RE: Sculptor inquiry

[Todd Marshall <toddsmarshall@earthlink.net>]

Hello,

A neat little trick I learned from the sculptors at Stan Winston's studio
years ago, was to use a heat gun instead of 'baking' Super Sculpty. You can
get much greater detail and you can control the material much better.
David Krentz would be a great guy to answer this kind of question for you.
He is an AMAZING sculptor.
David, and words of advice?!
Hopes this helps a little. :)

Cheers,
Todd
www.marshalls-art.com


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
ptnorton
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:40 PM
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Subject: Sculptor inquiry

For the paleosculptors on the list, I'm looking for a non-shrinking, 
self-hardening material that can be used over a wire armature. My project is

sculpting a replica of a phorusrhacid skull that, as you all know, has a 
number of openings, struts and sheets of relatively thin bone. I have the 
skull modeled in wire and wire mesh, but haven't found the right material 
yet to use to put the "bone" on the wire infrastructure. I'm familiar with 
the common sculpting materials such as self-hardening clays (which shrink 
when drying) and sculpy (which shrinks a little and also needs to be baked).

I need something that can be worked, but that doesn't need to be baked, 
doesn't shrink when it dries and that dries hard enough to be reworked 
(carved and sanded) and cast once the original is finished.

Thanks. Any suggestions or references to specific materials would be 
appreciated.

PTJN