How to make a fun and unique hybrid clay for sculpting, using modeling clay, beeswax and a few other ingredients! Host: Lazlo J. Luongo Producer/Editor: Adam Nixon Music: www.purple-planet.com
Nice recipe. Just a tip; if you ever make silicone molds from your clay figures, which many modelers do, leave out the rosin, as it can inhibit the silicone curing. Having the clay cool to a very hard finish is great. Always good for sharp details.
Nice tip! I hadn't heard that but I've seen rosin as an ingredient before. As a counter-tip I've seen platinum cure silicone get inhibited where tin cure does just fine, so the type of silicone could be a determining factor in that
I bought some of the oil based clay to play with so I can teach myself how to do cool stuff with clay. I got the oil based just for the fact it doesn't dry out. I will have to try this when I want to start saving my pieces. My grandson and I want to make a fortune figure and will have to use this to make it.
It's a thermoplastic clay. Warm it up and it softens. Let it cool, and it hardens. It doesn't take much to soften it. I usually slice off small pieces and hold them in my fist until they soften, or put it near a light bulb (I use a lamp with a flexible neck and a 60 watt bulb). Or you can put it in a ziploc bag and tuck it under your leg for a few minutes. To cool it you can let it sit for a while, or stick it in the freezer for a minute or two. It firms up hard enough to be permanent, but you can always melt it down and reuse it.
So, I just have a couple questions: does this work with monster clay? If I remelt it, will the ingredients separate? Can its hardness withstand me accidentally dropping it or pressing into it and still retain it's shape with little to no indentation? How hard is it to sculpt with? If you or anyone else who's done this process can answer these questions, that'd be most appreciated! Thanks in advance!👍 P.S. just noticed the reflective painting on the wall next to you is the exact same one my grandma has. Very cool 👌
This is amazing info! Thank you for doing and presenting the research. I'd love to try coloring it. Any thoughts on mixing pigments or precolored clay into it? What about crayons as the wax agent? I hope all is well with Lazlo!
Not that it has anything to do with this process, but four years ago I got eight pounds of Craftsmart plastalina from Michaels here in south Louisiana which I just started opening recently, and then I just went about rolling it all out with the pasta machine yesterday and, oddly enough, the three "flesh"-colored (orange) 1 pound blocks happened to be the last ones I opened, and the first one was not only totally discolored, but hard as a rock (so I guess it has a little to do with the subject matter) and could not be worked at all. The second one was somewhat better, but nonetheless also could not have much done with it without being warmed up, and the third, while it was workable, was pretty crumbly and dry. Sort of like a three bears thing with none of the three actually being just right. On the other hand, every single one of the red and gray ones was readily workable and created PERFECTLY smooth sheets with no problem.
I've heard that that particular brand of beeswax you have in this video isn't pure beeswax but is actually made partially of petroleum based wax. I'd be curious to know how the things you've made with it have turned out.
