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I tried foam clay for the first time yesterday.
I am quite a novice in the art of clay, and till now I have only been practicing with monster clay: a wax based clay which never dries.
Since India is always hot, the wax always remains soft and nice to mold. Even if it does freezes on any cold day, some body heat is enough to turn it moldable.
Anyways, foam clay.
As the name suggests: it's a clay with a foam like texture. It dries into complete foam.
Advantages:
1. Air dry
2. Very silky and soft when wet. It was even possible to make fibres just by streching it. It is very easy to make fine details.
3. The foam like texture is great for producing something organic. Even when dry it retains some amount of softness and flexibility, like a foam. I would heavily recommend foam clay for cosplay purposes or any prop making.
4. Great cohesion and less adhesive. The clay barely sticks to your hand so it's great to work with. It does however basically welds to itself at the slightest touch, so you don't have to press the fragile fine details to ensure they stick.
5. It is mega cheap.
Disadvantages:
1. It dries very quickly within a day. So you have to complete your project fairly fast
2. It lacks any structural strength. If you make anything more than a centimetre tall in height, expect it to get crushed under it's own weight.
3. It is super light, basically just paper. That can be an advantage but I am grumpy how I woke up this morning to learn the clay I left out for drying was basically blown all over my room because of my fan.
So that's it. It doesn't seem to have any practicality over cosclay. If you just want to make small details though, foam clay is great for it's extremely cheap price.
I am quite a novice in the art of clay, and till now I have only been practicing with monster clay: a wax based clay which never dries.
Since India is always hot, the wax always remains soft and nice to mold. Even if it does freezes on any cold day, some body heat is enough to turn it moldable.
Anyways, foam clay.
As the name suggests: it's a clay with a foam like texture. It dries into complete foam.
Advantages:
1. Air dry
2. Very silky and soft when wet. It was even possible to make fibres just by streching it. It is very easy to make fine details.
3. The foam like texture is great for producing something organic. Even when dry it retains some amount of softness and flexibility, like a foam. I would heavily recommend foam clay for cosplay purposes or any prop making.
4. Great cohesion and less adhesive. The clay barely sticks to your hand so it's great to work with. It does however basically welds to itself at the slightest touch, so you don't have to press the fragile fine details to ensure they stick.
5. It is mega cheap.
Disadvantages:
1. It dries very quickly within a day. So you have to complete your project fairly fast
2. It lacks any structural strength. If you make anything more than a centimetre tall in height, expect it to get crushed under it's own weight.
3. It is super light, basically just paper. That can be an advantage but I am grumpy how I woke up this morning to learn the clay I left out for drying was basically blown all over my room because of my fan.
So that's it. It doesn't seem to have any practicality over cosclay. If you just want to make small details though, foam clay is great for it's extremely cheap price.
