Sculpey III

[bjack99]

Hello

I am trying to use sculpey for the first team. It seems to be tacky and that is making it hard to work with. am i doing something wrong? i have never sculpted before so I may be missing something obvious.

[spiderrogue]

i used to use that stuff..but then i found just regular sculpy and walmart....it's like 5 bucks for a huge chunk of it. and i think that a lot of people on here use aves apoxy or milliput(which i have used before too...)....i think that it's just a matter of personal preference....
as for the sticky part...use water dabbed on your hands or working tools...that helps a lot...and knead it around a bit before you use it....that helps too...
anyone else got more suggestions?

[bjack99]

thank you. that helped.

[Cadmus Customs]

Some people sculpt using latex gloves to avoid fingerprints. I just dampen my fingers with water (or saliva) and gently run it over a rough area and that smooths it out. Once finished, I dab a Q-Tip in rubbing alcohol and smooth it out some more before I cure it.

Joel

[Cosmicman]

I usually apply the sculptey to the figure and bake it with one of those long grill lighters, section by section.
Then after I apply the paint only after the sculptey is completely hard (I am sure I will get a Beavis and Butthead chuckle somewhere for that one).

One thing you can do is paint it too early (before it is all the way baked). Make sure that lighter bakes that stuff completely hard. I have had to redo some sculptey heads after the paint would never dry completely because I didn't bake the sculptey all the way through.

My brother makes custom lead/pewter game pieces by adding extra stuff for the pieces out of sculptey. One time he stuck the whole figure in the oven for a few minutes on a metal cookie sheet. He waited a few minutes and opened the oven and it was a big puddle of silver liquid on the cookie sheet. Ha Ha

Then I came up with the apply the sculptey to the fgure and bake it to the lighter trick.

[spiderrogue]

i usually boil mine in a pot of water...it's a lot easier then baking it...back in the day, i used to use a heat gun to do it..but that sucked...

[bjack99]

thank you all for your help.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I use Super Sculpey a lot. It's not very sticky, and as long as you keep it cool it'll last FOREVER! (I'm still using a block I bought over ten years ago.) I use it for the base of a lot of my heads. It doesn't hold detail so good, but it's cheap. I have a small toaster oven I use specificly for baking Sculpey.

Once it's hardened and cooled I use epoxy putty for the detail work. (Epoxy putty DOES hold detail real well, but it's expensive.)

Don C.