Hey all, I'm doing some fun pieces that involve using super sculpey (the living doll kind for extra strength) and I'm very unsure of how to cure it. I'm laying it over a taxidermy blank, which is a rigid polyfoam cast backed with a wood plate.
I've used sculpey for all sorts of things before but never over anything other than aluminium foil which I know is fine in the oven. I doubt I'll be able to bake this sculpt when it's on the armature and I'm looking into other methods for curing the sculpey. I do have a heat gun, I've heard you can sort of cure sculpts with them if you use it on low and make sure you heat the stuff as evenly as possible, but that kinda worries me as I don't like the idea of half-cured bits and stuff causing it to crack.
Anyone know if wood and polyfoam could survive an oven trip, if it'll kill me (or you know, burn or melt or turn into a toxic goo monster) or whatever?
If not, any alternative methods I could try with my limited equipment would be really cool to know.
Thanks!
I've used sculpey for all sorts of things before but never over anything other than aluminium foil which I know is fine in the oven. I doubt I'll be able to bake this sculpt when it's on the armature and I'm looking into other methods for curing the sculpey. I do have a heat gun, I've heard you can sort of cure sculpts with them if you use it on low and make sure you heat the stuff as evenly as possible, but that kinda worries me as I don't like the idea of half-cured bits and stuff causing it to crack.
Anyone know if wood and polyfoam could survive an oven trip, if it'll kill me (or you know, burn or melt or turn into a toxic goo monster) or whatever?
If not, any alternative methods I could try with my limited equipment would be really cool to know.
Thanks!
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