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Fri
What kind of clay do you use again?
Buh, i went and obscured the label with the wire :smallsigh:.
I used Ebenhard Faber's Air Drying clay:
but i suppose any light clay would handle similarly.
Like i said, I actually haven't worked with the this stuff much. Satori was my first foray with it.
It heavily subverts most of the limits of common clay, but chances are there is some drawback i have yet to stumble upon :smalltongue:.
I made a spare hand to test its limits with actually:
As you can see, you can saw, file and whittle it, sort of like very soft wood. The fingers on that are approximately 2mm thick, but have to be bent rather forcibly to snap them,
though once it gives, it cracks. I have tossed it at the wooden floor from a height of ~1,5m, so unless you have some strange gaming habits, it should survive use as a mini.
Though i haven't tossed a painted piece at the ground, i can barely imagine the case ever coming up :smalltongue:.
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Fri
since it's air drying, do you really have to work very fast?
The air drying is something to keep in mind, yes. Generally, finish a section before moving onwards, since once its dry that's pretty much it. If there is a strange angle or some other flaw, it will be a pain to fix afterwards.
It can be kept pliable by regularly applying water to it, and this particular mass allows sticking fresh mass to already dried mass, as long as both surfaces are wet.
Though i'm not 100% sure on how well that works out, Suwako is going to be my test dummy for that actually.
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Fri
I'd really like to make some figurine as well
Now, how much experience you have with clay/similar? What sort of figurine do you have in mind?
Though im not sure if im the best person to ask for tips, my methods were often at odds with the teachers ideas back in Arts class.
Still, i recommend you get yourself some mass of the non-drying variety and fiddle around with it a bit. I like to 'sketch' my works out first, see if its feasible before i pop open the perma-drying stuff. Besides, if i did everything from perma-mass, id be swimming in them figurines by now :smalltongue:.
As far as use as gaming minis goes though, that depends heavily on scale. Patchy here* is ~7,5cm high, and about as small as i can go before i start to lose detail something severe. So for most tabletop games, stuff like giants, golems**, dragons, maybe mecha.
Those are doable for me. As i suck at knifework. Patchy there was made 100% by hand.
So for anything smaller than that, i have no clue :smalltongue:
*Yay for a better camera & non-blurry pics :smallsmile::
**Here's something i made a while back, when i hadn't even considered posting stuff online. Excuse the dust :smalltongue::