Can BBE eyes be baked?

[retrogradenova]

Just gonna toss this idea in here and see if it helps at all:

When in art school, my professors had us scuplt characters with sculpty for our character design class. Mind that these were liek 8-12 inches tall figures attached to wooden bases. But the professors told us to disregard the instructions on the sculpty packaging in favor of a lower temp and longer cooking time to prevent cracking, burning, damaging, etc... it might work for you. Basically they said this:

Put your sculpture in the oven while it is off.
Then turn the oven on to the lowest temperature it can go to. Let the over do its "preheat" with the sculpture inside.
Let it cook for a couple hours, resisting the urge to open the door to peak (the idea being a rush of air changing the temperature will crack the cooking sculpty)
When you feel it is done, turn off the oven.
Leave sculpture in oven until oven is completely cool.
Then done.

I used this method to add 3-d bits to a plastic picture frame I was working on and seemed to work well. Excepted that I did peak and caused a few cracks in the sculpty itself.      

Hopefully that could be helpful to you

[Taxel]

Taxel, I'm curious of what you plan on doing
Have you looked into other types of clay other than sculpty?

Oh no, now there's expectations! xD Probably a very poor sculpture that I'd end up hating, haha. I make a lot of creature dolls and BBE eyes could be fun to incorporate in some fashion. I'd mostly just be winging it, maybe some BBE cyclops... es?

Air dry clay could maybe work but I'm not a big fan of it. I'm not good at painting so it probably wouldn't turn out very well. Colorful polymer clay is my material of choice whenever I need to make anything.

[sd_dreamcrystal]

Taxel, I'm curious of what you plan on doing
Have you looked into other types of clay other than sculpty?

Oh no, now there's expectations! xD Probably a very poor sculpture that I'd end up hating, haha. I make a lot of creature dolls and BBE eyes could be fun to incorporate in some fashion. I'd mostly just be winging it, maybe some BBE cyclops... es?

Air dry clay could maybe work but I'm not a big fan of it. I'm not good at painting so it probably wouldn't turn out very well. Colorful polymer clay is my material of choice whenever I need to make anything.

Well it's important to remember what BBEs are made of.. Metal, Plastic, Paper (the iris), and Fake hair (Eyelashes). I'd be more worried about the plastic melting

[gemini_pony]

Don't g1 ponies melt in the oven?  Im pretty sure only G3 ponies can withstand the heat of an oven.

I always bake G1's if fact I have baked every generation except 2 and have not done the BBE yet either. so far all held up fine

[mlp4me]

I can tell you what happens to BBE's when you bake them... The blue and black plastic melts! LOL.
My latest victims have been BBE's.
I baked this one upside down. So the plastic melted kinda flat and upward toward the lashes.

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[Taxel]

Dang, I guess that answers that! I like how your victim turned out though. So sparkly

[mlp4me]

Dang, I guess that answers that! I like how your victim turned out though. So sparkly

Well, thank you. Master Splinter is pretty awesome (and kinda creepy like this, lol)!
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