a warning

[freakinacage]

just to warn you, if you leave fimo on plastic, it melts it. never realised that before

found this out the hard way as a few bits of plastic knackered some plastic minis! it doesn\'t set either, it stays gelatinous

learn from my mistakes

 

[Amazon warrior]

Duly noted. Hope nothing too important got wrecked!

 

[generulpoleaxe]

you can scrape that bit out and then resculpt the damaged section.

 

[ScottRadom]

Well that was waaaaaaay less ominous then the subject title indicated.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
you can scrape that bit out and then resculpt the damaged section.

yeah but it\'s still a pain in the arse and some of the bits are too technical for my meagre sculpting skills, and thus, beyond redemption!

sorry to disappoint scott

 

[Crayfish]

Yeah, i also had to learn this the hard way, i used it to hold bases on to bottlecaps so i could paint them without ruining the paint job, then when i took the base of it was holes in it!... well well, we all have to learn new things dont we ;D

 

[QuietiManes]

You\'d think more of us would realize that the stuff that keeps the plastic soft in the clay might leach out? But no. lol

I had to learn the hard way too...but in an easy way, as far as that goes. I was sculpting a large elephant (5\" to the top of the shoulders/head) since my GF at the time liked elephants and I had mixed up a massive \"elephant grey\" mound of clay for the project. Anyway, I stored the project and the mound of clay to be used later on this old school binder. You know the ones, cardboard wrapped in plastic? Anyway, when I lifted the clay off the binder after it sat there for a few weeks the plastic was all warped and blistered.

I\'m currently wondering what the long term affects will be on my clay shapers...or if I make some of those teflon tools, what polymer clay would do to those. Probably nothing.