{"id":13264,"date":"2024-03-18T22:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13264"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:28:34","slug":"arts-crafts-plasticene-napoleonic-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13264","title":{"rendered":"ARTS & CRAFTS: Plasticene Napoleonic Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Out of the box\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I first tried my hand a clay figures as a kid. Donkeys years ago. Including an attempt at a stop frame animation (an orc cleaving a boulder in twain!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently there\u2019s been my claymation Curtis. I made that two or three years ago. Going back a bit further, but not as far back as childhood – maybe around ten years? – I made this Napoleonic Frenchman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New bits: backpack and greatcoat roll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I found this in a box, with some plasticene in it. The figure had fallen to bits. This tends to happens where blocks of plasticene meet. It\u2019s a fault one waiting to part. So first think was to reassemble him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I finished two incomplete parts: his rucksack and greatcoat roll. And added them to the figure. Sadly he\u2019ll most likely fall to bits again. But I\u2019d like to finish him, and maybe animate him a bit. Perhaps not as a stop-motion film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More likely I\u2019ll just clean him up – the colours tend to transfer, annoyingly (the blue here is esp\u2019 irksome that way) – pose him a bit, and then dispatch him to Valhalla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d like to find a way to make figures that won\u2019t degrade. Perhaps from some kind of rubber, over a workable armature? These primitive plasticene hobbies don\u2019t seem to have a durable shelf life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first tried my hand a clay figures as a kid. Donkeys years ago. Including an attempt at a stop frame animation (an orc cleaving a boulder in twain!). More recently there\u2019s been my claymation Curtis. I made that two or three years ago. Going back a bit further, but not as far back as … <\/p>\n

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