[TheForge] "sculpting clay"

[The Millers]

I just took a sculpture foundry class and we used something that was 
very dark brown, almost black, but is was
a microcrystaline wax. It is sold at art supply stores, casting supply 
houses and the class bought there's in 50 pound lots from
Kindt-Collins in Cleveland. You warm the wax up in hot water for rough 
shaping, then used clay tools or almost anything for shaping, carving, 
etc.  Then we "invested" the wax in plaster for lost wax casting. I 
guess an alternative would be to use a fleximold compound and then you 
could produce multiples.

Ray Miller
Cincinnati


On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 01:30 PM, Sheldon wrote:

> 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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