Reviews : American-Art-Clay SC3 Sculptamold 3 lb

SC3 Sculptamold 3 lb
American Art Clay Co. SC3 Sculptamold 3 lb
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Builds mountains to hide the mechanisms that run the layout
This molding product is extremely easy to mix and use, and it sticks to darn near everything. I wear nitrile gloves to make clean up faster but the stuff washes up nicely with just water. I had to cover a circuit board that housed the blinker for my road crossing. I don't like to install such below the layout because my N scale trains run under the glass of my coffee table. The deck is 1 Styrofoam that I cut out. The board to be hidden still stuck up 1/2 so I built a low hill to hide the works and provide a location for the Miller Engineering DINER that I plan to build one day. (The power for the DINER is already at the blinker circuit.) I cut a large circle of very thin aluminum flashing that fit around the protruding circuit board and a smaller circle to be the plateau on the top and the roof over the circuits. I molded some rocks in a Scenic mold and glued them around the larger circle to form the cavity. The smaller circle fit on top of this wall of rocks to enclose the cavity. Another batch of thicker Sculptamold was then hand applied to blend the perimeter rocks together and to bond the two aluminum disks to the structure. When the Sculptamold sets up, I'll sand it to shape to represent a road up the hill to the diner's parking lot. Finally, I'll paint and flock the mountain to match the layout. The mountain lifts off to provide access to the circuit board and the wiring to the diner. An easy way to hide the behind the scenes magic and provide a new building site. I'll include a picture of the work in process.
Good Ole' Sculptamold a Modeling essential
A great product for forming terrain of all kinds not just for model railroads. Its very light weight. You can mix it as thick or thin as you like and when used thick it quickly builds up mountains ect. One way to not use do much for mountains is to first rough out your mountains with clumps of foam glued together then cover that with Sculptamold. Mixed very thin I use it as a smoothing layer over structures that I created using window screen and or strips of plaster. It is easy to poke a hole in when dry to insert a tree trunk. It does take a while to dry though depending on how much water you used.
Very good product and easy to work with
I built my train layout years ago using cardboard strips and plaster. That was time consuming and very messy.Then we move to another house and I had to rebuild many parts of my layout. This time I used sculptamold and that made it very easy. I also added latex paint, either brown or green. This material can be spread right on the layout very thick, or over styrofoam if want mountains. I use spatulas to spread this material and it can be easily shaped, leveled, etc. I estimate I have used about 15 lbs of this material so far.
GREAT PRODUCT
After trying another product which did not adhere to wood or styrofoam, I tried this on my layout. I LOVE IT!!! It mixes extremely easily. The mixing ratio is VERY forgiving. The instructions say mix 1:1 water : Sculptamold for filling molds and mix 1:2 for free forming or covering plaster cloth. It is super easy to work with and shape. It does harden fairly quickly. It cleans up amazingly well with just water. For thicker areas, it does take a few days to dry completely. A heat lamp speeds the process.
Awesome diorama medium
Scuptamold is an awesome product. I use this on my dioramas to create almost anything. It's very easy to use, easy to mix, easy clean-up, and easy to get good results. I mainly use it to skim coat the foam base of my diorama. It makes great roads and rock textures. There isn't anything I have found with this stuff thats a con. Sometimes it takes a day or two to dry if it's a thick area, but that's quick considering other mediums that can take a week or more. Try some if you haven't yet, you'll love it.
Awesome Product
I just got mine yesterday and tried it out. In the past I have had a hard time making decent strata rocks. But with this stuff it is so easy using a fork. It looks so natural and so easy to use.
Sculptamold
This product is excellent for creating scenery for model railroads. Have used it for years and it has never let me down.
Awesome
Awesome. Works so well when sculpting rocks or mountains. Very easy to work with dries well too. Love it!!
Excellent Product
I use this to help create hills on my wargame terrain. It works wonderful. It does take a while to dry.
Great stuff
Very easy to work with, dries nicely for doing ground work on dioramas!
Sculptamond
Bags are a little smaller than expected but great product
excellant product
product makes realistic rock walls and rock mounds