Industrial Styling Clay

This was a little practice project to try things out before spending too much time on the Column Table if it wasn't going to work out.

See also: The Column Table!

	Here is the clay model all ready to be carved. I mounted it on a board so I could screw it down to keep it from moving around during carving.
Side by side in the duplicarver after carving. I will be cutting the background wood away when I finish it.
Close-up shows how rough the wood is after carving with a router bit. It is a night-and-day difference when using the Tornado bit.
Here it is with the carving finished before cutting the background wood away. All in all, I really like the way this clay works. It becomes very malleable with very little heat but hardens enough at room temperature to provide a usable pattern for tracing. I'm using a toaster oven for heating the blocks, a hair dryer for working large areas on the pattern and just my hot little hands when working fine details in.