Help with Verlinden resin

[paul ryall]

Hello Everyone

This will sound strange but here goes. After waiting for some company to sculpt some 120mm U.S army modern OIF figures lying down shooting, I have decided to try and do part of one myself

But I need to know something. I have verlinden parts I want to use ( whole torso area). I want to do it as a whole figure using super sculpey because other parts of clothing/wrinkles will be added to the torso but not all over it.

So my question is, if I put the whole body in the oven( including verlinden torso ) to bake the super sculpey will the verlinden torso survive the ten or so minutes of baking

Any help on this matter would be great.;

Thanks
Paul

 

[Jon Metters]

Not sure. But perhaps yopu could put in a scrap Verlinden arm or leg and see what happens?

Jon

 

[BHowe]

Hi Paul,

You should have no problems baking a resin piece; I usually 'cook' figures in a crock pot/slow cooker to accelerate the drying/oxidation of oil paints, and have never experienced any difficulties with the resin. I have heard stories of older resin castings the 'oozed goop' when heated, have never experienced this myself.

However, one potential problem might arise when heating the piece, in that resin and Sculpey may react differently to the increase in temperature: each might expand at different rates when heated, and contract at different rates when cooling. This could result in cracking, or separation where the Sculpey meets the resin.

Jon's suggestion is great! Experiment with heating the resin, as well as heating a piece or resin with sculpey applied. You could even use part of the resin casting plug from the figure. Hope this helps,

Bob Howe

 

[Frank-Holger]

To avoid all these problems, use Magic Sculpt, Miliput or something like that. No baking, but very smoothe to use, you can highly detail your figures with that. And the working is more or less the same when using SS.

Frank

 

[Jeff]

I have had no problems baking their figures but they do seem to use a stinky resin and it just gets worse when it is heated up.

 

[Dan Morton]

I'm with Frank on this one. You'll have a much easier time of it working with Magic Sculpt and won't have to deal with the unequal heating, expansion and contraction problems. I've used resin parts from half a dozen firms with MS and never had a shrinkage problem.

Good luck!

All the best,
Dan