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I made these trenches out of Sculpey, for about $5.



I posted the tutorial below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2011/09/15mm-trenches-on-budget.html

Very nice. Can you talk about how easy the sculpy is to work with?

And on your tutorial you mention using the ruler as the backing. The rest is just pushing the sculpey toward the ruler to get the 90degree angle and feathering it to the tabletop in the other direction?

Finally, sculpey can be baked in the oven, no danger of toxic anything?

Finally, finally, I assume these could be replicated for 28mm just by scaling up? Or would the amount of sculpey start getting expensive?

Thanks! Oh, btw, I enjoy checking out your blog.

Cruentus wrote:Very nice. Can you talk about how easy the sculpy is to work with?

Very easy. It's a polymer clay so it's softer than GS but harder than say Play-doh.

And on your tutorial you mention using the ruler as the backing. The rest is just pushing the sculpey toward the ruler to get the 90degree angle and feathering it to the tabletop in the other direction?

Yes, essentially...

Finally, sculpey can be baked in the oven, no danger of toxic anything?

IIRC, no. But those of you super-scared by the perceived dangers of plastics (it is a polymer) may disagree. Read the label on the package and decide for yourself.

Finally, finally, I assume these could be replicated for 28mm just by scaling up? Or would the amount of sculpey start getting expensive?

It'd require at least 2x the amount of Sculpey, as well as a longer bake time, increasing the cost but it COULD be done.