Hi All

Came across this:-

http://beesputty.com/



It's a heat set plastic polymer used for sculpting. Just wondering about properties and stuff like granularity, etc.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

I've ordered some, I'll tell you.

Might give that a go too  .....Looks like Heresy stock it in the UK.

There are two things I'd need to know.....Does it need to be cured at a temperature that will start melting a metal dolly ?........and.......Does the oven have to be spotless inside  .
(Mine isn't  .....I suppose I could wrap the figure in baking foil)

Nick Bibby used to use Fimo at the Evil Empire, as he was allergic to something in the greenstuff..... and would only use greenstuff to bulk out the 'former' whilst wearing surgical gloves.
HE had his own mini oven in the studio...That's something I don't have at Techno Towers.

Cheers - Phil

It is similar to fimo or super sculpey. Bakes at 120-130•C
The only plus side : it sticks to the wire, no need for an under-layer of green stuff.
I bake my minis in the same oven where I bake my food. (Probably better to invest in a little one and an oven thermometer.

The wife bought one of those mini ovens in Argos for one of her projects.. I think it was about £20

 .....Interesting, Steve......That might be useful !

But from what Yann has said......Doesn't sound like there would be much of advantage (for me ?) in its properties......I dunno.

Would also need to check what it would do in a vulcanizing press.
Fimo had to be sprayed with a very fine coating of graphite, to stop the very outermost layer of the model sticking to the rubber in the mould....and basically ruining the model and that section of the mould.

Cheers - Phil

I guess the "normal" process for a fimo model is to make a resin one first.

Definitely not going into a hot mould.

Quote from: barbarian on 23 January 2016, 01:24:37 PM
I guess the "normal" process for a fimo model is to make a resin one first.

That's certainly one way. Yann.....But Mr Bibby's models went into a 'normal' vulcanizing press, but covered with a sprayed layer of graphite.

(One did 'burst' one time.....because not all the Fimo had 'cooked' in the middle....Wrecked model !!)

Cheers - Phil.

Hello All

Thanks for the replies.

Be interested to hear anybody's experience with this putty. Might get some myself to see what it's like. Will probably get it from the original site since Heresy want to charge me twice the cost of the putty in postage  . Oh why couldn't the factory that brought out the blue/white epoxy strip I used to use stay open instead of closing some 15 years ago.  . Have tried Procreate and other types without success.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

Procreate is an odd putty (to me)....It works really nicely for smoothing and sharp detail.

But I find it so time consuming and difficult to mix thoroughly, even after I've warmed it on the radiator to soften it.
So I tend to use it fairly sparingly.
Clib must have much stronger fingers than yours truly...(actually...most folk probably have)...and he gets superb results from it !

Cheers - Phil