From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-magma.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:08:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] More clay smoothing tips


You aren't the only one who doesn't like the smell of Skin-so-soft. It
is also recognized as an excellent insect repellent, and it smells a
hell of a lot better than DEET.
Greg
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H Greg. I'm thankfull I'm not very susceptible, cause it took me a while to 
realise it might have been a way to aompare me to a mosquito...
LoL
Skin-So-Soft does not seem to work as an insect repellant for everybody. 
Must be body chemistry differences. I would know about that. Once in my 
life, and only once, I smelled a perfume that actually did not make me 
choke, and even more startling, it actually acted like a pefume is supposed 
to, according to myth, to seduce someone! The startling thing is that the 
girl was nowhere near attractive according to my tastes at the time...
Thankfully, she left my bedroom relatively quickly, or otherwise I might 
have said something ridiculously cheesy.If you're wondering what a stranger 
girl was doing in my bedroom, those were the college days, with roommates, 
and she was a visitor, and my room was like an attraction to see for first 
time visitors (first exhibit: the weird art guy).

so... perfumes are nasty stuff, especially when they work like they were 
supposed to.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Ballora" <gregballora-AT-sbcglobal.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] More clay smoothing tips


> You aren't the only one who doesn't like the smell of Skin-so-soft. It
> is also recognized as an excellent insect repellent, and it smells a
> hell of a lot better than DEET.
> On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Mathieu René wrote:
>
>> my collegue, also new to working with plastalina (oil-based clay) gave
>> me an even better ttrick than any I have tried yet, for smoothimng
>> Chavant NSP.
>>
>> Someone in the special effects field told him that for Chavant, the
>> usual /smoothing agents are:
>> lighter fluid, turpentine, Goof-Off, water, and believe it or not,
>> Skin-so-Soft.
>>
>> Yes folks, that stinky body oil sold exclusively by Avon.
>> I had my doubts, until he showed me, and then I tried. Yikes. It's
>> almost like an instant mirror shine.
>> Directly from the raking stage, using a finger and a dab of
>> skin-so-soft for rubbing, the sculpt is flawlessly smooth in seconds.
>> I would have immediately ordered some, but the smell is very strong
>> for me, it grabs at my throat quickly, and I need to cough. Darn
>> useless perfumes!  So I studied the feeling of this oil, trying to
>> find a similarily textures oil in my memory banks. Johnson's Baby Oil!
>>  So I went and got some, and tried it. It's much better than heavy
>> mineral oil (which is still good, but requires patience), but it's
>> nowhere as fast acting as the skin-so-soft.
>>
>> Does anybody here have connections in the Animation Film or
>> maquette-making industries?
>> Could you get more smoothing tips from the oil-based clay pros?
>> I really don't want to smooth a sculpt with lighter fluid using my
>> fingers, and the fumes are not nice either for any of the other
>> options mentionned before in this post.
>>
>> Different oil-based clays have different reactions to different
>> solvents. Like Roma plastalina can be smoothed with alcohol, while
>> Chavant NSP produces a dust film that needs to be cleaned.
>>
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