Does anyone here do sculpturing? 

If so, do you know of any active forums where desperate people can usually get their questions answered?

I'm looking along the lines of people sculpturing in super sculpey.

I've got a dragon's head I've done in super sculpey, and I need to cover the body in something a bit (or a lot) more flexible - so I need feedback about the different types of flexible clays available.

I've asked on "Concept Art" forum and on Sculpey.com's info/contact us address, with no answers, and I'm in a hurry.

Can anyone please, please help me?

I'm afraid I don't know anything about them, but you might look at this site. They seem to cover quite a lot of ground in the sculpture area, anyway.

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

I found these, also:

Concept Art has a 3D/Sculpturing forum.
Statue Forum has some "how to" forums that might help.

Also, doing a Google search with the keywords "super sculpey forum" turned up several single threads about Super Sculpey that might be helpful.

Quote - I found these, also:

Concept Art has a 3D/Sculpturing forum.

Yes, as I said in my first message, I found that one too, but haven't yet had any reply to my post.

Quote - Statue Forum has some "how to" forums that might help.

Also, doing a Google search with the keywords "super sculpey forum" turned up several single threads about Super Sculpey that might be helpful.

Hmm, can't remember if I already did that, I've done so many searches on sculpey lately, I can't remember the exact wording I used each time, won't hurt to try again though.
Don't think I found the Statue Forum before - I'll take a look there.

Thanks.

Quote - > Quote - Concept Art has a 3D/Sculpturing forum.

Yes, as I said in my first message, I found that one too, but haven't yet had any reply to my post.

Sorry... I hadn't yet had any coffee when I started looking this morning, and my brain is hurting from some kind of mutant jet-lag over the daylight savings time thing. :lol: Anyway, I hope you find something.

Is it just me - or are a lot of forums suddenly banning hotmail?

That Statue Forum is the second one in the last few days to say that hotmail is banned!

I can't register there... and it looked so interesting, and so far the only place with people actively talking about super sculpey!

(sigh)

No, I think that's the way the wind is blowing. Unfortunately, services like hotmail and gmail are anonymous, and forum operators are leery of spam and the potential liability associated with such accounts. It's one more of those cases of a few bad apples making the rest of us radioactive, I'm afraid.

Aren't they rotten?

I've used Sculpey and Fimo a lot in the past, mostly for scale models and to make masters for setting up rubber molds for chess sets and such. Here is a site that you might find both inspirational and informative. This artist uses Fimo, the U.S. equivilent to SuperSculpey. Some astonishing stuff here. http://www.wynbrier.com/Catagories/John_Anderson_FIMO/Jon_Anderson_FIMO.htm

you could ask in the Arts&Crafts forum here - there are some scultors who showed similar projects..

Fran, I happen to do a lot of polymer clay type things (figurines and dollmaking). Sculpey and Premo and Fimo nowdays come in flexible versions too. 
I'm not completely sure if those will give you the skin-like flexible covering of the type that can be found on toys.
For all things polymer clay, you might wanna try http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/
Lot of jewelry there, but you can find some awesome model and doll makers there too :)

Thanks to all for your replies.

**danamo,
**Fimo is much more common here in the UK than Sculpey - unfortunately.  Interesting site that.  Thanks.

**Hypernaut,
I'll certainly take a look over there, thanks.

****Conniekat8,
**Thanks, that forum looks like an interesting place.

I've now done some trial bakes with my newly aquired Sculpey Ultra Light and Sculpey Moldmaker (otherwise called Elasticlay) and the Ultra light is certainly very light indeed, but when thin it's not very flexible and it's very brittle.  So, that's a no go.

Pity, as I now have an almost whole block of it.... (sigh)

The Moldmaker OTOH, is very flexible and when baked will I think work just fine for covering the areas of the model that I need to move, like joints, segments of the tail, neck etc etc.

The only drawback seems to be it's incredible stickiness when you're trying to work with it.

But maybe popping it in the fridge will help it become more workable?  I'll have to see....

Have now discovered that the head (already made and baked...) would mean the end model would be too big, or else the head too big for the body, so I've scrapped that... well, not literally, I'll keep the head and maybe one day complete the model for it, turn it into a solid unmoving model, just for show maybe.

But the animatable model is being redone from scratch - again.

Now making it from copper wire and soldering copper wire rings at strategic points along the length of the armature - I'm not, husband Ian is busy soldering as I speak.  Occasionally he gets me to hold something and he's working from my pencil sketch of the dragon.  So, at the moment it's a joint effort.

Oh well, he's bought himself a new soldering iron on the strength of it.  The last one he bought is about.... 20 years old.

He's been very rude about my chicken wire and pink sculpey version - he called it a pink... um... can't use that word on here.

(rofl)

But it's long and about 2 inches thick, and pink and fleshy looking..... (snigger)   Use your imagination....

Quote - The only drawback seems to be it's incredible stickiness when you're trying to work with it.

One thought that comes to mind would be to try latex surgical gloves... they fit tightly so they ought not to interfere with the sculpting process, and they usually come with a small amount of corn starch on them, to keep them from sticking in the box, so they might not stick to the modeling material.

I'll think about it, might be hard to find those.  So I'll try the fridge first.

Sounds cool. Oops, no pun intended, but I'll take it.

If you do want to try the glove idea, and you can't find them anywhere else, Amazon (UK) has several differrent listings, including this one.

I don't know if it's the same in UK....
Here in the states you can get surgical gloves in most better equipped pharmacies.  I never knew that till I needed them to work with polymer clay...  in case any of this helps...   :)

Good grief!  I thought they'd be much harder to find than that.  Thanks, both of you.