Ok to boil?

I have boiled sculpey before and was met with limited success.  The good thing about boiling is that there is never a color change in the sculpey, as the oven may cause.  Also good is the fact that boiling causes a consistency in the hardness throughout the piece.  What sucks about boiling is that you can never seem to get sculpey as hard as oven baking.  I recommend that there is no substitute for practice with the oven.  I usually boil a piece first to get it hard enough not to deform it while working with it, but soft enough to still make some easy carving modifications.

If you are making a custom head, I suggest using a junk torso while boiling to prevent distortion.  Just  leave the head on the torso while boiling, because pulling it off may squash the hole.

Just do not microwave sculpey.  I didn't get that  ----ing smell out for a week.

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never tried it. dont know. ~anderson

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how long to you keep it in? and will official lego pieces melt? like a Epi.III clone helmet.

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that's what i'd like to kno. I'm making a zasalamel hood and siegfried hair

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