#sculptish

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So I finally finished sculpey Ford and Stan today; glued the broken bits back on, touched up to the paint, and painted them with white glue as a finisher. (You can still see it drying in a couple places. I'm really impatient.) They've got their problems but what the heck, I'm proud of them. Might try for something a bit smaller next though.

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I’ve spent all day today working on a sculpey Stan and now he’s in the toaster oven. this is always the trickiest part, so wish me luck guys. 

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So sculpey Stan came out pretty well yesterday, except for his head falling off (a minor detail). Today I’m working on sculpey Ford; he and Stan are both going to need some paint jobs and I want to just go ahead and do them both at once. Hopefully this will turn out better than the last time I tried to make Ford. 

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Paper-mache Luxray.

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I used to be really into making things with modeling clay and little Sculpey figures and stuff as a kid, but at some point it kind of fell to the wayside. like so many things. but I saw this cheap 12-pack of Sculpey at Wal-Mart the other day and for some reason entertained the notion of trying to make something again. the colors available in the pack lent themselves pretty well to Ford (tan and beige) so I started there.

(his hair is very hard to translate into 3D, btw.)

however, since this was the first time I was doing this in ages, let’s just say some mistakes were made. 

principally, I had forgotten the dire importance of including some basic armature when working with Sculpey, which will absolutely collapse into a mercurial puddle the moment you give it the chance. I also didn’t give Ford adequate support while he was in the oven, and so when I checked on him I found that his legs had bowed completely over. then his head fell off. along with his legs, and an arm. 

but Stan didn’t give up on Ford and neither did I. the clay hadn’t completely hardened yet, so I was able to reattach some of his extremities with the aid of some bits of wire. the legs were a lost cause, though. around this point I also noticed that he was missing an eyebrow and a couple of fingers.

so, I took him back and made new legs out of fresh clay-along with fingers and an eyebrow-and put him back in the oven with a protective barricade of wadded up tinfoil to prevent more drooping. 

results were...mixed, although overall better. 

in addition to his hand falling off, and coming detached from his stand, he still drooped some, and consequently wound up with a rather awkward posture. 

I guess he looks kind of like he’s charging into action or something.

and then his leg came off anyway. and, while his head remains attached by the wire, it’s only attached by the wire and wobbles around freely. 

I’ll see what I can do with some glue in the morning, but in the meantime, I have to say it does kind of amuse me that of course I had all these problems with Ford. 

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Update on clay Ford: I took a glue gun to him and, while he’s still looking pretty rough, all his parts are now firmly attached in the right places. Given that this is my first project in a long time I’m prepared to call that a win.

Plus, y'know, Ford. Usually looks pretty rough anyway. Maybe the glue is actually slime from some alien thing he got in a fight with. Yeah.