Problems with SuperSculpy

[Deadite]

Hi all, been a while.
Quite some time ago I had the \'brilliant\' idea of adding some loincloths to all of my Space Marines. With my sculpting skill still in it\'s wee infancy (barely up to toddler now), I thought I might need some sort of removable backing between each marines legs to provide support for the sculpt of the loincloth.
Since I had plenty of SuperSculpy clay on hand, I thought I\'d give that a try and jammed quite a bit between the legs.
This, of course, creeped into cracks and crevices of the model.
I was never able to finish the project and have since gone a different direction with my marines.
Now to remove the sculpy....yeah... that didn\'t go well... anyone have any idea how to safely* remove sculpy from a plastic model? ???

*I said \"safely\" because not only will it not come off the mini, but it also seems to be slightly toxic and has softened and warped the plastic quite a bit... removing some finer details and generally turning the piece to a bit of a blob where-ever the sculpy touched. :flame:

 

[QuietiManes]

Doh!

Yeah, sculpey doesnt like plastic too much. You can dilute it but I think everything that dissolves sculpey will dissolve plastic too. Acetone and the like. How were you going to bake the sculpey on a plastic figure? Anyway, your model might be not be salvageable. Whatever reacts with the plastic may or may not be in there forever.

 

[Patrick]

I\'ve sculpted quite a bit with super sculpey and can tell you it cleans off great with 91% rubbing alcohol. The alcohol will not harm the plastic surface at all. You may need to scrub a little, so an old toothbrush should do the trick. You will also notice your primer will stick better to cleaned plastic also.

Happy cleaning.

 

[wyrmlingx]

Sculpey on plastic? The baking process would be interesting.

 

[Deadite]

Perhaps I wasn\'t too clear... the sculpy was not going to be baked. It was simply used as a filler between the marine legs so I could sculpt a greenstuff loincloth onto the marine without worry of the gs collapsing on me when I made folds. Once the gs was cured, the still soft sculpy would have been removed, leaving nothing but the gs loincloth. At least, that was the plan.

sigh...

Thanks for the tip Patrick. I\'ll give that a shot and if that doesn\'t work, it looks like I\'ll just be cutting the bad plastic and resculpting .

 

[QuietiManes]

Ah, hard way to learn something. Too bad you didnt grab the BluTac instead.

Anyway, g\'luck.

 

[petey]

You did make it very clear, but I think a few people (including me at first) just skim read