[Woodcarver] Plastina Clay

[Mike Bloomquist]

Bob,

I use a wire-n-roller cheese cutter to take of thin slabs of Plastelina, then place them under a 60watt desk lamp.  Softens them up real fine, and makes it really easy to work.  I find if you want detail though you build up the area with more than you need, let it cool and then carve it away to your final shape and detail it with clay tools (wire hoops, metal scorps, wooden blades, etc).

If you use a wire armature (like a wire skeleton) and have large areas like, say, the chest and belly area of a horse, form balls of crushed tin foil around the armature in those areas as filler and cover them with the plastelina.  This uses less plastelina and the less dense tin foil helps avoid support problems and sagging.

It's wonderful stuff, and reuseable... just little "different" from clay.  Hope this helps.

-Mike B.->
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  From: Bob Campanaro 
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  Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:29 PM
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  Yeah know... I've got 5 lbs of plastina that I bought several months ago and have yet to use it much.  It seems extremely hard. Now I haven't played with clay since grade school but I'm assuming this stuff isn't 'Play-Doh'.  Is there anything special that I need to do to it to make it more plyable?
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  Bob Campanaro
  re2camp at aol.com
  Stowe, VT




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