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Originally Posted by siegaard
Ever since midwestclay.com stopped selling the "Grey Sculpting Compound" to me, I've developed a matching hand-mixed formula using Premo & Super Sculpey.
1 of the 4 extruded bars that come in a 1 LB pack of Beige Super Sculpey
1/2 extruded bars of Premo White from the 2 OZ bar.
1/4 extruded bar of black Premo from 2 OZ bar.
This mix matches pretty closely the Polyform Grey Compound. This mix with premo gives the baked sculpt crack resistance and flexiblity.
I agree that all crack repairs have to wait until the final bake and cool-down and 24 hours cold before repairing hairline cracks by super gluing and shutting crack while it's warm. Big cracks get Aves after sanding and smoothing.
Wayne
www.figuresculpture.net
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Hey siegaard,
I'm with you, on that method -
Back in the late 90s'; Before they ever came out with sculpey grey/firm, I started making my own version of Promat (my favorite of all pc), by mixing ss with
metallic premo grey. Mainly because of detail, primer and visibility issues when using the normal, straight from the box ss. This formula seemed to exhibit, not only, great modeling & carving characteristics but much more durable product after baking. This may have been contributed by the tiny metal flakes mixed in the premo(?)
My local supplier, Pearl, have since pulled up stakes. I've had a hard time trying to find Premo metallic on line. I've had some unfortunate experiences with bad batches of ss firm (on occassion) ordered on line. Recently, I have found sculpey ss firm locally and can check the batch before I buy. Although they don't sell in bulk and the cost winds up killing me.
I'm slowly migrating to wax.