Thread: Homemade modeling Clay recipe

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Great cheap and easy tutorial! Definitely worth a try. I'm pretty sure I have the ingredients laying around the house. Might give it a go this weekend.

So would this work for sculpting skulls and other bones? Or do you have to work with it over something else? I wonder if you could cast with it...

It depends on how smooth you make it. I have noticed that while sculpting with it if you moisten your finger with water you can make it very smooth. I ran my fingers over the wounds on the paper mache mask and there still smooth. I hope to get the mask painted later today and I'll upload a pic. I'm still experimenting with this stuff myself. I hope to get another head sculpted with it in the next few days. I want to keep this head smooth so I know more when that sculpt has dried.

@Crunch I would sculpt it over something if you are making large projects, but all you need is a rolled up piece of newspaper. I haven't tried sculpting anything without an armature except teeth and other small items. I made a nose for practice without an armature and an ear, but for heads and hands I used an armature. It's worth a try without an armature but I don't know from experience how it would go