Talk:Plasticine

Ingedients

Does anyone know what the ingredients in plasticine are? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CharlesC (talk • contribs) 14:39, 3 March 2005

I believe it's fundamentally dry clay and something oily and/or waxy to bind it instead of water. It seems to have been one of those things where the inventor (Harbutt) passed the original recipe on to his family and it's not public knowledge, but several websites say if you try to bake it you'll end up with a fire, which implies a hydrocarbon as the binding agent. --Andrew Norman 07:56, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~goodwine/playdough.htm

Not sure if this is it, but give it a shot:

* 2 1/2 cups flour

* 1 cup salt

* 1/4 cup vegetable oil

* 1 cup water

* food colouring

Mix dry ingredients. Add oil and stir. Add water a little at a time. Stir until it holds together well. Knewad for 5 to 10 minutes. Divide dough into several pieces. Add food colouring a little at a time. Knead until each colour is evenly worked. Store in airtight containers.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ildfrozt (talk • contribs) 14:09, 28 September 2005

That is for Play-dough, which can easily dry out. Plasticine does not dry out. -- Pinktulip 09:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

It is not based on clay; clay is essentially silicate based. Plasticine is based on calcium carbonate, which is mixed with the material known as "slackwax" (this is the soft oily wax that is extracted when lube oils are dewaxed). The addition of stearic acid prevents the mixture from becoming too "sticky" when handled. The characteristic smell of plasticine is actually a material called Irganox L130 which is added as an antioxidant. The main ingredients of plasticine (the calcium carbonate, slackwax and stearic acid) have no strong odour. One other error in the article: plasticine doesn't "melt". It may soften, but "melt" implies a change of state, and as plasticine is a blend of materials including a non-melting filler, then "melting" does not apply. StanPomeray (talk) 07:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Can you provide some reference for that which could be used in the article? Materialscientist (talk) 07:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately not! I spent about 15 years in R&D as a formulation chemist/materials scientist and what I have stated above is the result of various discussions over the years with raw material suppliers and other people in the industry. I wouldn't be able to reference it to anything in writing - apart from anything else, I doubt you'd get Ciba (or BASF as they are now) to produce a product data sheet that says "Irganox L130 smells like Plasticine" LOL StanPomeray (talk) 07:34, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Picture

A picture of plasticine is needed.--Patchouli 00:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Many experiments have been attempted to create homemade recipe. Here is a successful attempt. Knowledgeable3000 (talk) 05:42, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Drying Plasticine

If Plasticine is flammable, due to its oil/petrolium jelly base, and it doesnt dry out, how do you cure/solidify the model you make? Is there a special chemical you spray or something? Is it even posible to do this? Any info would be great. Cort 68.57.202.60 05:27, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Well Plasticine becomes soft, malleable and workable when warmed in your hand and goes hard when cooled but when warmed again it becomes soft. John 89.145.245.86 (talk) 08:29, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

You don't cure/solidify it. It's meant to be re-useable 86.145.131.125 (talk) 20:09, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Peistocene

oh, come on. Who can get confused about plasticine and peistocene? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.235.226.196 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 16 February 2007

The question is who wouldn't confuse pleistocene and plasticine?! That's one of my all-time favourite confusions, don't knock it! Or, if you are going to knock it, at least spell pleistocene correctly. Thanks. --Oolong (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Panorama

native resolution:9768x2416 image of a Plasticine art installation.. Suggestions or matters of relevance, please. --Devinly (talk) 03:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

External links

Can someone please find some better external links than the existing two? I understand this may be difficult but really, those links are appalling. One leads to a visual display hosted by the Museum of Bath on which the videos are disabled, meaning there is no information available, and the other appears to lead to forum thread that is barely legible. I will try and find some links when I have time, but until then could someone else please have a go? Faerie Queene (talk) 21:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk

swimming ear plugs look like this and windows office does not have this word in its dictionary - I wonder why? is it not a English word? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgkprog (talk • contribs) 19:51, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

basic modelling strategies

Though Plasticine may be formed into an infinite variety of shapes, this may be done using just a few simple basic procedures, such as the following:

1) Tubes, rolled, using a flat surface, such as a melamine cheese board, for example.

2) Flat sheets, rolled with a rolling pin or a thick rod. These may be cut into flat shapes with a preferably blunted, pointed kitchen knife

3) Balls, rolled between the palms of the hands in a contrary orbital motion.

4) Freestyle modelling, using the fingers or appropriate tools.

These 4 modes may be combined to fully realise the astonishing range of forms available to the Plasticine sculptor.

In addition, the original Harbutt's factory provided a miniature brick-forming mould which consisted of a small hand-held board about 1 cm thick, pierced with several slots measuring about 1cm x 2 cm. This came with a matching push rod of the same dimensions. Plasticine was smeared into the slots, and the perfectly formed bricks were then rapidly and accurately extruded using the pushrod.

The author's grandparents possessed an example of this tool which they used regularly at the start of the last century, much as children would now play with Lego. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.124.214 (talk) 22:24, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

James May's Toy Stories

James May's Toy Stories on BBC2, aired 11 July 2010, featured Plasticine, designing a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show, with remarkably good results.78.20.145.31 (talk) 19:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, I tried

But stupidity triumphed again. I tried to remove that poor quality example of a figure made of Plasticine, but repeatedly the page was vandalized by people putting it back in. Instead of that piece of crap there should be an example of professional work, like out of Wallace and Gromit or any other professional stop-motion animation using Plasticine. A bunch of nerds kept blindly reverting my edit and unjustifiably calling it vandalism, though, so I guess that's that. It's too bad the idea Wikipedia is based on is total bullshit, though. It's a bit depressing actually. You're supposed to be able to make an edit, justify it as I did, and at least have a discussion take place before the change is reverted. No wonder non-nerds like me don't want to bother even changing a typo. If I did that, no doubt someone like Reaper Eternal would revert it within seconds and call it vandalism. 174.91.1.138 (talk) 18:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)