Sculpting is hard… I was trying to get the paperclips look like chains. The first attempt was the goblin on the left, where my approach was to put greenstuff around the paperclip and press it flat, then press in indendations. This way I had all the chain links in one plane, missing the connecting links which are turned 90° to them. The missing links will be added once this layer is cured. The result looked somewhat like I had envisaged, but it seemed too thick overall.
So with the goblin on the right, I tried to start with only a quarter of the final chain, laying a thin piece of greenstuff over the wire and making the indendations for the chain links. This allowed me to see the wire all the time, making sure the greenstuff was as thin as possible on top. The plan here is to add the lower part of the chain once that layer has cured. This will give me a firm base to work against, hopefully also allowing me to keep the overal chain quite thin.
Here is the second step. The one on the left has a complete chain, which looks way too crude and thick. The one on the left only has half the chain done, but looks much better concerning the size of he chain, in my oppinion.
While googling for how to sculpt chains, I found an article on DakkaDakka, and followed it. This approach wraps the paper clip in green stuff as thinly as possible. First challenge: merging the two loose ends. When you press them together, you press them through the wire, or at least make the green stuff on the other side of the wire thicker. So I tried to pull the greenstuff sideways into the other end… need to improve on that. Then you score four grooves along the length of the wire, so that the cross-section looks like it is named - a cross. Into the four ridges, you then press indendations to form the chain links.
Disregarding the issue of merging the two ends of the greenstuff, I think I like this approach the most, so far. This chain nearly turned out too thin, though…
Sculpting is hard…