I've been doing blanks more than anything lately. Doing is a relative term; I haven't done shit in about a week. I ordered some magic sculpt and I've been waiting for it to get here before doing anything. What *IS* magic sculpt?
http://www.magicsculp.com/
I can't find my own words for this stuff, I'm at a loss for words. AWESOME begins to describe what I think about it, but way beyond that. It's forcing me to rethink the sculpting process. It's a two part epoxy clay that sets in about 2-3 hours. When you first mix it, it's a bit difficult to work. Has the consistency of marshmallow cream, but as it sets, it gets stiffer.
The odd thing is that it's supposedly safe to use with bare hands. The instructions advise to wash your hands before and after handling. It also has a slightly unpleasant smell. Sort of like bad BO.
Bernie bought a vinyl toy blank. I used the top part, which was round, and about the size of a baseball. I started a Cthulhu-esque octopus with sculpey, making the tentacles, oversized beak, and eyes. I used the magic sculpt to create horns, which are becoming wings, and to cover the ball in its skin.
I have two other semi-finished vinyl blanks. Semi-finished in that I've created the face, but I still don't know what to do with the bodies. One is supposed to be wearing a mask. The other is a kitsune wearing kabuki makeup.
Pictures to follow.

I decided to do another vinyl toy blank. This one started life as a small kitty blank. I was trying to keep it as a cat, but a demented cat. The grin was too dragon-esque, the ears became horns and before I knew it, the head had morphed into a Quetzacoatl Temple Lion....

I decided my MUNNY was a bit too expensive for my first attempt at DIY vinyl toys. I looked around and found these:
http://www.colorblanks.com/toys/
Color blanks. DIY viny toys, but at very cheap price. I also found another DIY vinyl toys by brand Doodle Buds. I bought a bunch of the color blanks and doodle budz at various sizes. All combined they cost about as much as my one Munny!
I wanted to experiment, see if I could bake sculpy on these guys without melting them. I found some instructions at instructables.com that mentioned you could cure the sculpy at 200, so I tried that. The sculpy didn't quite set at 200, so I turned up the oven to 225. This is only 50 degrees cooler than what sculpy should set at. However, the vinyl toy was VERY wobbly, on the verge of melting. But it was successful! I was able to add some sculpy pieces. I decided to set the detail sculpy with my hot air gun. This combination gave pretty good results.
I really wanted to take a picture of the before subject and take some pictures as it came together. I painted up my test subject and put the finishing touches before I could take pictures. It came together THAT quickly. I created a small top hat and scythe for it. I took pictures before I put the final clear coat, but you get the idea.
So what have I found? You CAN use sculpy on vinyl, but you have to be really careful.

I've posted both finished dragons on my etsy shop. Speaking of which, I decided to combine both etsy shops into one.

yay.

Go to my etshy shop now. Look at my finished product. Marvel at the genius of love that is me. Buy shitloads of stuff from my shop.

I'm taking this blog too much to heart. Last Thursday was my day off. I was looking for this place called red hot robot:

http://www.redhotrobot.net/

My youngest is going through potty training and I promised him a robot if he had two days with no accidents. Was looking for red hot robot, got lost. Finally located it, but along the way I picked up a copper pipe and some fittings. I made two blowguns for my older boys. I picked up the robot for the youngest, but I also picked up a munny for myself:

http://www.kidrobot.com/Toys/DoItYourselfToys/MUNNYWORLDminiMUNNY4InchWhiteEdition.html

I plan to modify the life out of this little guy and make something fun.

My son LOVED the robot I got. It's an old old school wind up tin toy. He sleeps with it and he's about as careful as a 3 year old can be with such a thing, but it's only a matter of time before he breaks it.

Hey I found pictures of the snake dragon in progress, so I'll be posting them:
There's a couple of body shots from different vistas to get an idea of what I was trying.
There's also a couple of close up shots of the claws so you can see the wire armature and clay claws.
Though you can see the FEEL of the finished product, the pre-built up aluminium section looks different. Sort of like seeing it's skeleton.