Post by Pirate Wench on Oct 20, 2005 22:36:21 GMT 12
yet another two part sculpting medium. I stumbled onto this product as it is the putty of choice for doll artists who do mods to their dolls with it.
Same scenario, two parts, knead em together yadda yadda, cept it is cheap, even with postage from the states it wasn't too bad. I got mine off ebay there's a few sellers who just keep it in stock, but ask around for shipping quote on it, I did find them to be quite varied.
Ok the details, for $12 Us plus about $8 us shipping, so that's like about $28, I got two 227g pots of the stuff, bout half a cup of each part. I did a couple of tests with it. It's quite soft to begin with, rather hard to shape and to get it to stay that way, but fine if you support it with either armature or by draping the piece over the shape you want. It has a working time of 1 - 3 hours. I would leave it at least 15 - 30 minutes to get it to a firm enough point to sculpt with it. It cures very firm/brittle. Not flexible like greenstuff so I'd probably not want to use it for cloaks or thin things.
It sands and carves brilliantly, it's also really useful for home repairs! heh, I used it to fix up a screw in my back door catch that had chewed out too much wood and was just floating there and thus my door didn't shut properly, a decent kick would open it. I wrapped the screw in apoxie and threaded it back in, it's solid as a rock now.... I just hope I never need to take the catch off.
Anyway, as an alternative to kneadit I give this a total thumbs up, it has a longer working time, and is easier to work finer details into, and costs less than the equivalent weight of kneadit
Same scenario, two parts, knead em together yadda yadda, cept it is cheap, even with postage from the states it wasn't too bad. I got mine off ebay there's a few sellers who just keep it in stock, but ask around for shipping quote on it, I did find them to be quite varied.
Ok the details, for $12 Us plus about $8 us shipping, so that's like about $28, I got two 227g pots of the stuff, bout half a cup of each part. I did a couple of tests with it. It's quite soft to begin with, rather hard to shape and to get it to stay that way, but fine if you support it with either armature or by draping the piece over the shape you want. It has a working time of 1 - 3 hours. I would leave it at least 15 - 30 minutes to get it to a firm enough point to sculpt with it. It cures very firm/brittle. Not flexible like greenstuff so I'd probably not want to use it for cloaks or thin things.
It sands and carves brilliantly, it's also really useful for home repairs! heh, I used it to fix up a screw in my back door catch that had chewed out too much wood and was just floating there and thus my door didn't shut properly, a decent kick would open it. I wrapped the screw in apoxie and threaded it back in, it's solid as a rock now.... I just hope I never need to take the catch off.
Anyway, as an alternative to kneadit I give this a total thumbs up, it has a longer working time, and is easier to work finer details into, and costs less than the equivalent weight of kneadit