tonsofhoopla
Member
Okay, so i've been scanning the molded armor topics and found that a lot of people are having a hard time smoothing out their clay to a nearly perfectly flat surface, so for about a week i've been experimenting with sand papers and such and found that this works ultra good.
So in figuring out that using sand paper doesn't work to well i thought of using bondo's plastic spreaders when that sparked an idea,
why not just use paper, so i put some plain computer paper on a sanding block and tried it out on my helmet to be molded on the areas where i touched up the pepakura with the oil based clay, and to my amazement it worked suprisingly well.
I tried it just running it over with the paper in my hand and it worked great, so before you blow $30 on smoothing tools for clay give my method a try, it worked well for me but i don't know how it fairs against all hardnesses of clay, but i think it'll be fine. Hope this helps some people. Take Care!
-Justin
So in figuring out that using sand paper doesn't work to well i thought of using bondo's plastic spreaders when that sparked an idea,
why not just use paper, so i put some plain computer paper on a sanding block and tried it out on my helmet to be molded on the areas where i touched up the pepakura with the oil based clay, and to my amazement it worked suprisingly well.
I tried it just running it over with the paper in my hand and it worked great, so before you blow $30 on smoothing tools for clay give my method a try, it worked well for me but i don't know how it fairs against all hardnesses of clay, but i think it'll be fine. Hope this helps some people. Take Care!
-Justin