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Materials InstaMorph - Moldable Plastic ?

Jul 9, 2012

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    1. hello, i just found this product today on amazon, its a moldable plastic, has anyone ever used this stuff before?

      its pretty neat because you can heat it up and mold it and shape it how you want and then when it cools to room temperature it becomes
      hard plastic, and you can reheat it again and remold it as many times as you want!
      pretty neat ;)

      heres a video i foud of this stuff
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L3C1R8X2tg
       
      #1 GuroDoLL 1, Jul 9, 2012
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    2. It originally comes in little beads? I have something very similar here, to heat up with boiling water and then shape. Not very useful for anything that I have thought of so far, but definitely nifty an the fact that it is reuseable means you will never really run out or waste any material, so it can come in handy for making little push-molds and things.
       
      #2 twigling, Jul 10, 2012
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    3. hmm i was thinking maybe it can be used as a base, for apoxy sculptors. You start off with this blob of plastic which you shape into a torso then when it cools and hardens
      you work on top of it in layers with apoxy, and when you have enough apoxy layers over the instamorph base, then you can boil it and the base will soften and come out, OR
      i just thought of this now XD maybe it can be used as a base for hollow parts of a leg or arms and then you sculpt over that with either apoxy or sculpey, then you
      can boil it and the sculpey become hard and the instamorph will soften and fall out ;)
       
      #3 GuroDoLL 1, Jul 10, 2012
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    4. Good ideas, but let me tell you it would be no easier to get it out from the inside of things than masking tape, al-foil or styrofoam. It is very hot when soft, and will likely just come apart in smaller fragments before it starts to cool (which it also does pretty quickly) and harden again. Worth a try though, I suppose.
       
      #4 twigling, Jul 10, 2012
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    5. yeah, it was just an idea, i dont think ill try it though, it doesnt look too sculptor friendly, im gonna go for apoxy sculpt ^_^
       
      #5 GuroDoLL 1, Jul 11, 2012
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    6. I've tried using this stuff. It's good for molding small things like spheres for joints, but if you want detail then it doesn't work all that well. There's also a limit to how many times you can reuse it as a mold, due to water or airbubbles getting trapped in the material after one or two molds.
       
      #6 saibrrmen, Jul 11, 2012
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    7. like others above I would agree its not very sculpter friendly... however i use it as a base for my faces instead of using foil (just the face so no digging out just lift the face off when i need to bake it)
      as for other uses it goes hard really quickly so unless you need only basic shaps it will be difficult, for beads, think of pizza cheese, the rod will go though but wont get a good surface unless you re heat and then it tends to stick to itself.

      things it is great for though: bases to sculpt on, simple push moulds, custom tool (if they dont need to be too firm) and possibly bases for the
      hand and ankle joint of really small sculpts if you happy not to use a baking medium over it (it is reusable but if it get too hot it will turn to glue and be ruined)

      Just my 2p :)

      spent so much time messing about with this stuff!!!
       
      #7 JetpackJumper, Jul 11, 2012
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