Super sculpy question

[JustinBeckett]

Can you bake, super sculpy in the oven, when there is hockey tape, and aluminum foil/tin foil, as the base, so its under the super sculpy?

[slinky]

Of course you can.

Check out Smellybug's thread - it tells you everything you need to know from one of the best in the biz

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18287

[KoBold]

aluminum foil... yes. Keep in mind that if you didn't compact it very well, it has air trapped in it(actually there will be some air no matter what). If you completely cover it in clay you must make some holes or the sculpture may get a few blow outs.

hockey tape... I've never heard of anyone using this in a sculpture and I've never used it so don't even know what its made of, plastic, cloth?
Unless there is a reason not to, I'd say go for it this time(we learn most from our failures) but use somehting else next time. Floral tape is popular. It's a wax based tape, stretch it a little as you wrap to make the wax sticky and it'll adhere to itself. It doesn't stick to much of anything else except for itself.

[JustinBeckett]

hmm, yeah, aluminum foil, i wasnt to worried about, but the hockey tape, i would think it would melt or something, cause it has a sticky feeling to it, sorry im not sure what it is made out of, maybe a really sticky plastic type material, not sure. Its thick though. Hmm, yeah, i would fry this sculpture, but this is something i really dont wanna mess up.