I want to make small human figure,what material do i use?

Question

some plastic or clay.........

Something like a bobble head or an action figure

Answer 1

Clay will be the easiest thing to work with, and they make different clays that air-dry, or can be cooked in an oven. If you have use of a kiln you could use terra cotta clays. The only thing is, making moveable parts really isn't possible, or would be extremely difficult to work out, unless you were making a bobble head and made the body, then formed the clay up on the neck to a rounded point. You could make the head, then hollow it out, so that after the clay is hardened, you could just rest the head on top of the neck point. The head would also have to be pretty balanced in order to get it to jiggle a little.

Plastic toys are made from casting liquid plastic into moulds by injecting the plastic in. And to make one, it would be pretty costly. There's really no way to effectively make a plastic action figure without those machines.

Answer 2

Last christmas i made small people that looked like my kids for a dollhouse. My son was in a ceramics class so I had access to a kiln. Here is what I did -If you don't have clay and kiln get sculpey or fimo (bakeable clay) Sculpt a small head, hands up to the wrist, feet upto below the knees. On each of these poke a hole small enough for pipecleaner and groove it below the top of the arm, around the neck and top of leg. Once the peices are dry I made a simple stick man armiture with pipecleaner, i doubled it for strength. Superglue ends of pipecleaner armiture or 'skeleton' into the holes on each piece. This is the part i am bad at. I cut up one of my skin colored bras for a stretchy material and made a body pattern. I sewed the ends of say the arm first flipping it so I could sew the circle around the groove where the arm groove was. I super glued that too for security and stiched up the rest of the pattern, stuffed it with a bit of cotton. I can't sew but a lot of people can. I got clothes from barbie's kelly dolls and it came out awesome and work able. Sorry if this is way too complicated but there you go. If you didn't want posable sculpey is mostly plastic so you could just do a solid piece as well.

Answer 3

When I was at Folsom I made an entire chess set out of bar-soap. (Of course that was the white side...for the black pieces I had to use my own excrement.)