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Hi guys just wondering is there a big difference between storing gs in the fridge and freezer?
im worried, that if i store it in the freezer it might go to hard and Ill have to wait for it to defrost? dunno halp plox.

I have had mine for several years and while it has grown stale slowly I would just leave it a air tight sealable container to prevent potential contamination with your food (important that one). I did not feel any need to freeze the stuff.

Wait, are you supposed to store it in the fridge? I just left it in the container it came in.

The hardening process of GS is a heat based reaction. So if GS is exposed to heat theoretically it will deteriorate. But this will probably happen over the period of years.
I haven't seen a difference in my GS that was on my desk for months. So you only have to worry about this if you plan on stopping your hobby for some years.

And cold GS isn't as malleable as warm one. So if you store it in the freezer you'd have to warm it up a little. But just holding it in your hands or warm water should probably enough. But as i never put it in the freezer this is just an asumption...

I havent found the need to refrigerate my gs, it tends to last ages just on the desk in all temperatures.

The gw stuff with both blue and green on a single strip is crap though, get something that has the blue and green in separate wrappings if you dont already have this.

Refrigeration/freezing will slow the curing process (an endothermic reaction, which is why curing "ovens" work), but separate parts don't cure on their own. Unless you mix way too much and need to come back to it tomorrow, in which case chilling is necessary, the constituent parts will last for years (mine is going strong after roughly four years) simply left separately in a pair of resealable plastic bags. Even the bags are more important for their ability to keep dust off the material (and the material off of everything else - the yellow half, especially, is quite sticky) than keeping it away from fresh air.

I wouldn't, as mentioned there isn't much net gain. The issue with GS is that it's freaking hard to work with when it's cold, so you'll be wasting time warming it up to use it. I don't even keep mine in an air tight container, I cover it with plastic wrap to keep it from sticking to other things in my toolbox.

My painting table is in the garage... and it gets to like 40degrees 110degrees or such for americans. And I left it there over summer and it went really hard and sticky.. liike a rock :O

I live in Florida so the A/C is always on but Ive left it sitting on a table since Ive had it and had no problems. I didnt know about storing it in a freezer or anything.

Rotgut wrote:
I live in Florida so the A/C is always on but Ive left it sitting on a table since Ive had it and had no problems. I didnt know about storing it in a freezer or anything.

I said fridge dunno.. i got a fresh batch of green stuff today. And the difference was transcendence. Was so much easier to work with it. So I'm just ganna keep it in the fridge I guess.

Put it in the freezer.
When you need some just use some clippers to take off the amount you need.
It'll defrost in your hands pretty quickly.

I keep my side by side GW style green stuff in the freezer and it's lasted for several years. I bought it in 2004 or 5 when I first tried scuplting. I mostly use milliput and procreate now since I can aquire it easier but I cut off a little gs every now and again when I run out of the others.

Aside from the little area where the two colors touch it still works well.

 oadie wrote:
Refrigeration/freezing will slow the curing process (an endothermic reaction

Actually, curing resins are typically exothermic reactions, they release heat while curing. At least the resins I've worked with (mostly epoxy and polyester). It just occurs faster when it is warm and may require a certain temperature to start reacting at any significant rate, but it does actually release heat, not take it in like an endothermic reaction. One common newbie mistake in composites with laminating resin is to mix a big batch of it in a single container and then it starts to cure, so releases heat, which makes it cure faster, which releases more heat. Before you know it it's cured before you could get it on to the work piece while in the meantime melted through your container and on to your table in a steaming pile of toxic fumes. But if you separate it out in to smaller containers, the heat dissipates faster so it slows the curing.