Skillfully Some time ago at the fair in Vicenza (by getting lost, even though very poor with regard to polymer clay) I came across a stand who sold the Studio by Sculpey, a modeling clay relatively new (it's on the market a few years), and virtually unavailable outside the United States. Obviously I could not try it (and I think ...), so I bought two loaves. The price was not excessive after all, I seem to remember that it was € 2.80 for 80 ounces, the packages are cute (they look like chocolate bars) and the range of colors I like. The names of the colors are beautiful (to say the white is not white, but is called "whipped cream" and the black "after midnight").
That said, we come to more concrete things, that is, when I opened the dough balls and I started working on: the dough is very soft, moooolto softer, yet soft fimo soft, which already is a lot, does not need to be handled almost before you start work, and this is good, the bad thing is that with pasta so soft most of the techniques that use to make my beads (for example, murrine, but only crude holes in the beads without distortion) becomes impossible. The only thing that consistency makes it easy to work are the swirl, you can do with much less effort. Frankly, the raw dough has a consistency very pleasant to the touch, almost silky, and pasta, though soft, it becomes sticky. Once cooked, the surface can be easily smoothed with sandpaper, such as polymer clay, but when I tried to polish with the Dremel using discs of felt, a disaster is not polished in any way! (With the paint I have not tried it yet).
So: although it is very attractive this pasta is not for me or at least not good for the production of my jewelry to the point of replacing the fimo ... Too bad, the colors were just beautiful ...
Some of you have tried it by chance? I'd like to know your impressions!
That said, we come to more concrete things, that is, when I opened the dough balls and I started working on: the dough is very soft, moooolto softer, yet soft fimo soft, which already is a lot, does not need to be handled almost before you start work, and this is good, the bad thing is that with pasta so soft most of the techniques that use to make my beads (for example, murrine, but only crude holes in the beads without distortion) becomes impossible. The only thing that consistency makes it easy to work are the swirl, you can do with much less effort. Frankly, the raw dough has a consistency very pleasant to the touch, almost silky, and pasta, though soft, it becomes sticky. Once cooked, the surface can be easily smoothed with sandpaper, such as polymer clay, but when I tried to polish with the Dremel using discs of felt, a disaster is not polished in any way! (With the paint I have not tried it yet).
So: although it is very attractive this pasta is not for me or at least not good for the production of my jewelry to the point of replacing the fimo ... Too bad, the colors were just beautiful ...
Some of you have tried it by chance? I'd like to know your impressions!
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