For you Harry Potter fans...

[calzephyr]

Neat custom - regular model horse into a Thestral. I still haven't gotten my hands on some Apoxie Sculpt :-)

In air drying clay news, I kind of like the no bake craft porcelain. I bought it with a coupon and have been using it for various things. It's a still a tad expensive ($16) but it seems to go a long way. Like all clay, it seems to require some practice - you can use water with it, but it gets really sticky. Oh, and it also smells like white glue. It dries to a nice, hard piece with a pleasant texture.

I had another coupon, so I bought a package of Dry Hard Clay by the Laguna Clay Company. It has a smell that I think some would find pleasant, but I don't. I may have to invest in a respirator as well - the ACAD bookstore sells good ones - there was a warning on the box about inhaling clay dust when sanding a dried product.

Comments

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I want to see that custom thestral :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Oh doh, I didn't paste the link in!

Here it is:

http://community.livejournal.com/breyerhorses/30601.html#cutid1

There was another one that I can't find now - I think the ad expired - but it was based on this model -

http://www.candaceliddy.homestead.com/Bones.html

and was painted glossy black. The wings were good, but not as appealing as the former.

[tooaquarius.livejournal.com]

Yep, always use at least a partical mask when you sand dry - fine particled items are heck on your lungs.

This is why the poly clayers wet sand (and I still use a mask when I have lots of wet sanding to do) but I imagine if you are using an air dry clay, wet sanding wouldn't be the way to go.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I imagine the pieces would melt into goo! I do have some particle masks. I won't be using this new clay until I can get something better, the warning kinda scared me!

I had to look wet sanding up, as I hadn't heard of this technique before.

Oh, I finally had a chance to go to the art market yesterday, but when I got there it was cancelled. What a bummer!