Re: Resin vehicles - customizing

In a message dated 9/23/99 12:57:45 PM Central Daylight Time, 
books@mail.state.fl.us writes:

<< 
 What I really need is a better medium than fimo, the stuff is too
 elastic even before baking.  Anyone know what a "real" moldmaker
 uses?
  >>

Are you using FIMO for the mold? Or are you using it to make the master,
from 
which you make the mold?

Try using Milliput to model in. You can make a rough shape  allow it
todry, 
add more and sculpt, fairly flexible. When you the ship model you like,
then 
figure out how to make the mold from it. I should plaster of paris would
make 
a better MOLD than FIMO. AS an aside, try using SCULPY instead of FIMO,
I 
find it easier to work into a smooth consistency. I have to knead FIMO
so 
much and my hands can't take it. The white SCULPY is easier to work with
than 
the colored version, and if it's going to be a master for something, it 
certainly does not have to be colored.