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Materials Question about resin and polymer clay

Oct 22, 2012

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    1. Hello all,
      It's been a while since I had any hunger for sculpting a BJD lol :)
      It is very time consuming for me, so between the orders and my (regular) limited Edition resins, I don't have enough time to sculpt what I really love; BJDs ;)
      Anyhoo, I am now back, I have finally put through to production a new BJD toddler and I got my hands on one of those D-Base blank head forms in resin.

      It would save me a TON of time between cutting and hollowing my piece but I do not use paper clay (air drying clay).
      I was wondering if anyone was familiar with the melting point of polyurethane resin?
      My clay bakes at 135 Celsius (which I THINK is 375F) and it would need to be in there for 15 mins. I was assured by other artist that you CAN bake resin as they used heat set paints on it (same temp as my clay to cure).
      I guess I can use a heat gun to cure the clay slowly.
      Any advice would be great!!!
      Thanks so much!!!!
      Tina
       
      #1 Miyadorie, Oct 22, 2012
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    2. I would not stick Polyurethane resin in an oven. Ever ever. Heated plastics like resin give off toxic fumes. Combining Resin and polymer clay is very difficult because of this. Work with one or the other, or glue finished pieces of polymer stuff onto resin.
      I've never heard of anyone putting polyurethane in an oven and getting anything good. The only dolls I know of that have heat-set paints have been those reborn dolls and that isn't the same stuff.
       
      #2 Rosslyn, Mar 15, 2013
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    3. I would go with Apoxie Sculpt if you don't want the waiting time of air dry clay. It cures to a similar hardness as resin and is fully hard in under 24 hours... Really, no longer sculptably hard after 3. I wouldn't bake resin for the same reasons as Rosslyn states... Unless you have a separate oven (like a toaster oven) you can place outdoors.
       
      #3 HystericalParoxysm, Mar 16, 2013
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