modeling clay??

[Guest]

so Im at the paint stage on my Revelle 1/72 U-boat and I have two small pieces missing.
I was thinking of trying to recreate them in clay. Can anyone put me in the right direction of clay that would take acrylic paint well

[Neil Merryweather]

so Im at the paint stage on my Revelle 1/72 U-boat and I have two small pieces missing.
I was thinking of trying to recreate them in clay. Can anyone put me in the right direction of clay that would take acrylic paint well

Hi Erik
I see you are in the US.I'm not sure what brands a there are over there, but in the UK we would use a 2-part epoxy like Milliput or A+B Putty or Magicsculp.
You mix it together like 2 balls of different colour plasticine, until the colour is all the same. You then have about an hour and a half working time, when it gradually gets stiffer as it cures, until you can't do anything with it at all. It's best to lubricate your sculpting tools with water , talc or vaseline,because it is quite sticky at first. Wash your hands after you have mixed it and before you start working, as it is tough to remove once it has cured.
If you are clever you can use the later stages of the curing process to refine and'polish' the surface as it gets firmer.it can be sanded or carved if necessary once it has cured. The advantage it has over air drying clays like Das is that it doesn't shrink.
You could also use a thermo-setting clay like Fimo, or Super Sculpey but only if you can put it in the oven without the rest of the model.....
hope this helps
cheers
Neil

[Guest]

so Im at the paint stage on my Revelle 1/72 U-boat and I have two small pieces missing.
I was thinking of trying to recreate them in clay.

What kind of pieces are we talking about? There may be simpler (or at least other) ways to make them.

Can anyone put me in the right direction of clay that would take acrylic paint well

As already mentioned, two-part epoxy putty is a good modelling medium. More expensive than clay, but its great advantage is that it doesn’t shrink, and additionally it doesn’t soak up paint and doesn’t crack like clay might.

[minitnkr]

Plasticene is what you want if you're going to sculpt something in the US. Cheap, holds its' shape over time & doesn't crack like plane clay. I have sculptures over 30 years old looked just like new until I kneaded some up to do other sculpts. Great stuff. Takes paint just fine. I used it for all my sandbags in the BW Lager Dio. PaulE