Goo-Ers Toys Part 2 – Making the Toys

After all sketching and color scheme jobs is done (see previous post), now it’s time to make the toys.  The material I used to make my toys was Super Sculpey.  I shaped each toy one by one, and once I’m done with that, I put them all in the oven to make them hard.

After I took out the toys from the oven, I just let them aired and cooler overnight before I started painting.  Painting the toys were more frustrating than I expected it to be. I had to paint some surface, wait a while, then paint the exact same surface again and again to make the color visible.  And then body parts of my toys started falling off, because apparently I didn’t put enough wires to connect the head, ears, arms, etc.  I needed to glue some ‘falling’ body parts so many times, which is frustrating.  Also, sometimes when I cleared some areas which had glues on them, the paint came off and I had to re-painted.  It took me two days just to finish the painting process.

Below are some pictures I took when some body parts fell off, some pictures from the painting process, and also picture of my glue-gun, which I used to glue back falling pieces (click thumbnails to enlarge).

The next step to do after the painting is done is to spray the toys with Krylon, which would make the paint on the toys lasts longer, as well as making it glossy.   Krylon had strong smell that I couldn’t stand, and the lid is kind of hard to open. Anyway, I sprayed my toys with Krylon, waited until it’s fully dry (like 3 hours), and then sprayed it again for the last time.  The result is amazing!   My toys looked super glossy!  <3

Here are how they looked after they’re being sprayed and fully dry.  The pictures didn’t turn out that nice, but trust me, these toys look better in reality than they are in photos (click on thumbnails to enlarge).

To be continue in “Goo-Ers Toys Part 3 – The Packaging”…