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You can use the Noah tourial on fimo (I have done that with a pretty good result). The only thing you have to be careful about is to make the hollow limbs thick enough, and to reinforce the fingers with wire so they don't break of (like they did on my boy).

Personally, for the head I use the kind of egg-shapet paper balls you can buy in craft stores to easter to have inside the head, then open the head cap after it has been baked (difficult, but I'm not brave enough to do it any other way). You coud also make a core from aluminium foil to be removed after baking (just make sure the aluminium foil ball is smooth, so it don't get too meshed with the fimo, since this would make it more difficult to remove after baking).

Tourials (for normal clay, but works like a charm with fimo/cernit as well (I haven't tried other types yet)) are for example http://www.lewisgoldsteinartanddesign.com/DollTutorialFS.htm. Google for more.

I make the doll part by part (upper arm one part, lower arm one part, joint one part, hand one part, wrist one part) with an aluminium core. Wire armature would really mess up the removing of the thing, so I don't reccomend that.

Here is another doll tourial, but I have yet to see anyone made for fimo/polymer clay
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/haru/doll/make/makeindex.htm

Good luck!

 

You can not bake styrophoam. Even with the low temperatures you use with fimo there is a risque that it will react chemically/burn/melt and make a mess out of your doll. Aluminium foil would be your best bet.

And I know what you are talking about when it comes to lack of craft stuff. I live in a country with 4.5 mill population and when I lived at home, I had to drive for three hours just to get fimo. Other crafts were easyer because of a brilliant shop in my town, but now I'm struggeling hard to find what I need (no sandpaper that's fine enough, no super sculpey, none of the ingredients you need for the Noah doll... )

Good luck on your doll and make sure to post a LOT of pictures when you're finished. I want to see what you do

 

Hehe. Right now I live in a town that actually sells it in the shops. But if I move again, I might be interested.

 

Take a look at Lithe finder's posts here in the artists forums, she's got the best advice for making a BJD out of sculpey. I use wooden balls for the balls in the joints for my doll, you have to redrill part of them a little bit, there's a diagram in my thread too. It's all really fun! Good luck!