Customizing question: Has anyone stuck one in an oven yet?

[DGRequiem]

Air dry sculpy is nice, but it doesn't adhere very well.  Apoxie is also nice, but really heavy if doing a lot of mods! 

So... has anyone tried traditional baking polymer clay yet?  If not, I'm willing to sacrifice a doll to science to see how it goes. 

[Galactica]

I've baked regular scupty right onto ponies and dolls-  just cook the clay at a low heat and cover up the hair with a foil hat ...   worked fine for me.  (Just be careful and make sure the item cools completely before handling because the vinyl does become somewhat soft - so you don't want to make dents or wonky legs by accident)

[Aeryala]

Try Paperclay - it's not the best for tiny details, but it's super lightweight.

[Diamond]

That is why they make apoxie sculpt and magic sculpt, they are more durable then clay, can be detailed sanded and painted.  If you look at Clonecommanders thread about here WIP you can see the material in action so to speak.

If the clay is not baked fully and fully cured it will break down over time and get crumbly. 

[DGRequiem]

Thanks.  I have extensive experience with apoxie sculpt and apoxie clay (I buy both by the pound-jars), and I've used paperclay and sculpy air too.  All clays have pros/cons, and what I need for this particular project, they won't do.

If you're familiar with sculpy's 'bendy sculpt' clay, that is what I would prefer to use for what I have in mind.  It adheres well, sculpts well, and after it is cured becomes rubbery instead of rigid.  It's what I use for things like tendrils and tails, because it won't fracture or break like apoxie, and it bends with whatever I'm sculpting it over vinyl (like a soft G3 body, or a MH head).  It's also significantly lighter than apoxie, and will not make a doll with head mods more likely to topple off their stands and break. 

Example:
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Devil Pony by RequiemArt.com, on Flickr

The tail, horns, and tongue can all be bent (the tail can even be posed!), when something like that sculpted out of anything else that long and thin would snap with even careful handling.

I'm 90% sure that popping a MH head in the oven to bake will be just fine, BUT getting it on the body requires more squeezing and wiggling than I would like.  So I'd have to bake it with the body.  And the body is what I'm not sure of withstanding 275 degrees.

[Salli]

I didn't even know there was such a thing as bendy sculpt! Thanks for sharing

[Galactica]

Wow-  great pony!  I had never heard of "bendy sculpt" will totally be looking for that now!