Making The Perfect Armature
Make sure you've read the 'Before you Begin' section.
Sculpting With Foil and Hot Glue
Heavy duty crushed tinfoil (aluminium foil) is THE PERFECT armature material to use as a base for your Pal Tiya Premium sculpture.
Crushed dense tinfoil provides the perfect grip for Pal Tiya Premium. Our sculpting medium has no tensile strength of its own until it begins to cure, so the grip that tinfoil provides is excellent.
Tinfoil sculptures are not only simple to make, they're truly fun too. They can also be unbelievably sophisticated!
As soon as you start ripping tinfoil, you are sculpting!
We make ours into large fluffy (what we call popcorn balls) and long twisted cigar shapes, and with these two shapes you can create almost any shape of armature you like. We do this by using a hot glue gun and form our shapes.
Crushed dense tinfoil provides the perfect grip for Pal Tiya Premium. Our sculpting medium has no tensile strength of its own until it begins to cure, so the grip that tinfoil provides is excellent.
Tinfoil sculptures are not only simple to make, they're truly fun too. They can also be unbelievably sophisticated!
As soon as you start ripping tinfoil, you are sculpting!
We make ours into large fluffy (what we call popcorn balls) and long twisted cigar shapes, and with these two shapes you can create almost any shape of armature you like. We do this by using a hot glue gun and form our shapes.
Aluminium foil is an optimal sculpting material. Using hot glue, assemble fluffy balls together. When just the surface is compressed, it is strong enough to apply a thin coat of Pal Tiya Premium. PTP will hold on vertical and upside down surfaces, because the foil is so textured.