Monster Clay Premium Grade Modeling Clay (4.5lb)

love this clay/wax! its more like a combo between a aculpting wax and a firm clay. It holds details really nice and I really love how firm is is and how its nice and hard until you work some in your hands. A fellow sculptor had bought some and sent me a small peice to see if I liked it as I can't afford to be buying clays I can't use and I just wasn't sure I'd like this. So she sent the little sample and I just fell in love with how it works in your hands and I ordered this right away! I also found the price here to be the lowest I could find online and I did search for the lowest price.I had thought that like other types of cly or wax clay which is what this feels like I'd need to heat my tools to sculpt the fine details but you don't need to! I do use a solvent though ( goo gone) as a smoothing agent after I have smoothed with my fingers whch only takes a very light touch.. its not quite like a clay like plastalina at all so if thats what your looking for this is a lot different. And I also use the agent to dip the tip of my tool into to make it glide across the clay better to make sculpting hair or making a smoother area eaiser to sculpt. I also like how you can just melt it down over and over again or heat it up to get it really loose and soft. You can also microwave it ( follow directions if you do!) or put it under a heat lamp which is what I do. I have a small halogen bendy arm desk lamp I use just for heating sculpting waxes and I used it for this too. If I put it really close for very long it will melt it to a liquid which you don't want or hold it a bit farther away it keeps it perfect! Just warm and easy to pull off a small clump to sculpt with and stays nice and malleable and warm. If you do small work you will love this suff because it holds tiny detail and you don't necessarily need an armature. If its really thin like legs you can put it in the feezer to firm it up so it holds its weight. As long as the (legs) don't get too warm again they will hold up the weight of the sculpt if its not too large ( lets say a dog or horse) perfect for micro sized sculpts too!

I do ceramics, so this was exciting to try, very different for sure. It has taught me some bad habits, such as not caring about air bubbles or thickness in the sculpture, it doesn't matter. Getting the large clumps ready to place were a bit messy like chocolate but came right off hands, mounted it all quickly into place. It hardens up fairly quickly, which made me nervous at first. I would use a heat gun to heat up, then work it with a ball of clay in one hand the whole time keeping it hot. But that wasn't the best way. Started using a heating pad, and that was the perfect way to heat it up evenly, placing the heating pad on top for 5 min or so and it was ready to sculpt. Best thing about it is it doesn't loose moisture ever, and it gets super hard when not sculpting so I wasn't worried about the cat jumping on it, or it breaking brittle like dry clay. Stuff is just AMAZING.

I'm an amateur with clay modelling but this product feels really user-friendly and I've gotten multiple reheats out of it without any noticeable change in quality! Highly recommend!

I don't believe I've ever used oil-based clay before (and haven't used other brands to compare), but by comparison to air dry clay it makes sculpting much easier. Recently I've been making a large mask and ears to eventually cast and form the design with latex. Originally I used an air dry clay (very cheap for the amount you get), but despite all the recommendations to use oil based, I learned the hard way that it's just much more difficult to not use this type of clay. Air dry, while cheap, tends to crack far too much despite being smoothed out and rehydrated constantly before being sprayed with a clearcoat.This modeling clay though maintains its flexibility and durability very well, allowing it to remain sculptable after remaining out of a container several days or inside a plaster mold. No cracking noticeable, the only downside is it is slightly more difficult to smooth out. (This could just be inexperience on my part though.) As for reusability, it can likely just be melted down again and reused, but I've yet to find out how it performs in this regard.Overall though, it's a great item for sculpting and mask making. If necessary, I would definitely order more for future projects.

incredible stuff. I use med. Grade for bases for casting resin blank masks. Depending on how much you heat it up, the more pliable it becomes. I'll throw the whole tub in the microwave for 4 or 5 mins, and it softens right up like taffy, oil based clay, so it doesn't stick to your hands or dry them out, and doesn't leave your hands feeling overworked. Lighter fluid is a great smoother for this as well, to eliminate unwanted fingerprints, scratches, or bubbles that happen during sculpting - weather you're a pro or just starting out, i HIGHLY recommend this product, VERY user friendly, forgiving, and reusable, over and over again!