A swing and a miss

So that didn’t work out so well. I didn’t have a baking sheet large enough for the lava (that I was also willing to forgo using for food) so I had to go Huck Finn style in aluminum. Not sure if it was the moving, the age of the clay, the translucency, etc etc, but all 8 edges bowed. Thankfully she went convex, so reparable, but less than fun. I managed to stay patient and didn’t overcut or run crooked, but it took about two hours to finesse her back onto the box without scraping the paint off the facings or deforming the foam.

I’m not crazy about the way she held texture either. I stippled the top with a wire brush for almost half an hour – usually that would result in some serious pitting, but its like she swelled as she baked. She also has some textural artifacts I’m not crazy about and the diffusion is suboptimal.

It’s possible its the Premo Transluscent. I could order Fimo instead, but I still have two bricks left. At the moment I’m hoping my ancient ass clay was under-conditioned because I ran it by hand. Even if the translucency does lend some wonkiness, ten minutes with the pasta roller should smooth out the worst of it.

I still need to dry-brush and add crackle, but CJ’s happy with it, so I probably won’t consider re-basing until I see how the canals go now that I’m re-equipped. It’s really not that big a deal in this context, but I’d still like to get it sorted before I try it on something else.

About hour with the airbrush and I really wish the stippling had come through better. Though the green light test suggests that an Elder conversion wouldn’t be that difficult, especially with interchangeable magnetized minis.