FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Mar 12, 2007 · 19 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 19 March 2007 at 5:07 PM
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....
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)