Wake
Super Freak
This looks awesome. I wanna check these out.
Ok so here are my (belated) impressions of this stuff. Bear in mind that this is in relation to how I'm used to working so I don't want to sound like I'm slagging it off, but I don't think this is the material for me. I've used Super Sculpey Firm for three years and Casteline Hard for the last six months.
The good: I love the colour and matte surface texture, the casts I made from silicone moulds of some of my old heads looked just like untextured 3d model renders on the computer. Well, apart from the bubbles. It would be very easy to see what you're doing with every last detail while sculpting and it must photograph very well too I imagine.
The less good: To reiterate this is just how I work so these aren't necessarily product flaws but they make it no good for me. When the leaflet in the packet said hard as plastic at room temperature they meant it. I'd liken it to a decent bar of dark chocolate just taken out of the freezer. You can scratch it with a pin but it's very brittle and shatters or flakes if you try to carve it. You can heat it up with your lamp, obviously, but it cools incredibly quickly so you'd need to hold it one or two inches from the lamp permanently while you worked it if you're not using an electric tool. Holding my carver in a flame then carving a little bit then back to the flame resulted in the CX5 melting to very liquid state when I first touched the tool to it then rapidly hardening again to unworkable within seconds. Basically unless you work with an electric Wax Pen as your only tool I can't see you getting very far with this. Which seems a problem for 1/6 scale as I've never seen small detail tips available for electric pens, not like the sewing needle size ones we need for corners of mouths and eyelids and so on. This testing was done in England in January by the way, Hawaiian and Arizonan board members might have more luck.
The quite bad: This stuff smells pretty bad when it's hot. It's a kind of artificial spice type smell which gives the impression to me that CX5 naturally smelled bad and they tried to add a strong perfume to cover it up. Whatever the reason behind it though the effect is not good at all. At first it's a kind of soft pleasant cinnamon spice like standing just outside Santa's Grotto or something but after half an hour its like the elves are holding you down while Santa forces your nose into his armpit. I wouldn't like to have a pot of it in a melter next to me for a whole afternoon.
Holding my carver in a flame then carving a little bit then back to the flame resulted in the CX5 melting to very liquid state when I first touched the tool to it then rapidly hardening again to unworkable within seconds. Basically unless you work with an electric Wax Pen as your only tool I can't see you getting very far with this.
The quite bad: This stuff smells pretty bad when it's hot. It's a kind of artificial spice type smell which gives the impression to me that CX5 naturally smelled bad and they tried to add a strong perfume to cover it up.
I'm also just a bum, to be clear.
No, I've only ever tried SuperSculpey, Sculpey Firm, and CX5. I'm also just a bum, to be clear. I'm just a beginner with sculpting, still struggling with basic things and have very limited experience, so I'm no one to really comment on what might be best and whatnot.