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Sculpey UltraLight Mixing With Other Types Of Polymer Clay And The Water Test "New Sculpey UltraLight clay is soft and light yet bakes hard in your oven. Great for paper crafts, ornaments, armatures and even floats! It can be colored by mixing it with Sculpey III, Premo or any other brands of polymer clay." For years I've been making aquatic toys and experimenting the use of polymer clay in water, examples, Snow Globes, Aquafloats, Marine creatures and many others. My earlier experiments uses styrofoam, sponge, cork, straw, wood,and anything that makes the polymer clay floats. As some of the polymer clay are porous, it absorbed water and my flotation started to sink after a few days. Its a great jubilation, Sculpey UltraLight will FLOATS, below are my experiment and test, mixing UltraLight with other brands of polymer clay.
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Sculpey UltraLight mixing it with other clay test
Unbake UltraLight polymer clay shape into a ball and a flat piece of
clay disc
Testing the unbake UltraLight clay shapes in the water and floats
Unbake UltraLight, Bake & Bend polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing
with 50% UltraLight and 50% B&B to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Bake & Bend clay shapes in the water and he clays
sank to the bottom
Unbake UltraLight, Sculpey III polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing with
50% UltraLight and 50% SculpeyIII to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Sculpey III clay shapes in the water and floats
Unbake UltraLight, Premo polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing with
50% UltraLight and 50% Premo to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Premo clay shapes in the water and the clays sank to
the bottom
Unbake UltraLight, Fimo Soft polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing with
50% UltraLight and 50% FS to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Fimo Soft clay shapes in the water and floats
Unbake UltraLight, Fimo Classic polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing
with 50% UltraLight and 50% FC to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Fimo Classicclay shapes in the water and he clays
sank to the bottom
Unbake UltraLight, Cernit polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing with
50% UltraLight and 50% Cernit to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Cernit clay shapes in the water and the clays sank to
the bottom
Unbake UltraLight, Dukit polymer clay shaped into balls, mixing with
50% UltraLight and 50% Dukit to form ball and flat clay disc for the test
Testing the unbake Dukit clay shapes in the water and floats
Baked clays at 130º C for 25 minutes
First test Sculpey UltraLight and floats
Test two, Sculpey UltraLight, Sculpey III, Premo, Bake & Bend and floats
Test three, Sculpey UltraLight, both shapes for Fimo Soft floats but.
the ball shape for Fimo Classic sank to the bottom
Aquatic test create a miniature frog with Fimo Soft mixture and it floats
Test five, all types of polymer clay test and most of them floats with the
exception of the baked Fimo Classic ball mixture it sank immediately
After 10 days, notice that there are 2 types of clay that sank to the bottom,
both Fimo Classic shapes, Bake & Bend Ball. The results is due to density
of the clay, the FC ball sank immediately, then porosity set in for the flat FC
clay disc, about 10 days later it also sank to the bottom. As for the Bake &
Bend clay ball, it sank after 10 days due to porosity, water absorbed into
the clay.
The 20 days test the water in the container evaporates, the rest of the
polymer clays and my froggy still floats, with exception of Fimo Classic
mixtures, Bake & Bend mixtures.
CONCLUSION
In general, most of the clay will floats if you mixed 60 % UltraLight plus 40 % of
any brand of polymer clay. UltraLight is an interesting polymer clay, the softness,
lightweight and white matt surfaces, allows you to draw with permanent marker and
paint with acrylic paints. Mixing with all kind of polymer clay to create shade of colors
and its quality is much better than Original Sculpey Clay. It is a very good polymer
clay medium to expand your creative clay project, print your hand print, perhaps
even to create flying model plane beside any aquatic projects.