plasticine

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Or tin-foil may be used, as in making positives; but, instead of floating on water, press plasticine on the foil while it is still on the object For curved surfaces, as cylinders, any of these methods can be used; the plasticine is the more successful In all casting of plaster on a small scale, use a soft camel-hair brush.

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  1. a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools)

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  • My chest was wide open, literally: there was a dark split that ran from my navel to my neck, and a huge, misshapen hand, plasticine-grey, was pulling back into the crack. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • To revitalize the stale sci-fi franchise, director J.J. Abrams has compiled a cast with the kind of plasticine perfection that emmotes volumes in a galaxy overrun with Klingons, Romulans and other pesky intergalactic scum. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Telltale have nailed the look of Wallace and Gromit's world, from the quaint British locations, to the impressive character models that look like they were lifted out of the claymation films - they even have fingerprints and various imperfections visible in their plasticine texture. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Evan Melnyk was in fashion graphics but getting more into print is currently obsessed with stop-motion, animation, using plasticine, cardboard etc Vince Collins made the original animations back in 1974 to 1982 and they have been to Jon Hopkins 'music. —  Heavy Backpack - A Creative Catalogue
  • That's because Chris Brown has been charged with a felony in connection with a domestic violence incident, and the only people that we'd imagine Chris Brown can be domestically violent to are Rihanna, his Hispanic cleaning maid - which is unlikely since, as a properly-developed human being, she's about eight times bigger than him - or a rudimentary plasticine model of himself that he made and keeps as a shrine to his preposterous ego. —  Hecklerspray
 

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