[TheForge] "sculpting clay"

Fri Sep 19 14:20:31 2003

I know modeling clay by the name "plasticine", avaialble at art supply
stores.  I believe it's clay made up with an oil.  Comes in natural
colors as well as with various dyes.  Also comes in various hardnesses.
I don't consider it ideal.

I read recently that you can mix dry clay with glycerin to produce a
modeling clay.

Bruce
NJ

>>> [email protected] 09/19/03 01:30PM >>>
Hey All

A while ago i was at a friend's who shared his workshop with a
blacksmith
who used to own a foundry and was a part time sculptor. I remember
seeing a
large hand that he had modelled out of what he called plastercine and
he
said that i could make it myself and that he had the "recipe" for me.
Well,
as things go i never got the recipe and have since lost touch with the
friend and now i want to make some of that stuff.

I have done some google-ing and it appears that plastercine is the
trademark
of a UK toy company so that isn't what i am looking for. If i remember
correctly it was very dark brown almost black,  slightly sticky and it
was
quite firm when compared with regular clay and it never dries. I want
to use
it to model with and then make casts from. I have come accross
plastiline
( an oil based clay) - is this what i am looking for? Does anyone know
what
that sort of stuff is and if so, how and with what do i make it? Also,
where
can i purchase the necessary ingredients?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Sheldon laing
Hephaestus Forge
Cape Town
South Africa

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