculpting is about going back and adjusting with a knife...

I find that cutting into already cured greenstuff is an invaluable technique for getting hard edges and corners on things like armour or weapons. (To give a recent example, Victoria Murae's backpack, or the details on her plasma blade.) Of course, plasticard is still my material of choice for such things, but sometimes, it's just easier to get into an awkward area or make an awkward shape with green stuff.

But yeah, my point is that cutting cured green stuff with a knife isn't something to be ashamed of, in fact, it's an easy, quick, and very effective technique.

[MarcoSkoll]

Sometimes, it's just easier to get into an awkward area or make an awkward shape with green stuff.

Definitely. I tried to make the air intake fans on my (as of yet still unfinished) Rhino out of plasticard, but eventually got fed up with trying to use such small fragments of card and just sculpted the things out of ProC.

Indeed, I do often deliberately leave things to harden and be trimmed later. But I'm referring more to going back and fixing mistakes rather than doing it as an intentional technique.

[kierkegaard]

I find 'editing' my attempts once they have set, either by carving with a scalpel or micro chisel, or just sanding with fine wet and dry paper, to be much easier than actually pushing putty around with a sculpting tool. Do whatever you feel comfortable with - the end result is all that matters in this case.