Materials Question about sculpey (My Elf doll)....

Sculpey III could hold up, yes, if sculpted properly, but Super Sculpey would be a better choice because it is much stronger. I've made an elf head (Arwen) and 2 whole dolls from Super sculpey and they have all held up perfectly. I can only see them breaking if I dropped them by accident (*knocks on wood* I hope that never happens!)

I actully did drop Jaquel's body (His head and front legs were strung at the time) yesterday from a height of about 4 feet onto a hard carpet ops: And he was fine! *whew!* I was impressed. :grin:

Casting this in resin or plastic would always be the best final choice of course, (It's more durable) but it's an expensive, kinda complicated process. Me and my girlfriend are going to be undertaking it on my next big doll. You can try it too! It's all up to what you want to accomplish in the end. ^__^

But yea, Super Sculpey is just fine for a custom made doll head for yourself. You can't mass produce it but it holds up great.

 

ops: I mistakenly bought regular white sculpey the first time...Ive dropped that poor little head on the floor from the table about 5 times and havent even chipped the nose!

 

…PookieNoodle you dropped a white sculpey head 5 TIMES and it didn’t break? woah cool! Yes, the thinner you make sculpey the weaker it us (duh) so if the head was thick it could have survived that I guess… XD Wow!

Thanks! I am always happy to hear about others liking my work!

A whole doll from Sculpey III…I guess you could. I still recommend the Super Sculpey though. It should be available at any Michaels Craft store or any other major craft place (Like Treasure Island, JoAnns might have it). It sands nicer and is a firmer, so you can get more details with it and it won’t squish in your hands as you try to work with it. ^_^ Also it is much stronger.

As for varying thickness, don’t worry, it should be okay as long as you don’t have 5mm thin stuff baking with parts that are an inch thick. As a general rule for Sculpey, UNDERBAKING a little is better than OVERBAKING. Overbaking causes burning, toxic fumes, and makes it brittle. For Nixie’s body I baked it about 25-ish minutes, and she had thick parts like her breasts, and thinner parts on her neck, and all was okay. I'd never bake a Super Sculpey or Sculpey III figure longer than 30 minutes at a time, even it it was an inch thick, because it would start to burn.

 

wow you can make dolls with super scupley? geez I play with that all the time. we have loads of it in school. I study animation.. hmm maybe I should try make a small one when i've got my tiffee? so I now how it all works.. But on second thought.. no. I suck at scuplting. but you all are VERY talented. '

good lucky!

 

**sighs** Does anyone know how much Super Sculpey costs?

Oh, and my dad was going downtown, so I gave him a note with "SUPER SCULPEY, 8 lb box" written on it in big letters, to give to the clerk at Michaels...and they went and got him a box of the regular WHITE Sculpey. So, now I've got to go return it. **grumbles**

 

erm, I went and picked up some clay at Pat Catans, and I bought "Premo SUper Sculpey?" It's not with me not, but I am not so sure that is is 'super sculpey' or something. That should work, yes? I intend to make a full doll out of it, after all.

 

XD stupid Michaels clerks....

Yea, Super Sculpey comes in little one pound boxes or the BIG box. For a one pound box it is about 8 - 10 dollars.

This is what the one pound box looks like:

Sure you can! It's a quite strong polymer clay. :grin: I made two BJD's from it so far. I've also been using it for over 8 years (polymer clay in general for 10 years) and love the stuff. :grin:

 

There are a couple of other strong clays--Cernit, Fimo, Promat. (I looked up a polymer clay FAQ for this info (http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/pcc/pcfaq2.html#brands )

Cernit & Fimo are made in Germany, so they may be easier to find in Sweden.

Super Sculpey is from the US.
But if you can find Sculpey III, I'm surprised that you can't find Super Sculpey.
Perhaps a manager of the store carrying the Sculpey III can special-order the Super Sculpey? But that might be too much trouble for you. Sorry. (hangs head)

Good luck with the sculpting & the supplies.

Ann in CT