Materials Working with Super Sculpey

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1) I use tin foil wrapped in tape. I haven't tried it not wrapped in tape, so I don't know what the difference is.

2) I remove it with pliers. Twisting them before you pull helps sometimes.

3) After it's baked.

4) I don't know. I cut off the head cap before I baked...

5) I find it really tough to sand Super Sculpey. If the head is too thick inside, I carve it out. Be careful, since it seems to come off in chunks.

6) That's hard, I hate doing that XP Even if it's before I bake...
I carved out big holes in my doll's head, all the way to the core. After I baked it, I took out the core, put in some beads and shaped the eyes around them. I've decided I like baking the head before I've finished sculpting because then I don't have to worry about squishing parts by mistake as much.

 

Make an aluminium ball and build your head arround it, the eyes I personnally roughly dig out, just enought so that when it's backed and I'm looking inside the head, i'll know where to dig to cute them out more cleanly. I cut the cap prior to baking because it chips on the side when I cut it once backed. I don't remove the cap of anything, I just slice with the kife arround the head trying to to change any of the shape and bake, then once it's all solid I take the two piece appart and take off the aluminium, to make it cleaner I'll carve out the extras stuff and if you ever break of take to much stuff out, you can fix it with new sculpey and re-bake it but the already baked sculey will take a chocolat brown color so if your not using it to make a base for a resine prototype BJD you'll have to paint over the whole body or try not to screw up.

Don't use tape if your going to bake it though, chances are it'll melt.

 

Well, I'd show you a doll I made totally out of SS, but DoA won't post my topic or notify me.

 

I used a foil ball for my armature. I went ahead and cut off my head cap because I just personally find it easier to slice through unbaked clay than to try to have to saw through baked clay. After I did this I started digging out my armature, and I also used tweezers to pick out my foil armature. I think as long as you are patient and careful you can get the ball out before baking without ruining the head form, at least I have been able to. Right now I am smoothing the inside, carving out the eye sockets so my eyes will fit in and I plan on refining the headcap all before I bake it, which I am hoping to do tomorrow or sometime over the weekend.

 

i) it was a full head....ss insinde heh

2)i froze the head and carved away at the inside. Then after baking it i carved the head while it was cooling (the ss was still soft) and then dremelled and sanded

c) both actually...as far as foil goes i think i'd either freeze the ss or half-bake it. then remove it. and bake/finnish bake

IV) well...if you can drill SS you can saw it. I'd practice that tho just to be safe. Once again i'll repeat myself...if you freeze the head it will be hard enough to remove the headcap without squishing anything

5) absolutivly.

vi) oh def. Just drill it, carve at it, and dremel at it. Actually, its recomended for opening resin doll heads to make the eyeball hollow from the inside first, then cut the eyehole out.

 

Chocolate brown? Melting tape? How exactly do you go about baking your SS??

Even if I bake my SS 3 times it doesn't change color, and the tape's never melted, it just makes it so I don't have to pick out foil bits.
Though if I'm baking more than once, sometimes I bake it a few minutes less than usual. But I don't think it really makes a difference.