Seperate attached parts

[Teriha]

Strange title, since I find it hard to describe what I mean.

I’ve been doing some sculpting with super sculpey and got some pretty good results so far. I love the ability to rebake and all, and have about 3 finished statues so far… but there is one thing I’d like to get a tip on.

I’d like to make some parts separate from the beginning, to make it easier to cast later on. Details like flowy locks of hair on a characters forehead and such. I can make the head on its own first, all fine and well, but…

Any tips on how I can proceed to make that extra piece while it is somehow on the sculpt, and then remove it afterwards before baking it…? If I do this normally it ends up sticking to the prebaked part, and I can’t take it off easily without skewing it somehow, so it doesn’t fit anymore. And if I use a heatgun directly on the part where it is, I’m worried it gets stuck?

I hope you all know what I mean. Any tips?

[GedTasker]

Someone will probably know more about this but i would suggest using a bit of cling film between the head and the piece of hair your sculpting. You should be able to remove the hair once you've finished without it sticking.

[logan25]

best thing for this is normal washing up liquid, just smooth it on the area sculpt over and it pops right off

[Punishment1218]

You can also use wax paste. This is the available at Walmart in the household cleaning section. It works good for me.

[Teriha]

Interesting. I'll try some of it out and see how it goes! Thank you for the ideas so far.

[Arcusprime]

Another idea, one that I have not tried, is to sculpt the removable part onto the baked sculpey piece, but don't use vaseline as a 'glue' as you would if you wanted the pieces to stick. After baking , the new piece might just be able to pop off. I saw a video on making eyes using a technique like this.

[dhtiffy]

Cling film is the method Ive been advised to use. Seperate then bake seperatley