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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tewligan" data-source="post: 452981" data-attributes="member: 2191">Yeah, I've also found that a few hours lets things set enough that I can continue on with other parts.  Of course, that hasn't been a problem for me, since I'm quite the procrastinator - I started my guy several weeks ago, working on bits and pieces as time allows.  I wish I could stay motivated long enough to go at the rate that Drakmar is - it took you what, 3 days to do your monk, Drak?  Go, Speed Racer, go! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />A tip I picked up at a sculpting demo at Origins this year is to build a little oven kinda thing to speed up the curing process.  It's a coffee can with the bottom cut out, so you have a cylinder open at both ends.  You stand it on one end, put the figure inside, and cover the top with one of those metal dish-shaped light fixtures with a 40 watt appliance bulb.  Oh, and be sure not to use it on formica or any other surface that doesn't take well to being the floor of a miniature oven.  I THINK the guy was "cooking" the minis for about 20 minutes, but I wouldn't swear by it.  I haven't tried it myself, but it seemed to do the trick.Okay, time to wrap this post up so I can finish painting my own putty child.  Hopefully I'll have pics up tonight - of course, I've said that before, so who knows.  Fingers crossed...</blockquote>

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