I bought these just before the pandemic to model ‘Plasticine’ Wallace and Gromit-style puppets for an animation project that never got the go-ahead. Shame, as I’d asked Karen Chalmers if she could do the music, as she did with my Rhubarb Festival animation, and she’d already come up with a few suggestions of how we might do it.
It might be time to give it a try although sculptor Wilfrid Wood recently posted a photograph on Instagram showing the effect of a heatwave on Plasticine: his carefully carved head-and-shoulders portrait had been transformed into something that resembled one of The Abominable Dr. Phibes’ waxworks. A shame that Vincent Price isn’t still around to play Wilfrid if there’s ever a bio-pic.
I’ve gone for Newplast for my modelling material.
I’m sure I’ll work out what all those wooden knives, scrapers, probes and spatulas are supposed to do.