File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2003/puptcrit.0312, message 44


From: Stephen Kaplin <skactw-AT-tiac.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Lightweight positive base forms
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:18:12 -0500



>With Celastic out of the picture, it's wonderful qualities sadly missed and
>its nasty properties a memory, I would like to suggest that you consider
>VARA-FORM as a possibility for your mask bases.  It is a light weight,
>nontoxic,
>thermal reactive product which is easy to use and extremely versatile. It
>comes
>in several open weaves and solid sheet forms of varying thickness.  It can be
>covered with most any other material and can be made to accommodate
>mechanical
>and decorative attachments. It can be worked with a heat gun or hot water and
>holds detail.
>

>Fred Thompson
>
I have used thermo plastics on various occasions. It takes some real effort
to capture detail with them. When it's soft, it's extremely elastic so it
always trying to pull out of crevices and creep back into it's native
shape. So have your heat gun in one hand, your metal sculpting tools in the
other, and a plant mister filled with cold water in your third hand (What?
you don't have a third hand, yet you call yourself a puppeteer?) It takes
some practice to get up to speed.
 While in the short run they are marvelously strong, light and springy,
over time (I mean a decade or so) they get brittle and start to crumble.
Some of my earliest thermo-efforts have already bit the dust. Anyone else
find this to be a problem?

Stephen




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