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Hey everyone I'm excited today because I'm getting to play with Foam-Mo that's
right, moldable foam clay in a bucket.
Aah! Sorry.
Now the reason I have this is because Skyler Ostler from Cosplay Apprentice
sent it to me in the mail for free...and I love getting things in the mail for free.
Let's open it up and see what we got.
It's definitely well sealed. There we go. Alright. Ooh, ha ha, it's bouncy. That feels really
weird. Wow that is super light. That's wild. I like it, I'm just not sure how to
use it yet. What if we stick it in the mold. Wow that's actually really good. How
much does this stuff shrink when it dries? I'll make a piece a certain size.
I'll make it one inch. Wonder if I could cut it with scissors? Ooh that works
really well cutting it with scissors. Alright I got my 1 inch piece. I'll let
that cure and see what it is when it's cured. I've got this pauldron - this is
like the one I used for the Wonder Woman costume and what I'm gonna see is if I
can attach some edge detailing to that with this and maybe some swirly
bits and stuff but I think what I'm going to start with is getting a nice
even snakey thing.
Actually works pretty good for stuff like that - for like those swirls and
things - so it's more like it's not as much like you tell it what to do is you
kind of just ask it nicely and see if it will oblige you and do what you want.
We're gonna leave this stuff to dry. I've been having lots of fun playing with
this Foam-Mo but now my wife is calling me for dinner so I'll see you tomorrow
and we'll see what that looks like when it's all dry.
Hey. See some of this stuff? Look that's a lady's face
-It works really well -It really does
I'm amazed that it pics up that much detail
Same especially because it feels like it's hard to
get it to do what you want but you can press it into something like this
and that comes out really nice. -Yeah, that's amazing!
And then the cool thing is once it dries, it's flexible
so like if you do something, say like I had done these just flat in a mold then
I can put them on something and bend it around onto it. If it's a
hard clay or something you can't actually then form it onto a curved
surface, right? Like I could have made molds with just those
shapes that are just flat - push them into those molds, let it dry then glue it onto
my pieces, right - so I could have duplicates...
-You mean after it's already dry... -Look here this is dry -...it's still flexible?
It's foam still when it's dry
-Oh I didn't know that! -I know, neither did I
I thought it would be harder. It's really quite flexible, like that'll
flex a good deal. I think it's a winning product for certain things, like if
you got a mold of your hand and then you molded this on to it you could make it
like a glove that you could actually wear the fingers and flex your
hand and have like crazy... oh I'm totally doing that!
I need something that's like a hand... Oh where's my plastic arm hand? I'll use that!
-Oh we do have one! -The one that I cut my arm off with
Severed hand as seen in the video...
I forget which video it was... Oh sword video.
I want it fairly thin. I'm gonna do that and
say I want a big claw. I'm gonna just keep adding
funky details. Alright, I'm really having fun. This is so cool.
I'll let this dry and see how it looks when I try and take it off, and whether it comes
off, and whether I can actually get my finger in there and bend it.
Rahhh!
And I'll just hang it from my mic stand to dry. Alright this is day three. I left and I
came back, and I got a cold while I was away. How sweet is that? So sorry about my
voice it will sound a lot lower than it normally does. Finger! See if I can get it
off of here. I'm pretty excited about this because if it works it'd be really cool.
It better come off. Rrrrr...come off!
Apparently this sticks reasonably okay to stuff. I figured since
this finger was hollow it would just... come out! Please come out. I don't want you to rip.
Okay so that wasn't the best idea in the world. This was so gonna be so awesome.
What if I stick the screwdriver up there to coax it? Oh there we go
that's sounding good. Should have done this at the beginning.
I'm gonna destroy this.
I don't want it to rip, I want it to be perfect and awesome and then amaze
everyone with how amazing it is! So here's something, when you're making
stuff often you mess it up a lot of times before you get it to work the way
you want it to, and this is one of those things I think.
Aw you stinker!
(hopefully) oh oh oh...
Here we go, here we go! There we go. Okay (singing) dun dun da!
I've got a finger! I think it's still wet on the inside. It's still not cured. That was two
days on there and it's not cured yet on the inside because it wasn't open to air.
I'm gonna leave this to fully completely finish drying and then I'm gonna stick
it on my finger and wiggle my finger.
Chris: Is that kind of awesome? -Yeah! That's like totally awesome.
Rahhhh
Lorinda: That's amazing how it even wrinkles... Chris: I made it with wrinkles on the bottom
All right, that's it for now for my fun with Foam-Mo foam clay.
I really, really like this stuff. What it does well it does really
really well, and those two things are being flexible when it's cured and being
able to take mold shapes in molds. It doesn't work like normal clay - you can't
expect it to act like normal clay. It's more like working with a marshmallow than
working with clay. If you're a cosplayer and haven't tried out foam clay yet I
definitely recommend getting your hands on some and giving it a try because it's
super fun to play with and you'll probably find that it's indispensable.
You can get Foam-Mo right now on Amazon I'll put links in the description as
well as links to where you can find Cosplay Apprentice on the Internet.
Hey everyone thanks for watching! Let me know in the comments if you've used foam clay
before and what you did with it. I'd love to hear. See ya.
See it's flexes (voot voot sound)
And I forgot to mention the square I measured at the beginning lost about 13% of its
size. It is now 7/8 of an inch and it was 8/8 of an inch when I made it.
Chris: Go rahh! -Rahhh!